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Civil War - photographs including Gardner, Brady, Russell: Gettysburg, Antietam [word processed inventory available]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03588 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1863-1865 ca. Pagination: 15 photographs + collateral (2 text plates) 31 x 40 cm Order a Copy

Photographs by Gardner (8 from Sketch Book and Incidents), George N. Barnard (3 from western campaigns: Chattanooga), Andrew J. Russell (1 Gen. Foster's Line) and 2 anonymous of Brattleboro, VT. There are also two unaccompanied text plates from Gardner's Incidents.

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