Civil War era paper soldiers collection. [graphic].
Title
Civil War era paper soldiers collection. [graphic].
Description
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Collection containing cut-outs of and uncut sheets of Civil War era paper soldiers. Soldiers depicted with guns, knapsacks, drums, on horseback, carrying flags, during charges, and on the march. Majority contain the name of the regiment, including Advance Guard, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Ab. Duryee (5th N.Y. Infantry); De Kalb Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol. Capt. Duysing (41st N.Y. Infantry); Firemen Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Ellsworth (11th N.Y. Infantry); Green Mountain Boys of Vermont (Vermont National Guard); Highland Guard 79th Regt. L, Col. Elliott; Irish Zouaves, Capt. Francis (69th N.Y. Infantry); National Zouaves N.Y. St. Vol., Col. McChesney (10th N.Y. Infantry); New York Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Hawkins (9th N.Y. Infantry); Polnish Legion, Col. Pratt (31st N.Y. Infantry); Ninth Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Stiles (83rd N.Y. Infantry); Steuben Girard N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Bendix (7th N.Y. Infantry); United Turner Rifles, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. M. Weber (20th N.Y. Infantry); 1st German Rifle Regt. NY. St. Vol. and 8th N.Y. German Rifles, Col. Blenker; 3d Reg. Missouri Voli, Col. F. Sigel; 6th Reg. of Massachusetts, Mass. St. Mil., Col. Jones; 6th Reg. Wilson's Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Wilson; 7th Regiment N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Lefferts; 55th Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil and French Zouaves, Col. Le Gal; 69th Regt. N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Corcoran; and 79th Regiment of N.Y. Also includes three uncut sheets of unidentified paper soldiers and a Revolutionary War paper soldier. Largest uncut sheet inscribed "N.Y. Zouaves" and published by New York firm Heerbrandt & Co. Three paper soldier wrappers published by New York firms McLoughlin Brother and G. Heerbrandt also included as part of the collection. Wrappers contain illustrations of soldiers, assembly instructions, and list of available series. Copies of soldiers illustrated on wrappers included in collection.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [5786.F.134a&c; (2)5786.F.5c; 182e; 183a-f; 184a, c, d; 186a-i; 187a, b, d, e; 188a-c, e-k; 189a, c-g; P.2005.2.10-11]
Zouave attacking Confederate soldier woodcut
Title
Zouave attacking Confederate soldier woodcut
Description
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.35b, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "a Union soldier in Zouave uniform, saber drawn, attacking a Confederate soldier."
Date
1861
Civil War Paper Soldiers Collection
Title
Civil War Paper Soldiers Collection
Description
Collection containing cut-outs of and uncut sheets of Civil War era paper soldiers. Soldiers depicted with guns, knapsacks, drums, on horseback, carrying flags, during charges, and on the march. Majority contain the name of the regiment, including Advance Guard, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Ab. Duryee (5th N.Y. Infantry); De Kalb Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol. Capt. Duysing (41st N.Y. Infantry); Firemen Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Ellsworth (11th N.Y. Infantry); Green Mountain Boys of Vermont (Vermont National Guard); Highland Guard 79th Regt. L, Col. Elliott; Irish Zouaves, Capt. Francis (69th N.Y. Infantry); National Zouaves N.Y. St. Vol., Col. McChesney (10th N.Y. Infantry); New York Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Hawkins (9th N.Y. Infantry); Polnish Legion, Col. Pratt (31st N.Y. Infantry); Ninth Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Stiles (83rd N.Y. Infantry); Steuben Girard N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Bendix (7th N.Y. Infantry); United Turner Rifles, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. M. Weber (20th N.Y. Infantry); 1st German Rifle Regt. NY. St. Vol. and 8th N.Y. German Rifles, Col. Blenker; 3d Reg. Missouri Voli, Col. F. Sigel; 6th Reg. of Massachusetts, Mass. St. Mil., Col. Jones; 6th Reg. Wilson's Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Wilson; 7th Regiment N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Lefferts; 55th Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil and French Zouaves, Col. Le Gal; 69th Regt. N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Corcoran; and 79th Regiment of N.Y. Also includes three uncut sheets of unidentified paper soldiers and a Revolutionary War paper soldier. Largest uncut sheet inscribed "N.Y. Zouaves" and published by New York firm Heerbrandt & Co. Three paper soldier wrappers published by New York firms McLoughlin Brother and G. Heerbrandt also included as part of the collection. Wrappers contain illustrations of soldiers, assembly instructions, and list of available series. Copies of soldiers illustrated on wrappers included in collection., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [5785.F; 5786.F.134a&c; (2)5786.F.5c; 83a; 183b-f; 184a, c, d; 186a-i; 187a-e; 188a-k; 189a, c-g; P.2005.2.10-11]
Illustrated description of the Battle of Gettysburg. By Holtzworth. [graphic] / Peck.
Title
Illustrated description of the Battle of Gettysburg. By Holtzworth. [graphic] / Peck.
Description
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Theatrical poster for the illustrated lecture by Civil War veteran and battlefield guide, William David Holtzworth, who toured throughout the United States decribing the Battle of Gettysburg. Contains a montage of scenes of military life including preparations for battle, wagon train caravans, drills, charges, removal of the dead, reconnaissance, and a soldier reading a letter from home by the campfire. Also contains an inset of a portrait of Holtzworth.
Date
[ca. 1866]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles [(2)5786.F.150a]
Officer with telescope woodcut
Title
Officer with telescope woodcut
Description
Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Southwark (1)5777.F.24c, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an officer standing, left arm raised, telescope in right hand."
Date
1861
Marines woodcut
Title
Marines woodcut
Description
Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.3a, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "two marines standing at attention."
Date
ca. 1861
Regimental parade woodcut
Title
Regimental parade woodcut
Description
Sample image scanned from: 3# Am 1862 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.7, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "a regimental parade, with Sargeant major leading, left arm raised, four drummer boys, and one mounted officer."
Date
1862
Soldiers standing at attention woodcut
Title
Soldiers standing at attention woodcut
Description
Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.62b, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "[x] soldiers, in groups of three, standing at attention (left or right facing)."
Date
1861
Soldiers marching woodcut
Title
Soldiers marching woodcut
Description
Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.10k, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "four soldiers marching in single file."
Date
1861
Scene of camp life. [graphic].
Title
Scene of camp life. [graphic].
Description
Create postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places & Events., Trimmed., Busy scene showing numerous activities occurring simultaneously at a military camp. At the center, generals make strategic plans under a canopy made from an American flag while soldiers drill on horseback, with cannons, and in lines around the officers near rows of tents. Also shows African American men and a child approaching a Zouave, soldiers rounding up horses, an infantryman leaning on a cannon, and soldiers standing on the grounds.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. GC - Civil War - Miltary Camps [5779.F.90f]
Four mounted officers woodcut
Title
Four mounted officers woodcut
Description
Sample image scanned from: Sm# Am 1861 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.7b, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "four mounted officers."
Date
1861-1865
Bann[er of] the sea. National song and chorus. [graphic].
Title
Bann[er of] the sea. National song and chorus. [graphic].
Description
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Trimmed., Sheet music cover showing two sailors hoisting an American flag over a cannon on the deck of a ship. A third sailor watches and cheers.
Date
[ca. 1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. GC - Civil War [(2)5786.F.146b]
P.9877.1
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)]
P.9877.24
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)]
The game of secession or sketches of the rebellion
Title
The game of secession or sketches of the rebellion Our army and navy for ever!
Description
Gameboard containing a serpent-like figure comprised of 135 spaces surrounded by captioned vignettes also used on Civil War envelopes. Pro-Union designs advance the player and anti-secession designs retard the player. Vignettes depict portraits of prominent war figures; views of forts, soldiers, and preparations for battle; Union and Confederate flags; allegorical figures; and satiric and racist depictions of Confederates. Includes President Abraham Lincoln; Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Gen. Winfield Scott, Maj-Gen. George B. McClellan, Comm. S.F. Dupont, Confederate Gen. Beauregard; bombardment of Fort Sumter; Philadelphia Navy Yard; liberty; Columbia; and Confederate soldiers on retreat; riding a enslaved African American man, and protected by bales of cotton. "Directions" to play the game printed in the lower left corner. Flags and shields adorn the borders., Title from item., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to George McClellan. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Reproduced in Erika Piola, "For the millions: Civil War stationery for women and children in the McAllister Collection at the Library Company of Philadelphia," The Ephemera journal 13 (2010), [39]., RVCDC, 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
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Games [5793.F.44]
Civil War scrapbook of portraits. [graphic].
Title
Civil War scrapbook of portraits
Description
Scrapbook containing portraiture of Civil War military and political figures, including cartes de visite, card portraits, portrait prints, group portraits, photo montages, caricatures and newspaper clippings. Group portraits include the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln; lithographs and cartes de viste titled "The Defenders of Our Union" portraying the generals of the Union Army; and cartes de visite views at Camp Winfield Scott, near Yorktown on May 1-2, 1862 showing Gen Van Vliet and friends, General Marcy and friends, and officers servants. Also contains several unidentified cartes de visite portraits of Union military personnel; a 1904 card from the Massachusetts Military Order of the Loyal Legion requesting war-time portraits; and advertisements for portrait engravers and publishers, J.C Buttre, Wm. S. & A. Martien, L. Prang & Co., and A. Winch. Buttre advertisement also contains a manuscript note by Buttre to J.A. McAllister dated January 31, 1862 requesting a likeness of Secretary Stanton., Sitters include Nathaniel Banks, Louis Blenker, Ambrose Burnside, John C. Fremont, George McClellan, Winfield Scott, John Sedgwick, William Henry Seward, Philip H. Sheridan, William T. Sherman, Franz Sigel, Edward Stanton, Edwin V. Sumner, George Sykes, George H. Thomas, James S. Wadsworth, Alexander Webb, Gideon Welles, Charles Wilkes, James H. Wilson, Isaac J. Wistar, and Fernando Wood., Various artists and photographers including Barnard & Gibson, James Black, Mathew Brady, John Chester Buttre, Washington Lafayette Germon, Frederick Gutekunst, James E. McClees, George E. Perine, A.H. Ritchie, and John Sartain, Various publishers including John Dainty, E. & H.T. Anthony, J.A. Lowell & Co., J.E. Tilton & Co., L. Prang & Co, McAllister & Brother, and Wm. S. & A. Martien., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
ca. 1861-1904
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - McAllister Civil War scrapbook of portraits [(2)5775.F]
[Civil War miscellanies] [graphic]
Title
[Civil War miscellanies]
Description
Collection of prints and ephemera, predominantly depicting Elmer Ellsworth, and originally part of a scrapbook of miscellaneous Civil War materials collected by John A. McAllister. Includes portrait prints, lettersheets, and illustrations depicting Ellsworth or his death, as well as a memorial work containing symbols of patriotism and mourning. Collection also contains lettersheets illustrated with the Union flag, and the song “America” bordered by state seals; a full-length portrait of General Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union general killed during the war; and memorial portrait of Sen. Edward D. Baker killed at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff., Various artists, engravers, and printers, including C. Y. Haynes, J. Magee, A. B. Walter, and Alonzo Chappel., Various publishers, including J. Dainty, Johnson, Fry & Co., and J. W. Barber., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Miscellanies., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1861-1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Civil War -Miscellanies [5785.F]
Jeff. Davis in prison. [graphic].
Title
Jeff . Davis in prison
Description
Anti-Davis cartoon invoking the travesties at Confederate war prisons to satirize the incarcerated former Confederate president as a pompous, sniveling ingrate. Shows Davis, attired in a suit, and his feet shackled, in his cell, in front of a table containing his modest meal and complaining to the prison doctor. He bemoans his being unaccustomed to such living and that "you must order some more healthy food, or I shall starve to death." The doctor responds it is "good healthy food, such as our soldiers are fed on" and that their recent achievements prove it is "tolerably healthy." In the left, an older African American man cook, portrayed in racist caricature, announces in the vernacular "Massa Jeff! de dinner is ready." Two Union soldiers retort and reply "It's unhealthy is it! You didn't think that a pint of cornmeal was unhealthy when we were at Andersonville." The other angrily remembers "Rotten sowbelly and mouldy hard tacks was considered 'healthy food' when I was in "Libby" and Belle Island., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Gibson & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio., Purchase 2008., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-Jef [P.2008.5.1]
Jeff. Davis in prison.
Title
Jeff . Davis in prison
Description
Anti-Davis cartoon invoking the travesties at Confederate war prisons to satirize the incarcerated former Confederate president as a pompous, sniveling ingrate. Shows Davis, attired in a suit, and his feet shackled, in his cell, in front of a table containing his modest meal and complaining to the prison doctor. He bemoans his being unaccustomed to such living and that "you must order some more healthy food, or I shall starve to death." The doctor responds it is "good healthy food, such as our soldiers are fed on" and that their recent achievements prove it is "tolerably healthy." In the left, an older African American man cook, portrayed in racist caricature, announces in the vernacular "Massa Jeff! de dinner is ready." Two Union soldiers retort and reply "It's unhealthy is it! You didn't think that a pint of cornmeal was unhealthy when we were at Andersonville." The other angrily remembers "Rotten sowbelly and mouldy hard tacks was considered 'healthy food' when I was in "Libby" and Belle Island., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Gibson & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio., Purchase 2008., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-Jef [P.2008.5.1]
Joseph Hooker [graphic].
Title
Joseph Hooker
Description
Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the Union General known as "Fighting Joe" Hooker. Shows Hooker as a pugilist., Title from manuscript note on mount: Jos. Hooker., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Trimmed., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.7c]
Kill-Patrick suppressing the riot. [graphic].
Title
Kill-Patrick suppressing the riot
Description
Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the Union General, Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, nicknamed "Kill Cavalry" as a result of the high casualty rate of the men under his command. Shows Judson astride a horse as he impales a caricatured figure of an Irishman with a sword., Unmounted carte de visite., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.8c]
Semmes motto "I am here" [graphic].
Title
Semmes motto "I am here"
Description
Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the Confederate naval officer, Raphael Semmes, who captained the commerce raider CSS Alabama. Shows Semmes as a pirate., Unmounted carte de visite., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.18a]
"We fights mit Sigel" [graphic].
Title
"We fights mit Sigel"
Description
Photographic reproduction of a caricature satirizing German-American involvement during the Civil War showing German-born military commander Franz Sigel. Shows Sigel with the body of a beer stein astride a charging horse depicted as a "Lager Beer" keg. Also shows soldiers depicted as beer mugs running beside Sigel., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Date
[ca. 1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdvs - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2282.49]
P.9877.14
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)]
P.9877.15
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)]
P.9877.16
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)]
P.9877.17
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)]
(11)1540.F.11b
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)]
(11)1540.F.21c
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)]
(11)1540.F.21d
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)]
(11)1540.F.22d
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)]
(12)1540.F.4c
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)]
5779.F.2c
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)]
5779.F.2f
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)]
5779.F.2i
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)]
P.9877.20
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)]
P.9877.21
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)]
P.9877.22
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)]
P.9877.23
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)]
P.9877.25
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)]
P.9877.26
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)]
P.9877.27
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)]
P.9877.28
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)]
P.9877.29
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)]
P.9877.2
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)]
P.9877.3
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)]
P.9877.4
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)]
5779.F.4i
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)]
5779.F.4j
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)]
5779.F.4n
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)]

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