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Captions. English. Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents ... Library of Congress Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs between 1863 ...
The American Civil War was the first war in history whose intimate reality would be brought home to the public, not only in newspaper depictions, album cards and cartes-de-visite, but in a popular new 3D format called a "stereograph," "stereocard" or "stereoview." Millions of these cards were produced and purchased by a public eager to ...
It is one of the most famous representations of the American Civil War. [1] Published in the first American anthology of photographs, Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, in 1865, it is part of a series of ten photographic plates of the Battle of Gettysburg, eight of which were taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. [2] [3]
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]
Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. is a collection of photographs and ephemera related to the American Civil War. The bulk of the collection comprises ambrotypes , tintypes , and cartes de visite of individual soldiers and officers from both sides of the conflict.
English: Title: Louisa May Alcott, writer, abolitionist, and Civil War nurse] / Warren's Portraits, 465 Washington St., Boston Abstract/medium: 1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (carte de visite format)
Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863. Part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01451 (digital file from original neg. of left half) LC-DIG-cwpb-01450 (digital file from original neg. of right half) LC-B8171-2288 (b&w film copy neg.)
Purchased from: Ross J. Kelbaugh: 19th and 20th Century Photographs & Militaria, Baltimore, Md., 2008. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Published in: Kelbuagh, Ross J. The Civil War in Maryland: Rare photographs from the collections of the Maryland Historical Society and its members.