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- Title
- [Arthur Showell]
- Description
- Full-length studio portrait showing Showell, seated in a chair, and attired in a suit, tie, and spats. His legs are crossed, with one hand resting on his knee, and the other hand resting on the arm of the chair. A studio backdrop is visible in the background. Showell, a resident of South Philadelphia, worked as a laborer with the Adams Express Co. He also served in World War I in the 368th Infantry, part of the African American 92nd Infantry Division known as the "Buffalo Soldiers.", Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Brice C. Showell., Fragile condition.
- Date
- [ca. 1923]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - misc. - sitter - Showell [P.2015.1.1]
- Title
- [La Roche & Stahl florist shop, 1237 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Group portrait showing a line of eight men, including an African American employee and possibly co-owner Balthazar Stahl (third from right), standing in front of the flower store with large display windows marked "LaRoche & Stahl." Bouquets of flowers, floral wreathes, and other floral arrangements are displayed. A retracted awning with the name if the business adorns the building. A large garland of flowers is weaved across the awning frame. Potted plants line the base of the building and entryway near where the men stand. In the far left, the back of a horse traveling in the street near men patronizing a vendor's stand at the side of the flower store is visible. In the far right, signage for the adjacent business is partially visible. Florist Maximilian F. La Roche partnered with his brother-in-law Batlhazar Stahl in 1878. The partnership also managed several large greenhouses in Collingdale, Pa., which specialized in chrysanthemums and roses. Previously, La Roche had operated his own floral business in Philadelphia beginning circa 1876 when he purchased Brooker & Co. at 1319 Chestnut Street. La Roche removed his store to 1237 Chestnut in 1881. Stahl, who was in charge of the retail business, left the partnership circa 1898 when he started his own business at 27 South Eleventh Street., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date inferred from the attire of the men included in image.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Business - L [P.2008.11.6]
- Title
- [Robert Purvis]
- Description
- Bust profile portrait of the Philadelphia African American abolitionist during his later years. Shows Purvis with white hair, wearing mutton chops, and attired in a jacket and bow tie. Purvis was a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Library Company of Colored People, as well as a president of the Pennsylvania Anti-slavery Society and a vice-president of the woman's Suffrage Society., Title supplied by cataloger., Mount trimmed with the upper edge of three letters of the name of the publisher barely visible., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cabinet Cards - Sitter - P [P.2014.31]
- Title
- South
- Description
- Photographic reproduction of a racist caricature showing an African American boy as a visual metaphor for the South, i.e., the Confederate States. Shows a raggedly dress boy holding a banjo and the Emancipation Proclamation, while standing on the Confederate flag. Face of toddler after carte de visite photograph showing a bust-lenth portrait of an African American toddler titled "Young Africa, Or the Bone of Contention" issued by E. Anthony in 1862., One of two companion cartes de visite titled "North" and "South." LCP holds "North." [5780.F.52r], Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., See LCP copy "Bone of Contention" (cdv - Anthony [P.2002.5])., Duplicate listed in Early American Historical Auctions Catalog (April 2014) contains stamp on verso: A.M. Bailey agent for American Photography.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52e]
- Title
- [Lillie Showell]
- Description
- Full-length studio portrait showing Showell, seated in a chair containing an ornate back. The young woman wears glasses and is attired in a shirtwaist and long skirt. She rests one hand on the arm of the chair and the other on her knee. A studio backdrop is visible in the background. Family lore suggests Showell, born in Philadelphia, died from the flu during the 1917-1918 pandemic following World War I. Showell, younger sister of Arthur Showell (1894-1943), resided in Maryland as a child and young adult., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Brice C. Showell.
- Date
- [ca. 1917]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - misc. - sitter - Showell [P.2015.1.2]
- Title
- [Sarah E. Showell]
- Description
- Cameo portrait showing Showell from the bust up. She wears a shirtwaist and possibly a tie. Family lore suggests Showell died from the flu during the 1917-1918 pandemic following World War I. Showell, younger sister of Arthur Showell (1894-1943), was born and resided in Maryland as a child and young adult., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Brice C. Showell., Very worn condition.
- Date
- [ca. 1917]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - misc. - sitter - Showell [P.2015.1.3]
- Title
- Brice Leon Showell
- Description
- Class photograph showing a bust-length portrait of Showell as a teen. He wears a zippered pullover, collared shirt, and tie. Showell, the nephew of Arthur Showell (1894-1943), was born and resided in Maryland as a child and young adult., Title from manuscript note on verso., Printed above portrait: School Days., Printed below portrait: 1946-47., Gift of Brice C. Showell.
- Date
- [1946]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - misc. - sitter - Showell [P.2015.1.4]
- Title
- Facsimile of the Emancipation Proclamation
- Description
- Photographic reproduction of a lithographic facsimile of the original draft of the proclamation printed and sold as a fundraiser for the Soldiers Home of Chicago. Facsimile includes a portrait of Lincoln and patriotic vignette. Lincoln gave the draft to the organizers of the 1863 Northwestern Sanitary Fair to be sold at auction and then donated to the Chicago Historical Society. Draft was bought by Thomas B. Bryan and given to the Soldiers Home before its display at the historical society., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Genre & sentimental [5792.F.4j]
- Title
- [Satiric stereograph showing an African American dandy receiving a shoe shine from a white shoe shine boy]
- Description
- Stereograph, possibly published in London, depicting a scene satirizing race relations in America. Shows the dandy standing and with one foot on the boy's shoe shine box in front of a back drop depicted as a wall adorned with broadsides referencing abolition, slavery, and emancipation. The dandy is attired in striped and checkered pants, a jacket with tails, a ruffled shirt, and top hat. He holds a walking stick under one arm and a cigarette in his other hand. The boy kneels and shines the dandy's shoes with his shining supplies and tools by his box. Broadsides include a "playbill" reading "Adelphi. Tonight The White Slave. Octoroon Farce" and an advertisement for "Fast Clipper. Clyde. For New Orleans." Other posts read "No Slavery. Freedom" and "Great Meeting. Negro Emancipation. Poor Slaves.", Place of publication and date inferred from image content containing a reference to the "Octoroon" at the "Adelphi." Adelphi is a London theater where The Octoroon was performed 1861-1862., Grey mount with square corners., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., See similar visual trope "I say Billy, do you know why I'm doing this? Cause, I'm going to run for Congress soon!" [Political cartoons - 1863-13W, 8033.F.3]
- Date
- [ca. 1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. photo - Genre - African [P.2014.29]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes.Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- I wish I was in Dixie
- Description
- Photographic reproduction of a racist and anti-abolition caricature of Abraham Lincoln showing Lincoln as a banjo playing Southerner with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in his pocket., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.4f]
- Title
- D.P. Brown
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia lawyer, orator, dramatist, and a president of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society. Brown, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, sits facing slightly left., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date based on depicted age of the sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [ca. 1861]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINTS cdv portraits - sitter - Brown [(1)5750.F.59e]
- Title
- The negro on the brain
- Description
- Photographic reproduction of a racist woodcut caricature showing Abraham Lincoln wearing a naked African American shaped as a stovepipe hat. Contains photographic reproduction of several lines of verse in English and German on verso: A goodly difference does exist; Among the party that did call; There is among them many a [one?]; Conservative and true at heart; But there are others [who insist?]; The white man's freedom would deny; To place them on an equal footing; No matter what the cost may be; Something is for the negro done; The negro on the brain., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.1a]
- Title
- Rev. Thomas Brainerd
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia Presbyterian minister, abolitionist, and founder of the Union League. Brainerd, attired in a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, and a black jacket, looks at the viewer., Title from manuscript note on mount of (1)5750.F.55a., Date based on photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - sitter - B [(1)5750.F.55a&56c]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]