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- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
- Title
- Civil War 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]
- Title
- Civil War scrapbook of envelopes and portraits
- Description
- Scrapbook containing portraiture, predominately patriotic envelopes, of Civil War military and political figures. Majority of the envelopes issued by prolific New York publisher Charles Magnus, with several from his series "Generals of the Potomac Army" and "Heroes of Successful Expeditions." Also contains portrait prints, stationery, and non-portrait and ephemera materials, including newspaper clippings, manuscript letters, autographs, playbills, an illustrated songsheet, and a performance program. Several of the portrait prints were originally published in the 1861-1863 volumes of "The Rebellion Record" edited by Frank Moore., Majority of clippings detail the controversial death and funeral of Col. Edward D. Baker. Manuscript letters include correspondence from 28th PA Regt. Beck Band musician, Samuel A. Murray to John McAllister, Jr. about collecting Southern Civil War relics and letters. Also includes W.S. Hancock correspondence denying a citizen's pass to cross military lines. Songsheet, performance program, and majority of playbills relate to special performances, including an 1862 Washington birthday commemorative program, at the 28th Pennsylvania Regiment military camp. Ephemera materials include a facsimile of the correspondence from General Grant to General Buckner for unconditional surrender following the Battle of Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862 and plain envelope covers inscribed by Col. Frank P. Blair and General Henry Halleck (General-in-Chief). Other materials include a print and newspaper clipping showing the Merrimac and Monitor; a cartoon satirizing supporters of defeated 1860 Constitutional Unionist presidential nominee John Bell; a Ulysses S. Grant family portrait photomechanical reproduction from the Photo History of the Civil War (1910); and the autographs of generals John W. Geary, Samuel P. Heintzelman, and William S. Rosencrans. Also contains a small number of non-Civil War era items, including an A. & J.B. Bartholomew trade card promoting Grant for president and an invitation to an 1879 Philadelphia City Council reception for former President Grant., Portraiture predominately depicts Edward Dickinson Baker; Nathaniel Prentiss Banks; John Bell; Louis Blenker, John C. Breckinridge; Ambrose Everett Burnside; Michael Corcoran; Samuel Ryan Curtis; Stephen Douglas; Samuel Du Pont; David Glasgow Farragut; Andrew H. Foote; John Geary; Ulysses S. Grant; Henry W. Halleck; Winfield Scott Hancock; Samuel P. Heintzelman; David Hunter; Nathaniel Lyon; Peter Lyle, Irvin McDowell; James A. Mulligan; Joshua Thomas Owen; Robert Patterson; John Pope; Benjamin M. Prentiss; Jesse Lee Reno; William S. Rosecrans; Richard Rush; Thomas W. Sherman; William T. Sherman; James Shields; Silas H. Stringham; Edwin V. Sumner; and James S. Wadsworth., Various artists and photographers including Edward Anthony, Mathew Brady, John Henry Bufford, John Chester Buttre, Alonzo Chappel, Washington Lafayette Germon, Herline & Hensel, James Magee, Charles Magnus, and George E. Perine., Various publishers and distributors including John Dainty, James Gates, Harbach & Brother, Oscar H. Harpel, Franklin Hedge, Johnson & Fry, and Wm. S. & A. Martien., Disbound and trimmed scrapbook pages re-housed in folders., Oversize 1893 color lithograph "General Grant's Farewell Address to the Union Army in the Field 1865" removed to flat storage, see *GC-Grant [5758.F.69a]., Select link below for complete inventory of sitters., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- ca. 1860-1910
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Print Room Annex - McAllister [(7)5785.F], http://www.librarycompany.org/FindingAids/McAllister(7)5785.F.pdf