circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Swiveling cannon in fortifications overlooking waterway

The image shows a cannon built on a swiveling platform inside fortifications. Two men stand on either side of the cannon, one wears civilian clothes. A waterway is visible in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "49" and "XII."

GLC05111.01.1151

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: James C. Duane, vignette bust portrait, bird insignia on shoulder strap

Graphite inscription on verso "Col Duane." Ink inscription on verso "James C. Duane. [struck: Brig. Gan. Vols.] Maj. Engrs. & Bv't Brig. Gen. U.S.A. Brig Gen., Chief of Engineers, U.S.A. Oct. 11, 1886." Photographers imprint on verso: "Alex. Gardner, Photographer to the Army of the Potomac. Galleries 511 Seventh Street and 332 Pennsylvania Av. Published by Philp & Solomons, Washington D.C." Cancelled blue two-cent tax stamp on verso.

GLC05111.02.0349

1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: The Execution of Mrs. Surratt and the Lincoln assassination conspirators

Contemporary print of the famous Brady negative, showing the bodies hanging. Printed with red margin mounts by Taylor and Huntington. Brady photograph catalog list on back of the mount.

GLC06341

1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Lewis Powell]

Carte de visite of Lincoln assassination conspirator Lewis Powell. Inscription on mount shows known aliases "Payne, Wood, Hall," and reads "arrested as an associate of Booth in the conspiracy." Powell had attempted to kill William H. Seward.

GLC05909

1862

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of workmen posed outside Government Wheelwright shop]

Large unmounted photograph showing many workmen standing next to large wheels and wheeled gun carriages.

GLC07365

27 April 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of Lewis Payne]

Inscribed on verso: "Lewis Payne Conspirator. Hanged." Photograph shows Payne (also known as Lewis Powell) in wrist irons aboard the U.S.S. Saugus. The photograph is mounted on board.

GLC07738.01

27 April 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of Samuel Arnold]

Inscribed on verso: "Samuel Arnold. Conspirator. Imprisoned for life at Ft. Jefferson Fla. (Dry Tortuges) Pardoned by President Johnson. Released March 21, 1869." Photograph shows Arnold wearing a dark coat, vest, and tie; facing slightly to the right. Arnold is imprisoned aboard the U.S.S. Saugus.

GLC07738.02

27 April 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of George A. Atzerodt]

Inscribed on verso: "George A. Atzerodt Conspirator. Hanged." Photograph shows Atzerodt wearing a heavy coat and hat, imprisoned on the U.S.S. Saugus. The photograph is mounted on board.

GLC07738.03

27 April 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of Edward Spangler]

Inscribed on verso: "Edward Spangler. Conspirator." Photograph shows Spangler in wrist irons imprisoned aboard the U.S.S. Saugus. Spangler is wearing a dark heavy coat and is facing slighlty to the right. The photograph is mounted on board.

GLC07738.04

27 April 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of David Herold]

Inscribed on verso: "David E. Herold Conspirator. Hanged July 7, 1865. Was with Booth in the barn, but surrendered and came out before the barn was set on fire." Photograph shows Herold wearing coat, vest, and tie, in wrist irons, aboard the U.S.S. Montauk. The photograph is mounted on board.

GLC07738.05

April 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Unknown suspect

Photograph of a suspect later identified as Captain Joao Celestino. Photograph shows Celestion wearing a heavy coat and facing slightly to the left. The Photograph is mounted on board.

GLC07738.06

27 April 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Unknown suspect

Photograph of a suspect later identified as Ernest Hartman Richter. Shows Richter sitting with his hands folded and wearing a coat aboard the U.S.S. Saugus. The photograph is mounted on board.

GLC07738.07

27 April 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of Michael O'Laughlin]

Inscribed on verso: "Michael O'Laughlin." Shows O'Laughlin in wrist irons, wearing a jacket, vest, and tie. He is facing slightly to the left and is imprisoned aboard the U.S.S. Saugus. The photograph is mounted on board.

GLC07738.08

27 April 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of Michael O'Laughlin]

Inscribed on verso: : Michael O'Laughlin Conspirator. Imprisoned for life. Died of yellow fever Sept. 23, 1867 at 7 a.m." Photograph shows O'Laughlin in wrist irons, wearing a dark jacket, vest, tie, and hat. He is facing right and is imprisoned aboard the U.S.S. Saugus.

GLC07738.09

April 14, 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of John Howard's livery & sale stables]

Inscribed on verso: "the livery stable from which the horse was hired that Booth ran away after shooting President Lincoln April 14, 1865." Also includes #7767 and a stamp for Kemp, Photographers, 137 S. Broad St., Trenton, N.J. The photograph is mounted on board.

GLC07736

27 April 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Lincoln assassination conspirators]

Nine large plate albumen prints of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. Secret Service head Colonel Lafayette C. Baker selected Gardner to take the photographs of the conspirators while in they were in custody, awaiting trial aboard the U.S.S. Montauk and the U.S.S. Saugus. Decimalized, GLC07738.01-.09

GLC07738

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: As major general, standing 3/4 length napoleonic portrait

Graphite inscription on recto "A N Smith." Ink isncription on verso "A.N.S." Photographers imprint on verso: "Alex. Gardner. Photographer to the Army of the Potomac. Galleries 511 Seventh Street and 332 Pennsylvania Av. Published by Philp & Solomons, Washington D.C."

GLC05111.02.0740

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Charles Howard, as brigadier general, vignette bust portrait

Mount trimmed. Graphite inscription on verso "C. H. Howard. B'vt Brig. Gen. Vols." Photographers imprint on verso: "Alex. Gardner, Photographer to the Army of the Potomac. Galleries 511 Seventh Street and 332 Pennsylvania Av. Published by Philp & Solomons, Washington D.C." Cancelled blue two-cent tax stamp on verso.

GLC05111.02.0484

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Seated with left knee crossed over right, long hair and beard

Graphite inscription on verso "Alex Gardner himself." Photographers imprint on verso: "Gardner Corner 7th & D Sts. Washington, D.C."

GLC05111.02.1050

September 1862 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph signed

Title: [Lincoln with McClellan, Porter, and the Fifth Army Corps]

On a Brownstone silver print photograph with cloth mount. The mount is inscribed by Porter to Mrs. Eddy. Ink notes on front identify the group as Lincoln, McClellan, Capt. Custer, Gen. Porter, Gen. Humphreys et al. Post Civil War print based on a Gardner negative. Probably 1880s or later, per Mary Schobert, CCAHA.

GLC01143

1892

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Albumen print of Lincoln & McClellan at Antietam [published by Gardner]

Print by Moses Rice, 1892. Reproduction from a negative by Alexander Gardner, 1862. Cf. Ostendorf 66.

GLC00591

June 1864

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Ulysses S. Grant and staff after Battle of the Wilderness]

Twelve men with Grant, in front of tent, holding map. At Cold Habor, Va. Meade is seated with map on knee. Sedgewick standing at right with map, with other staff members; he was killed shortly after this picture was taken. Also included in the photograph is Ely Parker. Col. Rawlins sits at far left, John G. Barnard sits with hands in lap at center near Parker. Published in William C. Davis Photographic History of the Civil War v.2 p.679. (Previously printed as The Image of War).

GLC00588

July 1863

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg.

One photograph entitled, "Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg taken by Alexander Gardner dated July 1863. Image is of a corpse of a Confederate Army soldier. Gardner includes a brief vignette in which he describes visiting the site four months after the battle to find the soldier's "skeleton" still laying there, undisturbed and fully uniformed.

GLC00552

1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Platinum Rice Print of Ulysses S. Grant]

Copyright notice written on lower left corner "1902". Portrait of Grant seated. From the original imperial negative by Gardner. Moses Rice is believed to have been assistant to Brady or Gardner during the war, after which he opened his own studio; apparently, he also kept negatives.

GLC00553

1861-1865 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Group portrait of Civil War officers at the front by Gardner

19 men seated and standing in two rows in various poses.

GLC00557