Civil War Photos. Select Audiovisual Records National Archives and Records AdministrationWashington, DC 20408 Engineers of the 8th N.Y.
State Militia, 1861. No. Ill-B-499. Cropped from Select List # 5.View larger image Contents: The War Between the States was the first large and prolonged conflict recorded by photography. The name Mathew B. The pictures listed in this publication are in the Still Picture Branch of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Photographs included in this leaflet have been listed under one of four main headings: activities, places, portraits, and Lincoln's assassination. At the end of this leaflet, there are instructions for ordering photographs. Sandra Nickles and Joe D. Activities Army Life. Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page. All images are digitized | All jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All This online collection provides access to about 7,000 different views and portraits made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and its immediate aftermath.
The images represent the original glass plate negatives made under the supervision of Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner as well as the photographic prints in the Civil War photographs file in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room. These negatives and prints are sometimes referred to as the Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eaton Collection to indicate the previous owners. The Library purchased the negatives in 1943. Search tip for this collection: Try putting in very few search terms, particularly when searching for people (for example, try just the person's last name).
Many additional Civil War images are in other collections, including drawings, prints, and photograph albums to name a few. View a slide show of samples. Patriotism Through the Mail: Civil War-Illustrated Envelopes. The Capitol building in Nashville, Tennessee, 1864, WHI 79131 George Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign This collection comprises 61 black-and-white photographs taken and printed by Civil War-era photographer George N.
Barnard. Barnard held the post of official photographer for the United States Army, Division of the Mississippi, and traveled with Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman during his Atlanta Campaign and his March to the Sea in 1864. Original photographs from the Civil War. Uniongens2. The Confederate Soldier of Fort Mahone - Adolphus Confederate Uniforms offers Frederick R. Adolphus' scholarly research, articles, and his book Imported Confederate Uniforms of Peter Tait & Co...as well as large images with construction detail.
The Library of Congress Pageturner. Call_number:(006549120) Search Results. Civil War Photos. Photographs and Pictures Collection. Search Results: "j.p.morgan civil war collection" - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Miscellaneous document sources — Daily Observations from The Civil War. Painting by Conrad Wise Chapman.
“Shows mail boat going from one fort to the other. A good view of Fort Moultrie can be had from this point. A shell would be thrown over the fort about every five minutes.” – Conrad Wise Chapman, 1898 Painting by Conrad Wise Chapman. (no date provided) “This was an important battery. “This battery was nearer to the enemy than any of the others, and was very far out. This battery was on James Island; of the two figures on horesback, one was an officer of the regular artillery, and one an officer of the regular infantry of the Confederate States. – Conrad Wise Chapman, 1898. “This battery was placed very far out and therefore occupied a more than ordinarily dangerous position, attendant with much risk.” – Conrad Wise Chapman, 1898 “Shows Morris Island, and one of the batteries on James Island, which was opposite Sullivan’s Island.
“This scene was sketched by the artist from the top of St. Close-up crop: sixth-plate ambrotype; 9.0 x 8.0 cm (case) U. S. Civil War Photographs - Gettysburg. In the text, the icon is a link to the definition of the word it marks.
Use your browser's "back" button to return to this page. The battle of Gettysburg, Pa. July 3d. 1863. Published by Currier & Ives [1863?]. A Union gun and gunners that repulsed Pickett's charge 173Regiment marching down a street in Gettysburg, Pa, Civil War Photos and Images. USA Civil War Photographs. Civil War Photos. Select Audiovisual Records National Archives and Records AdministrationWashington, DC 20408.
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