About the Collection
Civil War: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints provides a sample of the photographs, albums, and documents held by DeGolyer Library that illustrate both the Union and Confederate sides of the U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865. Important materials related to the Civil War are found in several photography accessions, including stereographs, and in collections of manuscripts, maps, period books and some later reunion materials. DeGolyer Library also has a particularly strong set of holdings of Texas-related Civil War images in the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection.
Highlights include:
- Portrait cartes de visite of Union and Confederate generals, officers, and soldiers.
- A series by Andrew J. Russell, who was the official photographer for the U.S. Military Railroad. His images show the importance of railroads and the Union Army’s military strength.
- Plates, some with related text, from two editions of Alexander Gardner’s seminal 1866 work: Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War
- Alexander Gardner Cartes de Visite and Portraits: Photographs by Gardner, including his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, are some of the most iconic of the conflict.
- Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, from Negatives Taken in the Field, ca. 1864-1866, by George Barnard, containing 61 prints and an accompanying booklet.
- Prints, including many photographs by Mathew Brady, from Civil War Images.
- Stereoviews from the Collection of Civil War Era Stereographs.
- Trip through Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania: a Civil War-related album containing 129 photographs made by brothers T. Dwight Biscoe (1840-1930) and Walter S. Biscoe (1853-1933) on a post-Civil War trip through Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania primarily of Civil War battlefields and cemeteries. Mounts include detailed descriptions about the battlefields of Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek near Winchester, Virginia, Harper's Ferry, Antietam and Hagerstown, Maryland.
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