City Point, Virginia, ca. 1865.
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About this Collection
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.
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Other Civil War Holdings in the Prints & Photographs Division
Liljenquist Family Collection - Ambrotype, tintype, and other photographs
highlight Civil War soldiers and their families, both North and South.
Andrew J. Russell photographs - Captain Andrew. J. Russell, of the 141st New York
Infantry, was the first U.S. Army photographer. He documented railroad maintenance
and construction in Washington, D.C. and Virginia and military facilities in and
around Washington, D.C., Maryland, and in Virginia. View descriptions and images: LOT 4336,
LOT 9209, and LOT 11486.
Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War - 100 photographs presented
chronologically showing the major sites of conflict in Virginia, Maryland, and
Pennsylvania.
Civil War Drawings in Drawings (Documentary) - More than 1600 sketches by the "Special Artists" who drew
for the nation's illustrated newspapers.
Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs -- Includes more than
200 photographs from the Civil War era
