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Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville. March, 1862. No. 2.

One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville. March, 1862. No. 2," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. Page taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War. Incidents of the War."...

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Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville. No. 3. March 1862.

One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville. No. 3. March 1862," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. Image shows two Quaker guns and several men posed near the interior wall of the fort. View...

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Incidents of the War. Ruins at Manassas. No. 1. March, 1862.

One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the War. Ruins at Manassas," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. This page was taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War." Image is of a young boy, a dead horse, and a Federal...

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Incidents of the War. Ruins of Stone Bridge, Bull Run. No. 2. March, 1862.

One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the War. Ruins of Stone Bridge, Bull Run," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. This page was taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War." Image is of debris from bridge lying in the...

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Ruins at Manassas Junction. No. 9. March, 1862.

One photograph entitled, "Ruins at Manassas Junction," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. Image is of ruins of several buildings used by the Confederate railroad company, Orange and Alexandria, as a depot. The remains of a few mud huts...

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[Gen. William Hoffman & staff at the Office of Commissary General of Prisoners, Washington D.C.]

A print of a photograph of General William Hoffman and three others. Hoffman is the man leaning against the banister on the right hand side of the image. He and two other men are standing on the steps of the building beneath a sign reading: "Office...

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[Camp Stoneman, Giesboro Point, MD, near Washington D.C.]

A print of a photograph of a serious of long, thin buildings arranged in a row. The cavalry depots were necessary to house and train the mounts for the Union armies. A few tents and clothes drying on a clothes line can be seen in the foreground in...

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[Group of nine officers posed in the entryway of a brick building]

A print of nine Union officers. Photo was most likely taken in Washington. Two women peer from a window on the left hand side of the image. A young boy wearing a cap sits in front of the men. The soldier to the far left holds a bugle, while the...

GLC05111.01.0136

[Group of seventeen men posed in front of the Office of Gov't Repair Shops, Washington D.C.]

A print of a photograph of men standing outisde of a two story building. Most of the civilian men standing outside the white two-story building are probably workers employed by the government. One sign on the roof and another on the porch read:...

GLC05111.01.0137

[Group of forty-six civilians and soldiers posed in front of government shops, Washington D.C.]

A print of a photograph of a large group of civilians. The assemblage is posed in front of three long, white government shops. Most are probably workers employed in the buildings by the government. Black laborers wearing aprons and holding tools are...

GLC05111.01.0138

[Quartermaster's Hospital]

A print of a photograph of a two-story building bearing sign "Quartermasters Hospital," flanked on either side by two one-story buildings An ambulance is stopped in front of the building. Several men pose in the photograph and an United States flag...

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[Quartermaster Hospital]

A print of a photograph showing three hospital buildings behind a white picket fence. Dirt road in the foreground. A United States flag flies in front of the two story building which bears the sign "Quartermasters Hospital." Graphite inscription on...

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[Harewood Hospital with view of capitol building in background]

A print of a photograph of Harewood Hospital, Washington, DC. View of 12 rectangular buildings comprising the hospital. Water tower can be seen to the left of the image, along with part of the white fence that bordered the hospital. Most of the...

GLC05111.01.0141

[Band of 9th Veteran Reserve Corps, Washington Circle]

A print of a photograph of the 9th Veteran Reserve Corps band. Shows 17 musicians in the grey uniforms, shakoes, and frogged jackets of the 9th Veteran Reserve Corps, posed with brass instruments. The drums are stacked in front of the group. Two...

GLC05111.01.0144

Headquarters of Gen. M. D. Hardin, Washington, D.C., April, 1865

A print of a photograph of the Washington, DC headquarters of Brigadier General Hardin. Brigadier General Martin D. Hardin put was in command ofthe defenses of Washington from 1864 to the end of the war. He is just left of the tree on the corner...

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[Group of thirteen Union soldiers sitting under a branch shelter, near Washington D.C.]

A print of a photograph of a Union encampment. Gardner photograph. "XXX" "228." Inscription on verso: "defences of Wash[ington]." Thirteen soldiers sit under a long structure made of branches. A building can be seen behind the shelter. A private...

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Washington, District of Columbia. Quartermaster warehouse

A print of a photograph of Quartermaster's warehouses in Washington, DC. Group of civilian men and boys on street in front of two white buildings. Some men on the end of the loading dock [far right] stand with supplies and hand trucks [dollies]. The...

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Harewood (i.e. Mt. Pleasant) Hospital, Washington, D.C.

A print of a large hospital complex in background, including water tower, flagpole and white fence bordering the complex. A large number of medical tents occupy the right hand side of the photograph. Two officers and a civilian gentlemen converse in...

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Washington, District of Columbia. Government bakery

A print of a photograph of a building with the sign "Government Bakery." The bakers have come out and pose mostly in front of the bakery. Since the armies in the field baked their own bread mostly, this bakery serviced only those troops around the...

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Lodge of the Sanitary Commision

Title from inscription on verso. Image of three hospital buildings, two on the left side of the image and one on the right side. Recuperating soldiers occupy the center of the image. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation: "1201 XXIX...

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[Full length seated portrait of Lincoln]

Printed signature in Lincoln's hand beneath portrait: "Your obt. servt. A. Lincoln" Lincoln is seated in an armchair known as a "Brady Chair," which previously belonged to the House of Representatives. The original portrait was taken on November 8...

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Government Repair Shop and large group of workers, Washington, D.C. [1865 ca.]

A long white Government Repair Shop stretches across the image with a large group of workers standing on the wooden sidewalk out front. Two men are off by themselves, one of whom appears to be either a soldier or policeman, on the right side of the...

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Gen. William Hoffman & staff at the Office of Commissary General of Prisoners, Washington D.C. [April 1865 ca.]

Two officers and a civilian stand on the steps of the "Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners." The officer on the right is Gen. William Hoffman. The office itself was located in Washington, D.C. at F. St. and 20th NW. The address on the...

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Grand Review, Washington, D.C.

This image shows troops marching in the Grand Review in Washington, D.C. The photo is very dark. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "XXVI" and "1271."

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Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C.

The image shows a cluster of white hospital buildings situated on top of a hill. Inscription on verso: "General View of Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C." and "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XXXI" and "1014." Deleted numeric notation on...

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Vignette bust portrait of Lincoln's Post-Master General

Graphite inscription on verso "Montgomery Blair." Photographers imprint on verso: "Alex. Gardner, Photographer to the Army of the Potomac. Galleries 511 Seventh Street and 332 Pennsylvania Av. Published by Philp & Solomons, Washington D.C."

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James C. Duane, vignette bust portrait, bird insignia on shoulder strap

Graphite inscription on verso "Col Duane." Ink inscription on verso "James C. Duane. [struck: Brig. Gan. Vols.] Maj. Engrs. & Bv't Brig. Gen. U.S.A. Brig Gen., Chief of Engineers, U.S.A. Oct. 11, 1886." Photographers imprint on verso: "Alex. Gardner...

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Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

As lieutenant general, post-war, vignette bust portrait. Imprint on recto "Lieut. General U.S. Grant." Photographers imprint on verso: "Alex. Gardner, Photographer to the Army of the Potomac. Galleries 511 Seventh Street and 332 Pennsylvania Av...

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Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

As lieutenant general, seated, holding cigar, looking to the right. Imprint on recto "Lieut. General U.S. Grant. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1865, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of...

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Charles Howard, as brigadier general, vignette bust portrait

Mount trimmed. Graphite inscription on verso "C. H. Howard. B'vt Brig. Gen. Vols." Photographers imprint on verso: "Alex. Gardner, Photographer to the Army of the Potomac. Galleries 511 Seventh Street and 332 Pennsylvania Av. Published by Philp &...

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As major general, standing 3/4 length napoleonic portrait

Graphite inscription on recto "A N Smith." Ink isncription on verso "A.N.S." Photographers imprint on verso: "Alex. Gardner. Photographer to the Army of the Potomac. Galleries 511 Seventh Street and 332 Pennsylvania Av. Published by Philp & Solomons...

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Seated with left knee crossed over right, long hair and beard

Graphite inscription on verso "Alex Gardner himself." Photographers imprint on verso: "Gardner Corner 7th & D Sts. Washington, D.C."

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General Nathaniel P. Banks

Bust portait.

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Silas Casey

Bust portrait.

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[Abraham Lincoln, stereo card, seated full length view]

Black mount. Inscription on verso: "Stereo made from two matching carte photos, the originals are from Sid Strober's collection. Copy made by Fred Lightfoot, 1952." Seated, full length view of Lincoln with hat on the table beside him. [O-52].

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[General Hooker's staff in mock battle]

Albumen print of Alexander Gardner photograph showing General Hooker's staff in mock battle. With notes by Capt. Benjamin H. Ticknor, 45th Mass. Infantry and 2nd Mass. Heavy Artillery, identifying "Mock fight over the body of A. R. Waud, artist" and...

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Incidents of the war. Group--Generals Meade, Humphreys, Hunt, French, Sykes, and Warren.

Famous photograph of the commanders of the Army of the Potomac, taken after the Gettysburg campaign. Taken near Culpeper Court House in Virginia. Included are Generals George G. Meade, A.A. Humphreys, Henry J. Hunt, William French, George Sykes, and...

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Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Va

Shows factory buildings, with two men standing (facing away from the camera), in the center foreground

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View of Crenshaw's Mill, [Richmond, Va.]

Shows mill on a river, with a masonry bridge at the center of the image. Ruins of buildings on banks of river.

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View of Chimborago Hospital, Richmond, Va.

Distant view showing barracks, with Black man holding crutches sitting in the left foreground, facing away from the camera. Title from pencil note on verso.

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[Photograph of workmen posed outside Government Wheelwright shop]

Large unmounted photograph showing many workmen standing next to large wheels and wheeled gun carriages.

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[Albumen of John Howard's livery & sale stables]

Inscribed on verso: "the livery stable from which the horse was hired that Booth ran away after shooting President Lincoln April 14, 1865."
Also includes #7767 and a stamp for Kemp, Photographers, 137 S. Broad St., Trenton, N.J. The photograph is...

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[Lincoln assassination conspirators]

Nine large plate albumen prints of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. Secret Service head Colonel Lafayette C. Baker selected Gardner to take the photographs of the conspirators while in they were in custody, awaiting trial aboard the U.S.S...

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