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Alexander Gardner's camp with two assistants next to log cabins. [1863-1864 ca.]

Alexander Gardner's camp - photgraphing maps for the army in the field. See Mathew Brady and His World, page 207. Two men are seated in front of a log cabin with a tent streched over it as a roof, one in its doorway and one on a high table. Also...

GLC05111.01.0522

Headquarters of General Mott, 2nd Div., 3rd Corps. [1861-1865 ca.]

Nine officers and enlistedmen stand in front of a log cabin with a chimney made from barrels. Behind them, two men hold the [2nd Division] 3rd Corps flag, a triangular flag with a white diamond in the center. There are five contraband men in the...

GLC05111.01.0558

Note: Adelbert Ames, Lowell MA, to F.H. Meserve, New York, NY. December 19, 1908.

Ames writes: "I think this photograph was taken the first year or two after the war in Washington D.C." A small photograph of Ames (5111.01.0624) is with the letter.

GLC05111.01.0623

Photographs of Battlefields, a list of Gardner's work.

A list of Gardner's photographs with titles and indications as to whether they were single or double. Seven pages are present- a cover page and table of contents [pages 12 through 17]. The total on the last page is 1176 photographs. Gardner gave the...

GLC05111.01.0605

Confederate dead on Rose Farm, Gettysburg, Pa. [July 5, 1863]

Inscription on image: "After first [inserted: day of] battle at Gettysburg." Photographer's labels were often incorrect [sometimes intentionally], and this is such a case. The image is actually of Confederate dead on the Rose farm, which was the...

GLC05111.01.0616

Article: finding of photo of Lincoln assassination indignation meeting. February 6, 1910.

Chicago Sunday Tribune article and headline describing the discovery of the photograph of the 1865 indignation meeting over Lincoln's death. Headline: "Finds Old Lincoln Photo; Remarkable Photograph Taken at Bloomington, Ill., April 25, 1865; Meeting...

GLC05111.01.0620

Clipping: finding of photo of Lincoln assassination indignation meeting. February 10, 1924. [variant]

Caption: "Their Prayer Was Heard!" The clipping includes a reprint of a photograph from an 1865 indignation meeting over Lincoln's death with a short description of the events. The inscription below the title reads: "Feb 10 1924." Same image and...

GLC05111.01.0621

Clipping: finding of photo of Lincoln assassination indignation meeting. February 16, 1924. [variant]

Newspaper clipping with reprint of photograph of 1865 indignation meeting over Lincoln's death with short description of the events. Same image and words as 5111.01.0621, but slightly different borders and format. Inscription at bottom: "Feb 16...

GLC05111.01.0622

Transcript: F.H. Meserve to Dr. Louis A. Warren, Fort Wayne, Id. [January 19, 1942]

Meserve sends Dr. Warren of the Lincoln National Life Foundation two prints of Lincoln that he believes may have been made from the same negative. One of the prints (5111.01 #626), Meserve #86, is with the letter. See GLC 5111.01.0627.

GLC05111.01.0625

Abraham Lincoln vignette with TLS [January 19, 1942]

The image is a small vignette print of Abraham Lincoln. The print was with a letter (5111.01.0525) from F.H. Meserve to Dr. Warren of the Lincoln National Life Foundation dated 01/19/1942. Inscription on verso in Meserve's handwriting reads: "Bought...

GLC05111.01.0626