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General McClellan and Staff - Early photography, Public domain image

General McClellan and Staff - Early photography, Public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain image of war, military conflict, infantry, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish p... More

Bodies of Confederate artillerymen near Dunker church

Bodies of Confederate artillerymen near Dunker church

No. 552. Alternate title and photographer from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. M... More

Custom House, Richmond, Virginia (after evacuation)

Custom House, Richmond, Virginia (after evacuation)

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Icon Col. Greene 2.D[ivision], public domain photograph

Icon Col. Greene 2.D[ivision], public domain photograph

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882... More

"The home guard" White Mountain rangers

"The home guard" White Mountain rangers

Stereograph shows a group of women kneeling and standing in formation, holding long pointed sticks or spears, forming a unit of "home guards". Attributed to Alexander Gardner based on stamp "A.G." on another c... More

Acquia (i.e. Aquia) Creek Landing, Virginia

Acquia (i.e. Aquia) Creek Landing, Virginia

No. 446. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c... More

Ruins at end of Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge, Richmond

Ruins at end of Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge, Richmond

Public domain image of a romantic ruins landscape, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish ph... More

Armory Square Hospital, Interior of Ward K

Armory Square Hospital, Interior of Ward K

Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He emigrated to the United States in 1856 and worked as a ph... More

[Brigadier General William G. Mank, Union officer in the 32nd Indiana Regiment, full-length portrait, standing, facing front] / Alex Gardner, Photographer for the Army of the Potomac.

[Brigadier General William G. Mank, Union officer in the 32nd Indiana ...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for h... More

Lewis Payne, Lincoln conspirator, full-length portrait, standing in front of tent, facing right

Lewis Payne, Lincoln conspirator, full-length portrait, standing in fr...

Photographer name from Swanson, J. Lincoln's assassins, 2001. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 7771. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known f... More

St. Peter's Church near White House, Where Washington was Married.  General E. V. Sumner and Staff

St. Peter's Church near White House, Where Washington was Married. Ge...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photo... More

Icon [Group of Union Officers], public domain photograph

Icon [Group of Union Officers], public domain photograph

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 18... More

Headquarters of General Hooker - Early photography, Public domain image

Headquarters of General Hooker - Early photography, Public domain imag...

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Major General S. P. Heintzelman and staff

Major General S. P. Heintzelman and staff

No. 509. Alternate title, and photographer from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. ... More

George A. Custer, Confederate Prisoner Lt. James Barroll Washington and a Young Slave

George A. Custer, Confederate Prisoner Lt. James Barroll Washington an...

LIBI_00019_00223, Photographed by Alexander Gardner and James Gibson, "George A. Custer, Confederate Prisoner Lt. James Barroll Washington and a Young Slave," circa 1862. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - ... More

View from Libby Hill looking west on Main Street

View from Libby Hill looking west on Main Street

No. B851. Photographer identified in Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Mounted wit... More

[Sunday morning mass in camp of 69th New York State Militia]

[Sunday morning mass in camp of 69th New York State Militia]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882... More

[Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, seated]

[Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, seated]

Photo shows Abraham Lincoln with a badly swollen hand after shaking hands with thousands of people during his journey to Washington, DC. During most of the sitting he kept his right hand closed or out of view. ... More

Bodies of Confederate artillerymen near Dunker Church

Bodies of Confederate artillerymen near Dunker Church

b&w photo taken after the battle Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He emigrated to the United... More

[United States Sanitary Commission], J. Paul Getty Museum

[United States Sanitary Commission], J. Paul Getty Museum

Public domain photograph - 19th-century albumen print, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish ... More

Antietam, Maryland. General Joe Hooker's headquarters

Antietam, Maryland. General Joe Hooker's headquarters

Caption from negative sleeve: Gen. Hooker's Headquarters, Battle of Antietam. Corresponding print is in LOT 4167-C. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Antietam, Maryland. Burnside bridge. Southeastern view

Antietam, Maryland. Burnside bridge. Southeastern view

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Burnside Bridge South Eastern view, Sept. 1862. Corresponding print is in LOT 4167-C. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of ... More

Antietam, Maryland. Picnic party at Antietam bridge

Antietam, Maryland. Picnic party at Antietam bridge

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Picnic Party at Antietam. Corresponding print is in LOT 4172. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Pho... More

Antietam, Maryland. Battlefield near Sherrick's house where the 79th N.Y. Vols. fought after they crossed the creek. Group of dead Confederates

Antietam, Maryland. Battlefield near Sherrick's house where the 79th N...

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: View on Battlefied of Antietem near Sherrick's house, where the 79th New York Volunteers Fought, After they crossed the creek. Group of dead Con... More

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia, J. Paul Getty Museum

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia, J. Paul Getty Museum

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer ... More

Mrs. Greenhow and Daughter, Imprisoned in the Old Capitol, Washington

Mrs. Greenhow and Daughter, Imprisoned in the Old Capitol, Washington

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best kno... More

Lutheran Church, Sharpsburgh, Maryland, September 1862

Lutheran Church, Sharpsburgh, Maryland, September 1862

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Group at headquarters Army of Potomac, Oct. 4, 1862

Group at headquarters Army of Potomac, Oct. 4, 1862

Photograph shows at left, Maj. Allen Pinkerton and Friends at the Secret Service Department near Antietam, Maryland. No. 618. Alternate title, and photographerfrom Catalogue of photographic incidents of the wa... More

What do I want, John Henry? Warrenton, Virginia, November 1862 / Alex. Gardner, photographer.

What do I want, John Henry? Warrenton, Virginia, November 1862 / Alex....

White soldier sitting facing young black servant, who is holding bottle and cake(?), with two other soldiers sitting and one standing in front of two tents. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the ... More

Antietam, Maryland. Bodies in front of the Dunker church

Antietam, Maryland. Bodies in front of the Dunker church

Caption from negative sleeve: Dunker Church, Antietam, Sept. 1862. Corresponding print is in LOT 4167-C. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gene... More

Maryland. John C. Babcock, a Secret Service man and Gimlet, a celebrated war horse of the Rappahannock

Maryland. John C. Babcock, a Secret Service man and Gimlet, a celebrat...

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Gimlet, a celebrated war horse of the Rappahannock. Oct. 1862. Annotation from negative, stereo label: 2-4 & 5 G[?], John C. Babcock, Secret Ser... More

Group at Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, Antietam, October 1862

Group at Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, Antietam, October 18...

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Is This Death - Antietam Battlefield, September 1862

Is This Death - Antietam Battlefield, September 1862

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was... More

Battlefield of Antietam Maryland, [Retouched Gardner photograph of Lincoln, Pinkerton & McClernand].

Battlefield of Antietam Maryland, [Retouched Gardner photograph of Lin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882... More

View on the Battlefield of Antietam, September 1862

View on the Battlefield of Antietam, September 1862

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Icon What do I want, John Henry?, public domain photograph

Icon What do I want, John Henry?, public domain photograph

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best kno... More

Contrabands on Mr. Toller's Farm

Contrabands on Mr. Toller's Farm

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for h... More

Antietam, Maryland. Burnside bridge across the Antietam. Southwest view

Antietam, Maryland. Burnside bridge across the Antietam. Southwest vie...

Photographer name from negative sleeve: Alex. Gardner. Caption from negative sleeve: Burnside Bridge, across the Antietam, South-west view. Corresponding print is in LOT 4167-C. Credit line: Civil war photograp... More

[John Henry with unidentified black man, both seated in front of a tent]

[John Henry with unidentified black man, both seated in front of a ten...

Public domain photograph - 19th-century albumen print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who... More

Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia, J. Paul Getty Museum

Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia, J. Paul Getty Museum

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer ... More

Antietam Bridge, On the Sharpsburgh and Boonsboro Turnpike, No. 3, September 1862

Antietam Bridge, On the Sharpsburgh and Boonsboro Turnpike, No. 3, Sep...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch bridge, stone structure, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photogr... More

View in the Field, On the West Side of the Hagerstown Road, After the Battle of Antietam, Maryland, September 1862

View in the Field, On the West Side of the Hagerstown Road, After the ...

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Pontoon Bridge Across the Potomac, Berlin, October 1862

Pontoon Bridge Across the Potomac, Berlin, October 1862

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Lieutenant Washington, a Confederate Prisoner, and Capt. Custis [sic] (for Custer) U.S.A.

Lieutenant Washington, a Confederate Prisoner, and Capt. Custis [sic] ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882... More

Icon Stone Church, Centreville, Va., public domain photograph

Icon Stone Church, Centreville, Va., public domain photograph

Public domain photograph - 19th-century albumen print, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish ... More

Ruins of Stone Bridge, Bull Run / negative by Barnard & Gibson ; positive by A Gardner.

Ruins of Stone Bridge, Bull Run / negative by Barnard & Gibson ; posit...

Illustration showing ruins of a stone bridge which was destroyed to prevent pursuit by Confederate troops. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp... More

Scene in Pleasant Valley, Maryland

Scene in Pleasant Valley, Maryland

Public domain photograph - 19th-century albumen print, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photogra... More

Culpeper, Virginia, August 1862 during American Civil War

Culpeper, Virginia, August 1862 during American Civil War

View of Civil War military encampment in Culpeper, Virginia. Civil War Photograph Collection. Negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive by A. Gardner. Corresponds to illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of... More

[Abraham Lincoln on battlefield at Antietam, Maryland, cropped version that highlights McLellan and Lincoln]

[Abraham Lincoln on battlefield at Antietam, Maryland, cropped version...

Abraham Lincoln with, from left: Col. Alexander S. Webb, Chief of Staff, 5th Corps.; Gen. George B. McClellan; Scout Adams; Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Army Medical Director; an unidentified person; and standing be... More

Westover Landing, Virginia. View of transports in James River

Westover Landing, Virginia. View of transports in James River

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: West over Landing, James River, July 1862. Corresponding print is in LOT 4175. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congres... More

Battery No. 1, Near Yorktown, Virginia

Battery No. 1, Near Yorktown, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, or cannon, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best ... More

Group at Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, Antietam, October 1862

Group at Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, Antietam, October 18...

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

President Lincoln on Battle-Field of Antietam

President Lincoln on Battle-Field of Antietam

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882... More

Antietam, Maryland. Battlefield on the day of battle sic

Antietam, Maryland. Battlefield on the day of battle sic

Photo, probably taken on the afternoon of Sept. 18 (the day after the battle), shows a man with binoculars on the hill in front of McClellan's headquarters looking towards Antietam Creek. The smoke is from camp... More

Inspection of Troops at Cumberlanding, Pamunkey, Virginia

Inspection of Troops at Cumberlanding, Pamunkey, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a horse carriage, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for h... More

General Heintzelman and staff, Harrisons Landing

General Heintzelman and staff, Harrisons Landing

Gen. Samuel Peter Heintzelman and staff posed in front of tent. No. 628. Original negative no. : LC-B811-628. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - Decemb... More

Antietam, Maryland. Antietam bridge on Sharpsburg and Boonsboro turnpike

Antietam, Maryland. Antietam bridge on Sharpsburg and Boonsboro turnpi...

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Antietam bridge. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about ... More

Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. General John A. McClernand

Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. General Joh...

Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Date from information associated with identical image in negative LC-B817-7949. Annotation from negative: Copyright 1907 by E.B. Eaton. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 186... More

[President Abraham Lincoln, Major General John A. McClernand (right), and E. J. Allen (Allan Pinkerton, left), Chief of the Secret Service of the United States, at Secret Service Department, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, near  Antietam, Maryland]

[President Abraham Lincoln, Major General John A. McClernand (right), ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882... More

Westover Landing, Virginia. Officers of 3rd and 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry illustrating the hardships of war

Westover Landing, Virginia. Officers of 3rd and 4th Pennsylvania Caval...

Photographer name from negative sleeve: Alex. Gardner. Caption from negative sleeve: Officers of 3d and 4th PA Cavalry, illustrating the hardships of war. Westover Landing. Annotation from negative, glass side:... More

Scene in Pleasant Valley, Maryland / Alex. Gardner, photographer.

Scene in Pleasant Valley, Maryland / Alex. Gardner, photographer.

Photograph showing a group of men and women, including Union army officers' family members, on the porch of a house owned by Mrs. Lee. The two officers were members of the staff of Gen. McClellan and Gen. Burns... More

Battery No. 4, Near Yorktown, Virginia

Battery No. 4, Near Yorktown, Virginia

Public domain photograph - 19th-century albumen print, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish ... More

Antietam, Maryland. Rullet's house on the battlefield

Antietam, Maryland. Rullet's house on the battlefield

Title from Civil War caption books. Corresponding print is in LOT 4164-C. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war... More

Antietam, Maryland. 93rd New York Infantry, headquarters Army of the Potomac

Antietam, Maryland. 93rd New York Infantry, headquarters Army of the P...

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: 93rd N.Y. Infantry, Hdq. Army of the Potomac, Antietam. Sept. 1862. Annotation from negative, glass side: 93d N.Y. Hdqrs Guard at Antietam, Sept... More

Antietam, Maryland. General Joe Hooker's headquarters

Antietam, Maryland. General Joe Hooker's headquarters

Title from Civil War caption books. Corresponding print is in LOT 4170. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war p... More

Manassas Junction / negative by Barnard & Gibson ; positive by A Gardner.

Manassas Junction / negative by Barnard & Gibson ; positive by A Gardn...

Illustration showing a group of men seated on the remains of the railroad station after its destruction. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp &... More

Military Bridge, across the Chickahominy, Virginia

Military Bridge, across the Chickahominy, Virginia

Public domain photograph - landscape, 19th-century albumen print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photo... More

View on Battle Field of Antietam

View on Battle Field of Antietam

Public domain photograph - 19th-century albumen print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who... More

Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia, J. Paul Getty Museum

Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia, J. Paul Getty Museum

Public domain photograph - 19th-century albumen print, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish ... More

Elk Mountain, Maryland. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield

Elk Mountain, Maryland. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield

T. O'Sullivan is credited as the photographer in Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, but he did not photograph at Antietam. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Signal tow... More

Antietam, Maryland. Antietam bridge, on Sharpsburg and Boonsboro turnpike

Antietam, Maryland. Antietam bridge, on Sharpsburg and Boonsboro turnp...

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Antietam bridge, on Sharpsburg and Boonsboro turnpike. Looking up stream. Sept. 1862. Bridge name: Middle Bridge or Orndorff Bridge (pre-Civil W... More

Antietam, Maryland. Burnside bridge across the Antietam

Antietam, Maryland. Burnside bridge across the Antietam

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Burnside bridge across the Antietam. Northeast view. With graves of Union Soldiers. Sept. 1862. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, L... More

Antietam, Maryland. Antietam bridge, looking across stream

Antietam, Maryland. Antietam bridge, looking across stream

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Antietam bridge, looking across stream. Sept. 1862. Corresponding print is in LOT 4176. Bridge name: Middle Bridge or Orndorff Bridge (pre-Civil... More

Pontoon bridge across Potomac River at Berlin, October 1862

Pontoon bridge across Potomac River at Berlin, October 1862

No. 4218. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, pl. 25. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. II, p. 56 - 57". Gift; ... More

Warrenton, Virginia. General Ambrose E. Burnside and staff

Warrenton, Virginia. General Ambrose E. Burnside and staff

Photographer name attribution from Civil War caption books. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: General A.E. Burnside and staff, Warrenton, Va. Group includes: Orlando B. Willcox, ... More

Lacey House, Falmouth, Virginia, J. Paul Getty Museum

Lacey House, Falmouth, Virginia, J. Paul Getty Museum

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best kno... More

President Lincoln on Battle-Field of Antietam

President Lincoln on Battle-Field of Antietam

Picryl description: Public domain image of war, military conflict, infantry, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish p... More

[President Lincoln, United States Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, near Antietam]

[President Lincoln, United States Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, n...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882... More

Antietam, Maryland. Sherrick's house, near Burnside bridge

Antietam, Maryland. Sherrick's house, near Burnside bridge

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Battle-field of Antietam Sherrick's House, near Burnside Bridge, September 1862. Corresponding print is in LOT 4165-C. Credit line: Civil war ph... More

Pleasant Valley, Maryland. Group of Signal Corps detachment

Pleasant Valley, Maryland. Group of Signal Corps detachment

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Group of Signal Corps Detachment, Pleasant Valley. Annotation from negative, stereo label: Miller vol. 8, p. 319. Corresponding print is in LOT ... More

Antietam, Maryland. General John C. Caldwell and staff on battlefield

Antietam, Maryland. General John C. Caldwell and staff on battlefield

Title from Civil War caption books. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war p... More

The President and General McClellan on the Battle-field of Antietam

The President and General McClellan on the Battle-field of Antietam

Photograph shows President Lincoln and General McClellan seated inside a tent on the Battlefield of Antietam. Ostendorf, no. 66 Meserve, no. 43. Printed under photo: Entered according to act of Congress, in th... More

Confederate Soldier [on the Battlefield at Antietam]

Confederate Soldier [on the Battlefield at Antietam]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882... More

Group at Secret Service Department, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Antietam, October 1862

Group at Secret Service Department, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac,...

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Confederate fortifications at Manassas, Virginia, Confederate States of America.

Confederate fortifications at Manassas, Virginia, Confederate States o...

Negative by Barnard & Gibson. Civil War Collection. No. 4175. Published in: Photographic sketch book of the war, vol. I, pl. 11. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photogra... More

Mathews' House, battle-field of Bull Run / negative by Barnard & Gibson ; positive by A Gardner.

Mathews' House, battle-field of Bull Run / negative by Barnard & Gibso...

Photograph showing a house on a hill above the battlefield at Bull Run. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 8. ... More

Signal Tower on Elk Mountain, Maryland, overlooking battlefield of Antietam

Signal Tower on Elk Mountain, Maryland, overlooking battlefield of Ant...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best kno... More

Colonel J. H. Childs and staff, 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Westover Landing, Virginia, Aug. 1862

Colonel J. H. Childs and staff, 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Westover Lan...

Photographer information from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Purchase; L.C. Han... More

Harrison's Landing, Virginia. Headquarters of Signal Corps

Harrison's Landing, Virginia. Headquarters of Signal Corps

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Headquarters Signal Corps, Harrison's landing. Aug. 1862. Miller, vol. 8, p. 317. Corresponding print is in LOT 4172-H. Credit line: Civil war p... More

Military Telegraphic Corps, Army of the Potomac, Berlin, October 1862

Military Telegraphic Corps, Army of the Potomac, Berlin, October 1862

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Confederate Soldier [on the Battlefield at Antietam]

Confederate Soldier [on the Battlefield at Antietam]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882... More

Antietam Bridge, On the Sharpsburg and Boonsboro Turnpike, No. 1, September 1862

Antietam Bridge, On the Sharpsburg and Boonsboro Turnpike, No. 1, Sept...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who ... More

Burnside Bridge, Across the Antietam, near Sharpsburg, No. 1, September 1862

Burnside Bridge, Across the Antietam, near Sharpsburg, No. 1, Septembe...

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Inspection of Troops at Cumberlanding, Pamunkey, Virginia

Inspection of Troops at Cumberlanding, Pamunkey, Virginia

Public domain photograph - 19th-century albumen print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who... More

Lacey House, Falmouth, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan ; positive by A. Gardner.

Lacey House, Falmouth, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan ; positi...

Photograph showing soldiers in front of the Lacy House near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866],... More

Battery No. 1, near Yorktown, Virginia / negative by Wood & Gibson ; positive by A. Gardner.

Battery No. 1, near Yorktown, Virginia / negative by Wood & Gibson ; p...

Photograph showing the cannons used by the Union army in a battery near the York River. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866... More

[Soldier standing at graves of Federal soldiers, along stone fence, at Burnside Bridge, Antietam, Maryland]

[Soldier standing at graves of Federal soldiers, along stone fence, at...

Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). LC-B815-585. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Ci... More

[Black soldier standing near chair with hat in seat]

[Black soldier standing near chair with hat in seat]

Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish phot... More

[Man wearing a hat, in profile, on horseback]

[Man wearing a hat, in profile, on horseback]

Public domain photograph - horses, 19th-century albumen print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photogra... More

View on Battle-field of Antietam

View on Battle-field of Antietam

Photographer name from Frassanito, W. Antietam, 1978. Title from Frassanito, W. Antietam, 1978: Confederate dead on the Miller farm, looking toward the west woods. Corresponding print is in LOT 4168. Credit lin... More

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