1865

Photograph

Title: Chapel of the 50 Engineers NY Vols in front of Petersburg, Va. [Poplar Grove] 1865.

Title taken from inscription on verso. The well constructed chapel, with a ornamental Engineers Castle insignia mounted above the door, is on the left side of the image. Black men, women and children stand in front of nearby smaller wooden buildings also well constructed. Inscription on verso: "Chapel of the 50 Engineers N.Y. Vols in front of Petersburg, VA 1865" and "F.H." Numeric notation on verso: "10" and "TO-33."

GLC05111.01.0529

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Petersburg streetview

The street runs down the center of the photograph. Many buildings stand on the left side of the image. The building on the corner on the right side of the image bears a sign reading "George family." The text between George and family has been cut off by the edge of the photograph. Numeric notation: "959 XI - IV."

GLC05111.01.0420

circa 1861-1865

Roche

Photograph

Title: Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches [Petersburg]

Title from inscription on verso. Stamp of F. H. Meserve on verso. Numeric notation: "360" and "268." Number scratched in negative 6189

GLC05111.01.0421

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Fort[ificati]i[o]ns on the lines. Petersburg

Inscription on verso: "Fort[ificat]i[o]ns on the lines. Federal [struck: or Confederate] says Mr. McCabe." Petersburg. Numeric notation: "1055 XI - III."

GLC05111.01.0423

1862-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Fort Monroe [VA], with lighthouse and bell tower in background along a sandy strip and a man sitting on a barrel in immediate foreground.

Inscription on verso: "Light House, Bell Tower." The forts walls loom in the background and two sets of rail road tracks run through the image. Numeric notation on verso: "12."

GLC05111.01.0790

1864-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Remains of Old Mill at Petersburg, Virginia.

Inscription on verso: "Ruins Old Mill at Petersburg, Va." Numeric notation on verso: "23."

GLC05111.01.0793

1865

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph

Title: A Good View of the covered ways inside the Rebel Fort Mahone [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "War Views. This picture is a good view of the covered ways inside the Rebel Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers "Fort Damnation." The Union soldiers had to charge up and down the obstructions. In the foreground centre is a dead rebel soldier sticking out through the debris, and further on lies another Confederate soldier. No.3183. Published by H. & H. T. Anthony & Co., American and foreign stereoscopic emporium." Numeric notation on verso: 180."

GLC05111.01.0804

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Confederate soldier killed at Petersburg [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "War Views. C.S. Soldier killed in Trenches, at the storming of Petersburge, Va. April. The marks and spots on his face, are blood issuing from his mouth and nose. The wound is in the head, caused by a fragment of shell. No. 3180." Numeric notation on verso: "377."

GLC05111.01.0832

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Main Walk inside Fortress Monroe

The brick avenue inside Fort Monroe, with a man standing beside the road on the left, a civilian talking to an officer on the road, and five boys near the tree on the right. Incription on verso: "Main Walk Fortress Monroe." Numeric notation on verso: "46."

GLC05111.01.0927

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: The Dutch Gap Canal, Petersburg

The image shows one man sitting on the right bank, looking at the open canal. Below the man is a wooden rowboat. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "956" and "XII."

GLC05111.01.0964

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: The Dutch Gap Canal, Petersburg

The image shows one man sitting, and another standing in the distance. Both are on the right bank looking at the open canal. Below the seated man is a wooden rowboat. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "956" and "XII."

GLC05111.01.0965

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: The Union Lines before Petersburg

The image shows the state of the Union lines before the battle at Petersburg. Numeric notation on image: "197." Inscription on verso: "The Union line before Petersburg." Numeric notation on verso: "79" "53" and "197"

GLC05111.01.0969

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Poplar Grove Church

The image shows the Poplar Grove Church, which was built by the 50th New York Volunteer Engineers in 1864-65. A Union drum Corps is in the right foreground, with other Union soldiers in front of the church. The site is near Petersburg, VA. Inscription on verso: "Church of the Engineer Corps before Petersburg." Numeric notation on verso: "348" and "45."

GLC05111.01.0979

[3 April 1865]

Photograph

Title: Dead Confederate soldier at Fort Mahone

Photo of a dead rebel soldier the day after the storming of Petersburg, VA. He is lying in the trenches of Fort Mahone. Inscription on verso: "Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches." Numeric notation on verso: "245."

GLC05111.01.0984

[3 April 1865]

Photograph

Title: Dead Confederate soldier at Fort Mahone

The photo shows a Confederate soldier killed by a shell in the trenches at Fort Mahone. The photo was taken the day after the storming of Petersburg, VA. Inscription on verso: "A dead Confederate soldier" and "Collection of Americana Frederick A Meserve 265 Edgecombe Avenue New York City." Numeric notations on verso: "6" and "269."

GLC05111.01.0985

[3 April 1865]

Photograph

Title: Dead Confederate soldier at Fort Mahone

The photo shows a dead Confederate soldier, probably killed by a fragment of a nearby shell explosion. The photo was taken the day after the storming of Petersburg, VA, on April 3,1865. Inscription on verso: "Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches." Numeric notations on verso: "68" and "363."

GLC05111.01.0986

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Belle Island, seen from Petersburgh Railroad [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "War Views. View of Belle Island, from the Petersburgh Railroad, Manchester, Va. No. 3275."

GLC05111.01.0860

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Sharpshooters at Petersburg

The image shows three Union sharpshooters behind fortifications with a box of artillery marked "1864." Inscription on verso: "Sharp shooters Siege of Petersburg." Numeric notation on verso: "158" and "15."

GLC05111.01.1023

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Cannonball in front of trench at Petersburg

The image shows three cannonballs in front of a trench at Petersburg with a fence in the background on top of the hill. Numeric notation on recto: "3336." Inscription on verso: "Mine in front of Petersburg" "Dup" and "From P." Numeric notations on verso: "391" and "3336."

GLC05111.01.1024

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Bombproof restaurant, Petersburg

The image shows a man sitting in front of a bombproof restaurant with a sign: "Fruit & Oyster House" and scattered trees in the surrounding landscape. Numeric notation on recto: "180." Inscription on verso: "Bomb-proof restaurant on the Petersburg line." Numeric notations on verso: "180" "48" and "1051."

GLC05111.01.1043

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Planing mill at Petersburg

The image shows a bombed planing mill in the background with an open road in the foreground. Inscription on verso: "Petersburg, Va. Planing mill showing effects of bombardment." Numeric notations on verso: "98" and "1104."

GLC05111.01.1062

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Fortress Monroe, as seen through a tree-lined, brick path. [1861-1865 ca.]

A tree-lined path, with a man near the middle of the path, leading to the large Fortress Monroe, Va. Inscription on verso: "Avenue Fortress Monroe." Numeric Notation on verso: "49."

GLC05111.01.0712

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Brick path inside Fortress Monroe, Va.

Man sitting to the left of the road, a boy standing against a tree, and two men and a boy sitting in the left middleground. "Ghost" image on far right--standing man [an effect that ocurred when a person was moving while the picture was being taken] with notations inscribed in top right corner. Incription on verso: "Avenue inside Fortress Monroe." Numeric notation on verso: "77."

GLC05111.01.0713

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: 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 verso: "136."

GLC05111.01.0723

1856-1870 ca.

Header Record

Title: Civil War photograph collection: Brady, Gardner; Lincoln [separate inventory]

Word processed inventory available. Approximately 2000 photographs, mostly period, from the Civil War era. Includes battles, portraits, group portraits of regiments and officers, medical photographs (3), retouched original prints or photographs with the prints made, salt prints, photographers proof prints, and 6 negatives (Lee, Longstreet, Porter, the Capitol). Places include Gettysburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Bull Run, Petersburg, Richmond, Port Hudson (La.), Edisto Island and Fort Sumter, among other military areas, and Washington, Springfield, New York, and others. Important images…

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