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American Civil War (1861-1865)
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Mathew Brady's Studio, 1862, Brady Gallery photographic team for the Civil War, Berlin, Maryland, Albumen print, Private collection of Larry West, LL/8597
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1862, 28 October, Brady Gallery photographic team for the Civil War, Berlin, Maryland, Albumen print, Source requested, LL/43005
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, n.d., View of the Petersburg Gas Works, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 81], Albumen print, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/11462
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, n.d., View of the Petersburg Gas Works [Detail], [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 81], Albumen print, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/11463
Thomas C. Roche, 1861-1865 (ca), Civil War Photographers Van, Photograph, detail, Private collection of Clark and Joan Worswick, LL/50715
Alexander Gardner, n.d., Photography wagon, with Alexander Gardiner seated in the middle, Albumen print, This work is out of copyright, LL/35273
Samuel A. Cooley, 1863 (ca), Sam Cooley - photographer, employees, and working apparatus, Albumen print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/43000
Samuel A. Cooley, n.d., Sam A. Cooley, Field Dark-Room, Albumen print, This work is out of copyright, LL/35274
Samuel A. Cooley, 1864, Savannah, Georgia (vicinity). View of Fort McAllister and Cooley's photographic tent, 1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/36097
Unidentified photographer, 1862, 4 July, Our Photographer, Manassas, VA, Albumen print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42986
Unidentified photographer, 1864 (ca), Brady's photo outfit in front of Petersburg, VA, Albumen print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42987
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1862, 8-9 August, Andrew J. Russell and others having breakfast, Cedar Mountain, VA, Albumen print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42989
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1862, New bridge built by McDowell's engineers, Bull Run, VA, Albumen print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42991
George N. Barnard, 1862, March, Sudley Church on hill, and the remains of the Sudley Sulphur Spring house on the rigfht, Bull Run Creek, Cathapin Run, VA, Albumen print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42994
Unidentified photographer, 1864-1865, Photographer's wagon and developing tent, Cold Harbor VA, Albumen print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42998
Unidentified photographer, 1864, Photographer, wagon, observation tower, Bermuda Hundred, VA, Albumen print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42999
Alexander Gardner, 1863, Group military telegraph operators, HQ, Army of the Potomac, Bealton, VA, Albumen print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/43001
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1863, August, Group at tent and wagon of the New York Herald, Bealton, VA, Albumen print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/43002
David Knox, 1864-1865, Military Telegraph battery wagon, HQ, Army of the Potomac, Petersburg VA, Albumen print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/43003
Alexander Edouart, 1865-1867, Charley, Liza, and Mike Oalente, Carte de visite, Private collection of Laddy Kite, LL/35975
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, [Unidentified young soldier in Confederate shell jacket, Hardee hat with Mounted Rifles insignia and plume with canteen and cup], Tintype, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/39564
Unidentified photographer, 1863-1865, [Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters], Tintype, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/39565
Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., Armed Rhode Island Civil War Duo, Ambrotype, 1/4 plate, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/8860
A.D. Hopper (Bleeker St., NY.), n.d., Civil War soldier with great American flag and 1851 Navy Colt Third Model (long barrel), Ambrotype, 1/6 plate, tinted, Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics, LL/37874
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Civil War soldier with book, Union case, Tintype, 1/9 plate, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/9051
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, Drummer Boy in Uniform, Tintype, 1/6 plate, Charles Schwartz Ltd, LL/9073
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Untitled, Tintype, Source requested, LL/149
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Untitled, Tintype, Source requested, LL/77
Sunbeam Gallery (Rochester, NY), 1860s (ca), A uniformed soldier, Tintype, on carte de visite, Private collection of Laddy Kite, LL/35977
Unidentified photographer, 1863-1865, Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform and Company B, 103rd Regiment forage cap with bayonet and scabbard in front of painted backdrop showing landscape with river, Tintype, 1/4 plate, hand-coloured, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42087
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with revolver in holster in front of painted backdrop showing military camp, Tintype, 1/4 plate, hand-coloured, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42088
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with sword in front of painted backdrop showing military camp scene, Tintype, 1/6 plate, hand-coloured, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42089
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, Five unidentified soldiers in Union uniform of the 6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia outfitted with Enfield muskets in front of encampment, Tintype, 1/4 plate, hand-coloured, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42079
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with musket, bayonet, and cartridge box, Tintype, 1/6 plate, hand-coloured, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42082
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and officer hat cords, Tintype, gem, hand-coloured, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42083
Unidentified photographer, 1860-1870, Two unidentified young women wearing printed dresses and necklaces in front of painted backdrop showing plantation, Ambrotype, 1/6 plate, hand-coloured, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42084
Unidentified photographer, 1862 (ca), Untitled [Taylor Brothers, Privates Emzy Taylor (left) and G. M. Taylor, Company E, "Lone Star Guards" 4th Texas Infantry Regiment, Hood's Brigade, Confederate States Army], Tintype, 1/2 plate, DeGolyer Library, South Methodist University - SMU, LL/38158
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, Unidentified soldier in Union sergeant's frock coat and forage cap with unidentified woman in dress and hat with veil, Tintype, 1/4 plate, hand-coloured, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42085
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with greatcoat in front of American flag, Ambrotype, 1/6 plate, hand-coloured, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42086
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1861-1865, Portrait of a Union soldier, Carte de visite, Private collection, LL/38770
Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., Tinted carte de visite of American Civil War soldier before painted backdrop, Carte de visite, hand-tinted, Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics, LL/6248
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, Col. David B. Birney [Union Army in the American Civil War], Carte de visite, Private collection, LL/38778
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1861-1865, Soldiers‘ Photographs at United States Post Office Dead Letter Office, Carte de visites, tintypes, George Eastman Museum, LL/33139
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, General Stonewall Jackson, Carte de visite, retouched, Private collection, LL/38787
Charles DeForest Fredricks, n.d., Civil War General Banks, Carte de visite, Stereographica - Antique Photographica, LL/11253
Frederick Gutekunst, 1863, 25 April (published), Admiral Samuel F. Dupont, Commanding the Fleet off Charleston, Wood-engraved title-page plate, Brown University Library, Special Collections, LL/43262
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1860, 27 February, Abraham Lincoln (Without beard), Carte de visite, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/10892
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1861-1865 (ca), Civil War photograph album, Photograph album, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/6673
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1861-1865 (ca), Civil War photograph album - Single page, Album page, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/6674
Frederick Gutekunst, 1861-1865 (ca), Civil War photograph album - McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885, Album photograph, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/6675
Frederick Gutekunst, 1861-1865, Untitled [The Devil holding portraits of leading Southern figures during the American Civil War], Carte de visite, Private collection, LL/38774
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1860-1870, Composite, Wet collodion glass negative, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/9990
Alexander Gardner, 1862, October, President Lincoln on Battlefield of Antietam, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 23], Albumen print, Lee Gallery, LL/12440
Alexander Gardner, 1862, October, Guides to the Army of the Potomac, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 28], Albumen print, Lee Gallery, LL/12694
Alexander Gardner, 1862, November, What do I Want, John Henry, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 27], Albumen print, Lee Gallery, LL/12693
Alexander Gardner, 1860s (ca), Scene in Pleasant Valley, MD, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 24], Albumen print, Lee Gallery, LL/12692
Alexander Gardner, 1863, June, Studying the Art of War, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 45], Albumen print, Lee Gallery, LL/12696
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1861-1865, Illustrations of Camp Life, Carte de visite, Private collection of Laddy Kite, LL/35973
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1864, 21 May (event), 730. General Grant's Council of War., [1861 The War For the Union 1865 / 1861 Photographic War History 1865], Stereoview, NYPL - New York Public Library, LL/39174
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1864, 21 May (event), Council of war near Massaponax Church, Va., Albumen print, National Archives and Records Administration, LL/39178
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1864, 21 May (event), A council of war at Massaponax Church, VA., 21st May, 1864. Gen. Grant and Meade, Asst. Sec. of War, Dana, and their staff officers., Stereoview, New York Historical Society, LL/39176
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1864, 21 May (event), A council of war at Massaponax Church, VA., 21st May, 1864. Gen. Grant and Meade, Asst. Sec. of War, Dana, and their staff officers., Stereoview, right, New York Historical Society, LL/39177
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1864, 21 May (event), The war in Virginia Lieutenant General Grant in a council of war at Massaponax Church, Graphic, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/39175
1864, 21 May (event) 1887, June (published), General Grant and staff at Bethesda Church; General Grant is sitting with his back to the smaller tree. (from a war-time photograph.), Magazine illustration, NYPL - New York Public Library, LL/39136
J.H. Norman, 1865 (ca), Untitled [Tinted Blockade runner with flag], Carte de visite, hand-tinted, detail, DeGolyer Library, South Methodist University - SMU, LL/38151
Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., #2059 Cannon on the Battlefield of Bull Run, [Army of the Potomac], Stereocard, Jefferson Stereoptics, LL/11708
Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., 746. A Canvas Pontoon Bridge (Detail), Stereocard, Jefferson Stereoptics, LL/11703
Taylor & Huntington, 1864, 746. A Canvas Pontoon Bridge (Back of card), Stereocard, Jefferson Stereoptics, LL/11704
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., n.d., Pontoon Bridge on the James River, Richmond, Va., Stereocard, Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs, LL/11642
Thomas C. Roche, 1865, [Depot Field Hospital, City Point, Virginia], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40585
McPherson and Oliver, 1862, 20 July, Ironclad gunboat, "Essex", Carte de visite, Private collection of Laddy Kite, LL/35976
McPherson and Oliver, n.d., Fort Morgan, Alabama, Carte de visite, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/11354
McPherson and Oliver, n.d., Fort Morgan, Alabama, Carte de visite, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/11355
, 1862, September, Maryland, Antietam Bridge, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 19], Albumen print, National Archives and Records Administration, LL/1632
, 1863, July, Pennsylvania, Gettysburg. the Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 41], Albumen print, National Archives and Records Administration, LL/1634
George N. Barnard, 1864, 24 July, Georgia, Atlanta Battlefield, July 22, 1864 [Retouched], Retouched composite, National Archives and Records Administration, LL/8090
George N. Barnard, 1862-1865 (ca), Georgia, Atlanta, Confederate works in front of [Retouched], Retouched composite, National Archives and Records Administration, LL/8092
James Gardner, 1864, December, Ruins of Norfolk Navy Yard, VA, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 18], Albumen print, Lee Gallery, LL/12438
Barnard & Gibson, 1862, March, Ruins at Manassas Junction, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 10], Albumen print, Lee Gallery, LL/12437
Alexander Gardner, 1865, April, Ruins of Arsenal, Richmond, VA, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 91], Albumen print, Lee Gallery, LL/12698
Alexander Gardner, 1865, Ruins of Petersburg and Richmond Railroad Bridge, Across the James, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 88], Albumen print, Lee Gallery, LL/12697
A.J. Russell, 1864 (ca), Untitled [Apparatus for wrecking track used during Civil War and invented by E.C. Smead], Albumen print, DeGolyer Library, South Methodist University - SMU, LL/38147
Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., Photographic History - the War for the Union #3183 (Anthony yellow mount), Stereocard, Jefferson Stereoptics, LL/11705
Alexander Gardner, 1863, July, A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 40], Albumen print, Lee Gallery, LL/12695
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., 1865, 2 April (taken) 1870-1874 (ca, published), A dead Confederate soldier as he lay in the trenches of F[ort Mahone] called by the soldiers "Fort [Damnation]", [The War of the Union. Photographic History.], Negative, safety film, Library of Virginia - State Library and Archive, LL/36208
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1865 (ca), C.S. soldier killed in the trenches, at the storming of Petersburgh [sic], Va., April The marks and spots on his face, are blood issuing from his mouth and nose. The wound is in the head, caused by a fragment of shell., Stereocard, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/9991
Alexander Gardner, 1862, September, Is This Death - Antietam Battlefield, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40600
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., n.d., No. 2522. Soldiers' Graves, near the General Hospital, City Point, Va., [War Views], Stereoview, Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics, LL/37850
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., n.d., No. 2522. Soldiers' Graves, near the General Hospital, City Point, Va., [War Views], Stereoview, detail, Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics, LL/37851
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1870, [Unidentified girl in mourning dress holding framed photograph of her father as a cavalryman with sword and Hardee hat], Tintype, 1/6th plate, hand-coloured, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/39566
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, [Unidentified woman wearing mourning brooch and displaying framed image of unidentifed soldier], Tintype, 1/6th plate, hand-coloured, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/39567
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, [Francis Edwin Brownell of Company A, 11th New York Infantry Regiment, in uniform; portrait set in memorial badge of black silk], Tintype, gem, in mourning badge, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/42078
Alexander Gardner, 1865-1866, Album cover for "Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1", Album cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40583
George N. Barnard, 1864-1865, Sherman and his Generals, [Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign], Albumen silver print, SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LL/42159
George N. Barnard, 1864-1865, Buzzard Roost, [Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign], Albumen silver print, SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LL/42160
George N. Barnard, 1864-1865, Lu-La-Lake, Lookout Mountain, [Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign], Albumen silver print, SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LL/42161
George N. Barnard, 1864-1865, The Battlefield of Peach Tree Creek, [Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign], Albumen silver print, SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LL/42162
George N. Barnard, 1864-1865, Ruins in Columbia, South Carolina, [Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign], Albumen silver print, SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LL/42163
George N. Barnard, 1864-1865, Interior View of Fort Sumter, [Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign], Albumen silver print, SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LL/42164
George N. Barnard, 1864-1865, Ruins of the Pinckney Mansion, Charleston, [Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign], Albumen silver print, SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LL/42165
George N. Barnard, 1864-1865, Destruction of Hood's Ordnance Train, [Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign], Albumen silver print, SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LL/42167
George N. Barnard, 1864-1865, Rebel Works in front of Atlanta, No. 1, [Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign], Albumen silver print, SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LL/42168
Unidentified photographer, 1897, 20 September, Survivors of Company C, 118th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers 35 years after battle fought on September 20, 1862, Albumen print, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, LL/44551
1915, Scene from "Birth of a Nation" (directed by D.W. Griffith), Movie frame, Source requested, LL/33956
1915, Scene from "Birth of a Nation" (directed by D.W. Griffith), A southern gentleman, Ben Cameron, holds a cased photograph of Elsie Stoneman., Movie frame, Source requested, LL/33957
1915, Scene from "Birth of a Nation" (directed by D.W. Griffith), A card explaining the story., Movie frame, Source requested, LL/33958
1915, Scene from "Birth of a Nation" (directed by D.W. Griffith), A cased photograph showing Elsie Stoneman, Movie frame, Source requested, LL/33959
1915, Scene from "Birth of a Nation" (directed by D.W. Griffith), A southern gentleman, Ben Cameron, holds a cased photograph of Elsie Stoneman., Movie frame, Source requested, LL/33960
1915, Scene from "Birth of a Nation" (directed by D.W. Griffith), A southern gentleman, Ben Cameron, in hospital shows a cased portrait of Elsie Stoneman to her., Movie frame, Source requested, LL/33961
   
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