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Pontoon bridge crossed by Gen. Ord, at Akin's [Aiken's] Landing [& two additional images]. [October 1864]

Title taken from text and penciled inscriptions on recto. Pencil inscription continues: "Siege of Petersburg." Photograph on recto shows a pontoon bridge with soldiers sitting in a few of the pontoons about mid-way across the bridge. The bridge...

GLC05111.01.0295

Arlington House, Barns and Soldiers' Barracks, No. 256. [29 June 1864]

Group of Federal soldiers posed in clearing. Wooden buildings visible behind them. Man in white frock coat in the center operates surveying equipment, while man in front of him holds a guidon and a man behind him holds a large umbrella....

GLC05111.01.0296

Coal Wharf, Alexandria, Va. [view 1 -- right side of wharf]

View showing the right side of the wharf. Two men sit along the bank of a river, staring out at boats docked at the wharf. A woman's skirt is visible in the left-hand foreground. The steam boat "South America" is prominent in the center of the image...

GLC05111.01.0297

Coal Wharf, Alexandria, Va. [view 2 -- left side of wharf]

View showing the left side of the wharf. Steamboat "South America" visible in center of the image. Carts are lined up near the buildings. Tents visible on the left hand side of the image.
Note: This photograph, although very similar to GLC 5111...

GLC05111.01.0298

Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-'44

Published by Gales and Seaton. First edition. Inscribed to Samuel Marx by James Buchanan, with his signature. Recounts Frémont's 1842 expedition to Oregon, the second of his three expeditions. The folding map has been removed from the book (see...

GLC05103.01

[Presidential pardon of Thomas McNaney, convicted of assault and battery, and resisting arrest].

Countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward.

GLC05104

Report of Lieutenant General U.S. Grant, of the armies of the United States--1864-'65

Inscribed to John Sherwood on the title page. This is Grant's last report to Congress on the conclusion of the war. With provenance notice on later flyleaf from Sherwood to his son.

GLC05105

[Deed for sale of lot number 54]

Bruce, former United States Senator from Mississippi, signs as the recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. Hugh Nelson and James W. Greer sign as trustees, transmitting the lot to Charles H. Gladden. Howard M. Norris signs as notary public.

GLC05108

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...

GLC05111

White House, Washington, D. C. [Tad Lincoln standing in front] [unique]

A print of a photograph taken by Henry F. Warren of Waltham, MA of the White House. Probably taken on March 6th, 1865, as Warren photographed Lincoln at the White House on that date (Ostendorf no. 112 & 113). The photograph is of the Northern facade...

GLC05111.01.0005

Re-Inauguration of President Lincoln, 4th March, 1865.

One photograph entitled, "Re-Inauguration of President Lincoln, 4th March, 1865," taken by Alexander Gardner. Image is of crowds at·the Capitol Building during Lincoln's inauguration on march 4, 1865. Negative by Wm. H. Smith. Positive by A. Gardner...

GLC05111.01.0006

Wing of the Capitol building with flag at half-staff.

A print of a photograph taken of the Grand Review of the Union Army on May 23rd, 1865. The photograph shows the north wing of the US Capitol building with the camera facing south-west. There is a large crowd in front of the Capitol, presumably...

GLC05111.01.0011

Long bridge from a little above 14th Street

A salt print of a photograph taken of the Long Bridge in Washington, D.C. circa 1862. The camera is facing nearly due south. The picture must have been taken before 1864 when a second bridge was completed shortly downriver, as it is not present in...

GLC05111.01.0017

Successful intermediate excision of the head, neck and trochanters of the right femur.

One undated photograph entitled, "Successful intermediate excision of the head, neck and trochanters of the right femur," tatken by Charles Milton Bell. Image is of Private Hugh Wright of New Jersey. Printed description on verso describes Wright's...

GLC05111.01.0032

Simple fracture of the middle third of the left femur, united without deformity.

One photograph entitled, "Simple fracture of the middle third of the left femur, united without deformity," taken by Charles Milton Bell dated August 1865. Image is of Lieutenant A. W. Starkweather of Indiana, who was thrown from his horse at Black...

GLC05111.01.0033

Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville, VA. March, 1862.

One photograph entitled, " Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville, VA," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. Published by Philp & Solomons. Page taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War. Volume...

GLC05111.01.0035

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."...

GLC05111.01.0036

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...

GLC05111.01.0037

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...

GLC05111.01.0038

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...

GLC05111.01.0039

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...

GLC05111.01.0040

[Sassacus-class gunboat]

A print of a photograph taken of a US Navy riverine patrol boat during the Civil War. It is a steam double-ended sidewheel gunboat of what is popularly referred to as the "Sassacus"-class. Built for patroling rivers, many were deployed to Virginia...

GLC05111.01.0043

Incidents of the War. No. 203. General Johnston's Headquarters, Centreville.

One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the War. No. 203. General Johnston's Headquarters, Centreville," taken by Mathew Brady dated 1862. Image is of uniformed men in front of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's Headquarters.

GLC05111.01.0047

[Portrait of Major Sidell]

A salt print of a photographic portrait of a man identified as Maj. Sidell. Heavily touched-up by Brady studio artists. Posibly an original painting and not a photograph. Research brings up a William Henry Sidell, born 1810 in New York, NY. Sidell...

GLC05111.01.0054

to Eliza Brooke, Jr.

News of a Quaker community in Philadelphia, where she had recently moved. Includes comments on the marriage of local couples. Signed "D. Payne."

GLC05102