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10 lis 2021 · Rare and old photographic collection from the American Civil War of 1861-1865. The war that shaped the United States of America.
A significant later effort to collect and publish photos of the American Civil War in an almost duplicate manner as the 1911 release, was the National Historical Society's 2,768-page The Image of War, 1861–1865 in six volumes under the overall auspices of renowned Civil War historians William C. Davis and Bell I. Wiley as senior editors. [3] The six, 464-496 page each, volume collection was ...
10 lis 2021 · The American Civil War in pictures (part 3), 1861-1865. Although photography was still in its infancy, war correspondents produced thousands of images, bringing the harsh realities of the frontlines to those on the home front in a new and visceral way.
Date Created/Published: ca. 1860-1960, bulk 1861-1865. Medium: ca. 7,200 photographs + 4 illustrations. Summary: Images depict military personnel and facilities, primarily from a Union perspective. Includes the main Eastern theater, the federal navy and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, the war in the West ...
10 lis 2021 · The American Civil War in pictures (part 3), 1861-1865. Photographer Timothy H. O’Sullivan took this photo, one half of a stereo view of Alfred R. Waud, artist of Harper’s Weekly, while he sketched on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in July of 1863.
When the early events of the Civil War suggested no immediate resolution of the conflict, O’Sullivan abandoned the Washington, D.C., gallery for four years in the field. He worked constantly, producing outstanding views of bridges, encampments, hospitals, and battlefields that he sent back to Washington, first to Brady and then to Alexander ...
Civil war photographs, -1865 Library of Congress. to 1960, Bulk 1861 to 1865. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <lccn.loc.gov/94837685>. ca. 7,200 photographs + 4 illustrations. | Images depict military personnel and facilities, primarily from a Union perspective.
