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Regiment lined up in front of brick building

Graphite inscription "Photo by Cole an Sellers." A large group of soldiers outside a brick building. "Gasworks Feneibles Co. A. 1861" in center and "Phila. Gas Works, Point Breeze" on one side. "10/05/1861 Co. A. City Gas Works Feneibles."

GLC05137.213

Camp on the Peninsula

Handwritten on back: "Camp on the Peninsula" Seemingly endless rows of tents and soldiers milling among them. Clothes are draped over a tent in the foreground on the left hand side of the photograph.

GLC05137.214

Picket Guard with Prisoners, near [Lewinsville]

Label on front: "Picket Guard with Prisoners, near . . . ." Rest of caption has been cut off but area is the same as GLC05137.178 and GLC05137.195. Two men in civilian clothes stand with a three enlisted men behind them and three officers in front...

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Camp Life, Army of the Potomac -- Taking It Easy (copy 2)

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. A copy of GLC05137.202, but without label on front.

GLC05137.216

Women visiting camp and sitting near tent with a group of soldiers

No identification. Two women sitting outside a tent, holding an umbrella to shield them from the sun. Seven soldiers are under the tent.

GLC05137.217

Group portrait of soldiers and civilians in front of tent

A large group of soldiers outside a tent. Two civilian men are on the left hand side of the photograph, one of them is wearing a white "lab coat." Uniform styles of the men vary.

GLC05137.218

Planning strategy

Group of eight soldiers, probably all officers, sitting around and looking intensively at a table. A man on the right-hand side of the photograph wears a medal.

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Four officers in front of a tent

Bierstadt bothers, New Bedford, Mass. Four officers with varying uniforms outside a tent. Man on far right of photograph wears light blue pants and knee boots. The man to his left wears light blue pants and waist coat. The next man wears dark...

GLC05137.221

7th N.Y. State Militia

A group of musicians outside of a tent, with rifles stacked in front of them.

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Regiment fixing bayonets

No identification. A line of soldiers with fixed bayonets. A flag is in the center of the photograph. The soldiers are wearing white gloves.

GLC05137.223

Picket Guard on Alert

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: War "Army of the Potomac. Picket Guard on the Alert"

GLC05137.224

Path or Road through a forrest

No identification. Handwritten on back: "Hessian Camp"

GLC05137.225

Seventh and Twelfth Brigades at Castle Garden to Receive H.R.H

James Cremer's Stereoscopic Emporium, Philadelphia. "The Seventh and Twelfth Regiments Drawn up in Line in Front of Castle Garden to Receive H. R. H."

GLC05137.226

Buriegh Corps Military Company

L. H. Fillmore, Whitehall, N.Y., publisher. On verso: [handwritten] Burleigh Corpse Military Co. very old". Soldiers outside a large barracks or house. Harness of the color bearers are visible. The soldiers wear white gloves.

GLC05137.227

Vignette bust portrait

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. On verso, "2275" crossed out and "2929"handwritten in.

GLC05137.228

Major General David Hunter, Bust portrait

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Inscription on verso: "Geo. H. Bowen."

GLC05137.229

Three-fourths length seated view

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. The photograph has been cropped.

GLC05137.230

Winfield Scott and wife in front of their home in Elizabeth, NJ

Handwritten on verso: "Residence of General Scott. Elizabeth NJ with [illegible]" Beneath Scott's "Winfield Scott Born in Virginia. Presidential nominee & soldiers June 13, 1786- May 29, 1866." At the bottom is handwritten the date "1866,10.20"...

GLC05137.231

Seated, half-length view, wearing civilian clothes

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Inscription on verso: "Geo. H. Bowen."

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Vignette bust portrait

Taylor & Huntington, Sole owners of the Original War Views, Hartford, Conn. Caption on front: ""Gen. W.F. (Baldy) Smith, Commander of the Bloody Sixth Corps."

GLC05137.236

Lincoln and McClellan in McClellan's Tent

Taylor & Huntington, Sole owners of the Original War Views, Hartford, Conn. Caption on back: "After the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, President Lincoln visited the Army of the Potomac and this view shows the president an 'Little Mac' in...

GLC05137.237

Maj. Gen. Geo. B. McClellan and Wife

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Alden Chase, Woodstock, # 117. Inscription on verso: "E.C. Ford."

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Soldiers lined up with officers walking in front of them

Soldiers lined up in the street. Two officers walk in front of the troops, perhaps reviewing them. A row of houses and stores stands behind them and people are looking out the windows. A few signs on the buildings are legible. On a plain, cream...

GLC05137.244

National Guard camp. Four men near a tent. With Maltese cross emblem on tent

No identification. Handwritten on back: "S.M. Mitchell, M.D., L. Johnson, J. W. Fritz, Bethlehem, Pa. July 1860, Camp of the National Guard." One man lies on a make-shift bed just inside a tent. Another man sits beside him, another leans against...

GLC05137.246

National Guard camp. Soldiers and young boy in uniform sitting inside a tent

No identification. Handwritten on back: "July 1860. Capt. Durang, Capt. Jas. W. McLeddy & Son George, Bethelem, Pa., 1860." The men are both wearing white pants. On a plain, cream colored mount.

GLC05137.247

National Guard camp. Lone soldier in a field wearing harness for drum or flag

A single soldier standing at attention. Handwritten on verso: "Capt. Wm. K. Mcferrier, Camp Scene, Behtlehem, Pa. 1860, National Guards" On a plain, cream colored mount.

GLC05137.248

National guard in camp at Bethlehem, PA

Several men standing outside a tent with a sign on it that says "Little [illegible]". Handwritten on back: "DeWitt C. Baxter, H. Sternverger, John S. Duns, R.H. Jacobs, E. W. Ferry, John Warner, Camp Scene, Bethlehem, Pa. 1860." The men are wearing...

GLC05137.249

National guard encampment with several men near tent

Several men around a tent. At the top on the tent is a sign that says "Big 6". Beneath it a second sign of a black cat with its back arched: "Our Tommy." There is a table with a sign on it that says "Love Lane." Inscription on verso: "Private...

GLC05137.250

National guard encampment, man and son

Same as GLC 5137.247. Writing on back in same hands as GLC 5137.247 but not the same note. "National Guard, Bethlehem, Pa., July 1860" "Leddy & son during camp of the [illegible] National Guard." On a plain, cream colored mount.

GLC05137.251

National guard encampment, soldier in tent

A soldiers in a tent. Handwritten on back: W. C. Macferrir (sp?), Camp of National Guards, Bethlehem, Pa. July 1860." "W. Macfenan in tent." Good view of tent interior. On a plain, cream colored mount.

GLC05137.252

Reunion parade in Indianapolis

"Keystone [illegible] Company, Manufacturers and Publishers, Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo." Caption on front: Grand Army Review, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.A." Telephone or electrical poles and wire, trolley track in the street. Drummers and buglers...

GLC05137.257

Lincoln's Funeral Procession, Chicago

Handwritten on back: "Lincoln's funeral, Part of procession Cor[ners] Clark and Lake St. Chicago"

GLC05137.259

Confederate Cemetery

W.J. Thompson, Photographer, Columbus, Ohio." A Confederate cemetery. Three children stand by a boulder on which is inscribed: "2260 Confederate Soldiers of the War 1861-1865 Buried in this Enclosure." Sign above the cemetery gate reads "Americans."

GLC05137.260

Twaddle Hall, Albany, Decorated for Zouaves Promenade Concert 1869, [view 1]

Handwritten on back: Charles H. Burton 942" and "Twaddle Hall, Albany, Decorated for Zouaves Promenade Concert 1869" Sign reads : "Albany Zouave Cadets 1860-1869." Another photograph (half a stereo view) of a different scene in the same hall pasted...

GLC05137.261

Twaddle Hall, Albany, Decorated for Zouaves Promenade Concert 1869, [view 2]

A different shot of GLC05137.261.

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Twaddle Hall, Albany, Decorated for Zouaves Promenade Concert 1869, [view 2]

Handwritten on back: "Charles H. Burton 943" and "Twaddle Hall, Albany, Decorated for Zouaves Promenade Concert 1869" Copy 2 of GLC.262

GLC05137.263

Old pensioners, Soldiers Home, Dayton, Ohio

Underwood & Underwood. A group of elderly soldiers in Civil War uniforms seated around a tree.

GLC05137.264

Soldiers near a tent, Richmond, July 1864

Four officers outside a tent. Two officers in foreground in heavily decorated, ornate uniforms with helmets and plumes. A black man in the background. No identification. Handwritten on back: "At Richmond, July 1884. Dr. Jones in foreground...

GLC05137.265

Marine Barracks, Charlestown Navy Yard, man sitting on cannonballs

Frank Rowell, Boston, Mass., publisher. Heywood, photographer. A civilian man seated among stacks of cannonballs. Caption: "Marine Barracks, Charlestown Navy Yard."

GLC05137.266

Great Peace Jubilee, Boston, June 1869

John P. Soule, Boston, publisher. Caption on front: "Coliseum, Interior View" View of orchestra from the crowd.

GLC05137.267

Camp Princeton, July, 1873

J.B. Brown, Photographer, Philadelphia. Stereoscopic Views of Camp Princeton, 5th Reg. M.N.G., Cape May, N.J., July, 1873. Group of soldiers sitting under a tent.

GLC05137.268

Petersburgh Railroad Depot, Richmond, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Ruins of a Locomotive in the Petersburgh railroad Depot, Richmond, Va." Inscription on verso: "Emma G. Griggs from my husband."

GLC05137.271

Civil War and African-American photographs re: slaves, plantations, contrabands [word processed inventory available]

17 photos of African-Americans and soldiers at Hilton Head, S.C. Includes images of slave plantations (#1), black (sailors?) onboard vessel (#15) and others.

GLC05140.01

Mansion occupied Jeff. Davis, Richmond, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Negative by Brady & Co., Washington. Caption: "Mansion occupied by Jeff. Davis, during the Rebellion, cor. Clay and Twelfth St., Richmond, Va." Series number 3377, changed by hand to 3376.

GLC05137.117

Crawford's Equestrian Statue of Washington, Richmond, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Statue in Capitol Grounds, Richmond, Va. Original series number, 3381, scratched out, 3170 written in by hand. Series name but no Anthony imprint.

GLC05137.118

The Grave of the Rebel Gen. Stuart, near Richmond, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Negative by Brady & Co., Washington

GLC05137.120

Panorama of Richmond, Va

[label] James Cremer, publisher. "Brady & Co., Washington" Label may be pasted over Anthony identification.

GLC05137.121

James River, Fort Darling, near Richmond, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Negative by Brady & Co., Washington. Caption: "Masked Battery and obstructions in the James River, Fort Darling, near Richmond, Va."

GLC05137.124

Castle Thunder, Richmond, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Negative by Brady & Co., Washington. Caption: "'Castle Thunder,' Cary St., the place where so many Union prisoners suffered. Richmond, Va."

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Libby Prison, Richmond, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Negative by Brady & Co., Washington

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