Civil War Historical Photography

Stereoscopic images capturing the 1st South Carolina Colored Regiment and other historical military scenes from the Civil War era.

Group of Civil War soldiers overlooking a bridge; American; about 1862 - 1864; Albumen silver print

Dress parade of the 1st South Carolina Colored Regiment. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1880 - 1891. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865, African American soldiers, United States. Army. South Carolina Volunteers, 1st (1862-1864)

Three bagpipes players for a decor with trees and mountains ..

Bird's-eye view, Colt's Armory. Connecticut valley scenery, via Valley Railroad. 38. 1885. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Connecticut, Hartford (Conn.), Colts Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co.

General view of San Juan Hill, showing Bloody Pond, Cuba (looking west) , Battlefields, Spanish-American War, 1898

Native American Hunters concentrated from the "whole boundless continent" to the government reservation;...after Billy Bruin.... Unknown maker, American

Group of Civil War soldiers overlooking a bridge; American; about 1862 - 1864; Albumen silver print

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Columbus, Kentucky in front of tent with African American boy. Title devised by Library staff. African Americans, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, Military camps, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, Military life, Union, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

Fort Sumter, 1865. Charleston & vicinity. 48. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. South Carolina, Charleston (S.C.), Forts & fortifications , South Carolina , Charleston

Our boys in the trenches. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1880 - 1891. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Dazell Tanks, Pennsylvania. Unknown maker, American

Colored Convalescent Soldiers resting after a march, at Aiken's landing, James River, Va.. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

Utica Citizens' Corps, Camp Greenman, Saratoga Springs, 1869. 1869. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Saratoga Springs (N.Y.), Military bands, Militias, Camps

Col. Lansing's headquarters, 17th New York Hales Hill, Va. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia

Army wagon going to commissary depot, City Point, for supplies. The war for the Union, photographic history. 1861 - 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Reception after the earthquake in San Francisco, Tom M. Phillips, 1906 stereograph. photomechanical print San Franciscopublisher: Chicago cardboard fugitives resting, camping San Francisco

Advancing across an open field - Japan's sturdy soldiers at Port Arthur , Soldiers, Campaigns & battles, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

View of battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa.. William H. Tipton (American, 1850 - 1929)

The start on the Grant Hunt. No. 1. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1870 - 1895. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Nebraska, Indians of North America

Sand bag fortifications at Yorktown, Va. The war for the Union, photographic history. 1861 - 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Officers tent, Camp Alger, VA , Military camps, Tents, Soldiers, Horses, Spanish-American War, 1898, Camp Russell A. Alger Va.

British artillery shoots the farmers at the mud river, South Africa, Anonymous, 1900 stereograph Modderrivierpublisher: New York (city) (possibly) cardboard. paper albumen print battle (+ artillery). firearms: cannon Modder River

In the heart of a banana plantation, Hawaiian Islands. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1896. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Hawaii, Banana plantations

Dead horses of Bigelow's (9th Massachusetts) Battery. Civil War Photograph Collection, No. 266. Dead animals, Pennsylvania, Gettysburg, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Animals.

Graves of the six men hung at Andersonville, Ga., July 11th, 1864 / photographed and published by Engle & Furlong, Fernandina, Fla. | Library of Congress

Men in front of mine. Hoosac Tunnel Route. Hurd & Smith (American, active 1867 - 1900)

View of war graves from British soldiers from the second farmer's war in South Africa; Where The Fallen Heroes Lie - Graves Of Royal, Innishillings And Dublin Fusiliers - Foot Of Hart's Hill, Colenso, S.A ...

Peloton soldiers ..

Camp of the 71st N. Y. Vols.; cook house; soldiers getting dinner ready. The war for the Union, photographic history. 1861 - 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

South Paris, May 30, 1876. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Maine, Oxford County (Me.)

Scene at 'Camp Andrew' , Cavalry, Spectators

Flagstaff. Norman's Artistic studies of National Cemetery. 31. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi, Natchez (Miss.)

Commissary department of Philadelphia city troop , Military life, Soldiers, Military camps, Military exchanges

View of West Point. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Military training , United States, United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)

Devil's Den, Gettysburg, Pa., June 25, 1892. Group posing at Devil's Den. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Gettysburg (Pa.), Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pa.)

A soldier stands to attention, next to the field gun and carriage of the Calcutta Volunteer Battery. This was part of the Indian Expeditionary Force recruited on the outbreak of war, and members started to arrive in East Africa from September 1914. Original manuscript caption: "On Guard''.

Brussels. Waterloo. Belgium..

Dining tent , Centennial celebrations, Dining tables, Interiors, Tents, Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775

View of bombproof tents occupied by U.S. colored troops in front of Petersburg, Va., August 7, 1864 | Library of Congress

Camp at the crossing of the Colorado, just below the mouth of the Grand Canon.... Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, about 1840 - 1882)

Ditch and "Chevaux de frise" in front of the Union Fort Sedgwick. The war for the Union, photographic history. 1861 - 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

The refugee camps and shelters at Ft. Mason after the earthquake and fire disaster, San Francisco , Disaster victims, Refugee camps, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906

Felice Beato, Exterior of North Fort Showing the English Entrance, August 21, 1860, 1860 Exterior of North Fort Showing the English Entrance, August 21, 1860

Old battlefield, Fredericksburg, Virginia - Piedmont Plateau. No renewal in Copyright office. J261038 U.S. Copyright Office, No. 23479. Cows, Virginia, 1920-1930, Battlefields, Virginia, Fredericksburg, 1920-1930, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Battlefields.

All the live stock left on Mr. Gill's plantation after the Battle of Gettysburgh.. Studio of Mathew B. Brady (American, about 1823 - 1896)

Old Spanish well. Southern Stereoscopic Views, no. 11. 1885. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Georgia, Wells

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Columbus, Kentucky sitting at table with African American boys. Title devised by Library staff. African Americans, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, Military camps, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, Military life, Union, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

Confederate soldiers as they fell at the Battle of Antietam. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1862 - 1865. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Testing a new British Siege Train Gun at Orange River, S. Africa..

Soldiers invest an ambush in the Camp de Châlons, Anonymous, 1857 stereograph Mourmelon-le-Grand cardboard. photographic support albumen print surprise attack (from ambush). private soldier

The Arlington National cemetery at Arlington, Va. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia, Arlington (Va.)

View of downed trees. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1878. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Connecticut, Tornadoes , Connecticut , Wallingford, Natural disasters, Trees

Pueblo Tesuque Series. Mex. Plow, Old Noah's Patent, used by Tesuque Ind's.. William Henry Brown (American, 1844 - 1886)

Bombproof quarters of Maj. Strong, at Dutch Gap. 16th N. Y. Artillery. The war for the Union, photographic history. 1861 - 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Japanese infantry forming into squares to receive charge of Russian Cossacks , Firearms, Soldiers, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

In Washington, Ct.. Unknown maker, American

H(arriet) B(eecher) Stowe home in Florida. Unknown maker, American

The Peace Commission Tent, and Stone on which Gen. Canby was sitting when shot.. Eadweard J. Muybridge (American, born England, 1830 - 1904)

Description: British forces in Canton. Location: Canton, China Date: 1910-1912 china, asia, asiathroughalens

1st Delaware, 12th New Jersey, and 14th Connecticut, at Stonewall, U.S.A. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia

Canton. Group of Sailors in the Garden of the Allied Commissioners' Yamun..

The place where Major-General McPherson was killed, near Atlanta, Ga. War views. 1861 - 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Union picket line in front of the Rebel Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers "Fort Damnation," Richmond, Va. The war for the Union, photographic history. 1861 - 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

The last drop - a scene on the battlefield at Dordrecht, South Africa, Dec. 30th , Soldiers, Campaigns & battles, War casualties, South African War, 1899-1902

Navy Yard on board steamer Ohio. American scenery, tourist series. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Decks (Ships), Cannons, Charlestown Navy Yard (Mass.)

Detail of a bas relief at the base of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. Boston views. 1877. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Boston Common (Boston, Mass.), Parks , Massachusetts , Boston, United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865 , Monuments, Bas-reliefs, United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865 , Naval operations

U.S. frigate "Pensacola," off Alexandria, Va. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1880 - 1891. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Graves of Officers Who Fell at the Gate Pah, circa 1880, Dunedin, by Burton Brothers.

War views. No. 1501, Camp life, Army of the Potomac - writing to friends at home. Title from item, No. 1501, Date of photograph, regiment, and location from notations on photograph from the same negative in the custody of American Antiquarian Society, (DLC/PP-2012:069.14). United States, Army of the Potomac, People, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, 1860-1870, Writing, 1860-1870, Correspondence, 1860-1870, Sewing, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military life, Union.

View from east angle parapet of Ft Sumter Charleston Harbor S. C. facing Morris Island. The war for the Union, photographic history. 1861 - 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Soldiers' National Cemetery, Va.. Unknown maker, American

Men working a field. Unknown

Rev. C.F. Preston and Friends, on the Parade Ground, Canton. Showing north-east Gate of City Wall in the distance.. Milton M. Miller (American, 1830 - 1899)

From the Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg. Gen Gibbon's Brigade repelling Pickett's Charge. Wonders and beauty of Western scenery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Gettysburg (Pa.), Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pa.)

Japanese Infantry, Yokohama, Japan 1869 Unknown The carte de visite, a format comprised of an approximately 2 x 4 inch photograph mounted to card stock, was perhaps the most ubiquitous of nineteenth-century photographs. The French studio portrait photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri?first patented the carte in 1854. His innovation of exposing not just one but eight photographic images on the same glass plate negative enabled cartes to be made cheaply and reproduced on a mass scale. During the late 1850s and throughout the latter half of the century, these economical keepsakes depicting portraits of loved ones, celebrities, monarchs, and foreign types circulated en masse and spurred a veritable "cartomania." Collected in albums, traded among friends, and admired in drawing rooms, cartes put photography in the hands of virtually everyone, and thus offered a means of reflecting upon one’s own social standing in an ever-expanding world.. Japanese Infantry, Yokohama, Japan. Unknown

The Evacuation of Fort Sumter, April 1861 April 1861 Edward Anthony American. The Evacuation of Fort Sumter, April 1861 302677

Red River Carts in Camp at St. Anthony, Minnesota. About 1857.. Unknown maker, American

Artillery pieces in trenches during the war of 1870, anonymous photography. (IT)

Shipping, as seen through the foliage from the top of Drury's Bluff. View of confederate war batteries on James River. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1862 - 1865. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Funeral procession of Abraham Lincoln, New York City. Attributed to Peter F. Weil (American, active New York, New York 1860s - 1870s)

West Point N. Y.. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Military training , United States, United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)

Shore batteries, West Point. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Military training , United States, United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)

Belgian soldiers getting forage ready for the cavalry , Soldiers, Foraging, Grasses, World War, 1914-1918

Piet Cronjé, General of the Farmers, was trapped by the British at the mud river, Anonymous, 1901 stereograph Modderrivierpublisher: New York (city) (possibly) cardboard. paper albumen print prisoner of war (after the battle) Modder River

Officers on the lookout at Cathcarts Hill. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

View at Savage Station Photographic incidents of the war. No. 468. 1861 - 1871. Photographs, Stereographs. Manuscripts and Archives Division. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865, Carts & wagons, Railroad cars

John Brown's Grave, North Elba. 1885. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Brown, John, 1800-1859 , Tomb, North Elba (N.Y. : Town)

Encampment of cadets ... Po'keepsie. 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Poughkeepsie (N.Y.), Cadets, Tents

True grit. Barber painting sign on tent stretched on sidewalk of former place. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1906. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, San Francisco (Calif.), Earthquakes , California, San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906, Signs (Notices), Business enterprises, Tents

The Johnstown calamity searching for bodies and clearing the wreck , Disasters, Floods, Rescue work

Bowling Green, On the arrival of the Prince of Wales in New York. View No. 3. D. Appleton & Co. (American, founded 1831, merged 1933)

Arrival of the Governor at the City Hall under the escort of the Cavalry of the Seventh Regiment, June 18, 1860. Instantaneous View. The Japanese Embassy in New York - Scenes and Incidents. 1859 - 1899. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.), Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), Military parades & ceremonies, Spectators, City Hall (New York, N.Y.), Morgan, Edwin D. (Edwin Denison), 1811-1883

Entrance to the Mine in the Rebel Fort Mahone, called by the soliders "Fort Damnation."...after the storming of Petersburgh, Va.. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

Genl. Francis Scott Key's statue, Golden Gate, San Francisco. 1890. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, San Francisco (Calif.), Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.), Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843 , Monuments

Interior of Fort Sumpter, Charleston Harbor, S.C., April 14h, 1865. Henry Ward Beecher delivering the Oration..raising old flag.. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

Flood view -- W. Main St., under water , Crowds, Floods, Streets

Camp views near rebel prison. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia, Richmond (Va.)

Soldiers' Monument, Charlestown, decorated by 5th Maryland regiment. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1875. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, Centennial celebrations , Massachusetts , Boston, United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865 , Monuments

Confederate hospital at Cedar Mountain. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1862 - 1865. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

View of breastworks on Round Top, the hill which formed our extreme left at the Battle of Gettysburg. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1862 - 1865. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Statue for Antietam Monument, at R.I. Granite Works, (front view), Westerly.. Charles Seaver, Jr. (American, active 1850s - 1870s)

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