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Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 – December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who immigrated to the United States in 1856, where he began to work full-time in that profession. He is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War , U.S. President Abraham Lincoln , and of the conspirators and the execution of the participants ...
Alexander Gardner worked as a staff photographer for General George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac. O'Sullivan became a photographer attached to the topographical engineers, copying maps and plans and taking photographs in his spare time. He and Gardner followed the Union forces from November 1861 to April 1862. [9] [10]
Alexander Gardner Washington, D.C. photographic print: albumen silver Library of Congress Cropped portion of Lincoln delivering his second inaugural address. There are four known photos taken by Alexander Gardner of Lincoln during the inauguration. Lincoln stands in the center, with papers in his hand, on the east front of the United States ...
Maker: Alexander Gardner (Scottish, 1821 - 1882) Title: Execution of Lincoln Assassination Conspirators, Conspirators' graves. Date: July 7, 1865 Medium: albumen print Dimensions: Image: 17.9 x 24.4 cm, Mount: 27 x 34.5 cm George Eastman House Collection
Alexander Gardner, 1856 self-portrait. Alexander Gardner (1821–1882) was born in Paisley, Scotland. He became an apprentice silversmith jeweller at the age of fourteen. Soon, Gardner found out that his interests and talents lay in finance and journalism. When he was twenty-one he left the jeweler's shop for a job on the Glasgow Sentinel as a ...
Original - Body of Confederate sharpshooter, behind famous shooting blind at Devil's Den. (Taken on July 6 or July 7, 1863, by Alexander Gardner. Recent scholarship strongly suggests that the photo was staged for dramatic effect with a body recovered elsewhere).
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English: This is one of a series of six pictures of the President taken by Alexander Gardner on the day before the official opening of his gallery. Lincoln had promised to be Gardner's first sitter and chose Sunday for his visit to avoid "curiosity seekers and other seekers" while on his way to the gallery.