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Malvern house. [Malvern Hill] [1862-1865 ca.]

Brick house with white trim. The photograph accompanies a series on Malvern Hill and is on a bluish-gray mount.

GLC05111.01.0331

House built by Genl Grant on the farm nr. St. Louis [Hardscrabble]

Title taken from inscription on mount. Mounted on purple mount. The full note on the picture: "House built by Genl. Grant on the farm n[ea]r St. Louis given to him by his father in Law, Judge Dent." Judge Dent gave the newly wed couple the land in...

GLC05111.01.0343

The Robinson House at Manassas Battlefield [Henry Hill]. [March 1862 ca.]

A view of the Robinson House and front yard. Numeric Notation: "319 I"

GLC05111.01.0405

View of ruins of large white house with columns through trees.

The ruins of the building are visible just beyond the trees in the center of the image. A few tents occupy the right side of the image. Inscription on verso: "Genl. Ordway Gardner Coll." Numeric notation: "293 VIII."

GLC05111.01.0417

Group of two women and 6 soldiers posed on porch of building

The building is constructed of unpainted wooden planks. The windows are covered by closed shutters. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation: "1139."

GLC05111.01.0449

Savanah, Ga. No. 2, photo from nature by G.N. Barnard

Page removed from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign." Image of the Savannah waterfront, where several sailing vessels are parked. Signs of several businesses are visible on nearby buildings, including: "R.A. Allen & Son," "New...

GLC05111.01.0455

Fort Negley, Nashville, Tenn. [1864 ca.] [oversize composite photograph]

A large panoramic image made by joining two large-format photographs. "Designed & built on the German Polygonal System in 1862 - 63 by Gen. St. Clair Morton, Capt. of Engineers." View of the interior of the fort with the city of Nashville visible...

GLC05111.01.0477

Small house with garden and three men.

The image shows a fancy house and its fenced in garden. A Federal officer sits on a chair just inside the fence on the left side of the image. Another man stands just behind him on the other side of the fence.

GLC05111.01.0531

Federal officers on steps of Arlington House. [1861-1865 ca.]

Ten Federal officers stand on the steps of a large building with columns. The men stand in lines descending the steps; the leftmost line is of three men, the next has two, the next four, and the last is of just one man. There is a large flaw on the...

GLC05111.01.0556

Columns of a large, damaged mansion viewed through a stand of trees. [1861-1865 ca.]

Grass in foreground, ruins of large white mansion visible through trees. Inscription on verso: "Ordway Gardner Coll." Numeric notations on verso: "VIII" and "92."

GLC05111.01.0560

Brick building in Richmond, Va.

A three-story brick building, partially obscured by trees, with a wooden fence behind a sidewalk on which a man sits. Inscription on verso: "Residence of J.C. Brecker Richmond, Va." Numerical Notation on verso: "41." Additional inscription on verso:...

GLC05111.01.0714

St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.

Eighteen distinct people are visible, along with several "ghosted" people [an effect that ocurred when a person was moving while the picture was being taken]. Inscription on verso: "St Paul's Church Richmond." Numeric notation on verso: "13-1."...

GLC05111.01.0715

Ballards Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.

A view down a dirt road at a five story brick building, with a brick walkway across the street to an unseen building. A sign on the right reads: "Hacks for Hire." Inscription on verso: "Ballard's Hotel Richmond, Virginia." Numeric Notation on verso...

GLC05111.01.0719

Steven's House in Centreville, Virginia.

Inscription on verso: "Mrs Stevens' House Centreville, Va." Numerical Notation on verso: "155." One black boy stands with a black man looking away from the camera in front of the house. Another black man stands on the porch.
See GLC 5111.01.0721

GLC05111.01.0720

Oblique view of Mrs [Alexander ?] Steven's House in Centreville, Virginia.

Inscription on verso: "Mrs Stevens' House Centreville, Va." Numerical Notation on verso: "36."
See GLC 5111.01.0720

GLC05111.01.0721

Courthouse in Petersburg, Virginia.

A View of the Petersburg, Virginia courthouse, with the Treadway and Johnson Stove warehouse on the right side of the image. A sign on the buidling mentions "tin ware" and wood. Inscription on verso: "Courthouse Petersburg,Va." Numeric Notation on...

GLC05111.01.0723

Courthouse at Culpeper, Virginia acting as prison with Confederate P.O.W.s on balcony.

Inscription on verso: "Culpepper, Courthouse." Numeric notation on verso: "62."

GLC05111.01.0740

Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland.

Inscription on verso: "Blair's House Silver Spring, Maryland." Front of house from the left side with a tree in left foreground and soldier standing on guard next to two men seated on porch. Numeric Notation on verso: "64."

GLC05111.01.0746

Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland.

Inscription on verso: "Blair's House Silver Spring, Maryland." Front of house from the right side with trees in foreground and soldiers standing and sitting infront of house. Numeric Notation on verso: "70."

GLC05111.01.0747

Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland, with family seated on bench.

Inscription on verso: "Blair's House Silver Spring, Md." A family of three sits on a bench on the lands of the Blair estate, next to a path with the servants' quarters in view. Numeric notation on verso: "43."

GLC05111.01.0748

Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland, with reliquary.

Inscription on verso: "At Blair's House Silver Spring, Md." The covered reliquary of a statue of Apollo on the grounds of the Blair House with low stone wall behind and houses in background. Numeric notation on verso: "132."

GLC05111.01.0749

Ruins of the Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland.

Inscription on verso: "Ruins of Mr. Blairs House." The burned-out remains of the Blair House. Numeric notation on verso: "28."

GLC05111.01.0750

Gale's House, with fourteen people on or around the porch.

Inscription on verso: "Gale's House." Numeric notation on verso: "32."

GLC05111.01.0762

General Isaac Stevens' Headquarters in South Carolina

Inscription on verso: "Headquarters Gen. I.I.Stevens S.C." A view of the house in South Carolina where Union General Isaac Ingalls Stevens maintained his headquarters during the South Carolina expedition of 1861-62. Numeric notation on verso: "34."

GLC05111.01.0763

House of Robert B. Rhett, Beaufort, S.C.

Inscription on verso: "Rhett's House Beaufort, S.C." The house is surrounded by trees, with a man standing at the foot of the stairs leading up to the main entry. Numeric notation on verso: "35(20)."

GLC05111.01.0764