Historical Civil War Photographs

Stereographs depicting the Civil War, featuring Union lines, siege trains, and military encampments, captured in sepia tones with a historical context.

Small? Island, Marble Head Mass , Bodies of water, Sites

Inside view of Union line from Cemetery to Round Top. Meade's Headquarters in the foreground. Round Top in the distance. Stereo gems of Gettysburg 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.)

Great siege train, 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

View of Conaies Battery. 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

Stockade, showing the Officers' Quarters.. Blackshear & Laramore

Views of the ruins caused by the tornado at Wallingford, August 9th, 1878, when 31 persons were killed, and 34 wounded , Tornadoes

Heroic Washington Volunteers advancing against Filipinos , Firearms, Soldiers, Campaigns & battles, Philippines, History, Philippine American War, 1899-1902

Park of army wagons, City Point, 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

Field Day, East N. Y. 37th reg. "rest" in column by company. Anthony's Stereoscopic views. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Long Island (N.Y.), Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)

Small? Island, Marble Head Mass , Bodies of water, Sites

Burial of dead at Fredericksburgh, 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

Sketches of Irish Life. At Punchestown Races.. Attributed to George Washington Wilson (Scottish, 1823 - 1893)

B.W.W. Dam Division, Dam III, North Center wall and grading looking south. 1877. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Dam construction

Collecting remains of the Union dead. 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

Navy Yard, Charlestown. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Mortars (Ordnance), Charlestown Navy Yard (Mass.)

Fort Rogers, Alexandria. "400# gun." 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia

Gordon Signalers at Euslin receiving the word "Relieved" by heliograph from Kimberly (Feb. 20), S. Africa..

Reproduction of a painting: Chełmoński, Józef (1849-1914), Night; from: "Świat" 1906, (24), 3. Świat (Warszawa ; czasopismo ; 1906-1939), publisher

Environs of Washington, - A commanding spot for a Camp, with signs of camping.. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

Burying the Russians killed in the desperate fighting on 203 metre hill in besieged Port Arthur , Gravedigging, Soldiers, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

Foret de Fontainebleau, Le Chasseur. Unknown maker, French

Rear view of the 13-inch Mortar "Dictator" in the works of Petersburg, Virginia September 1, 1864. Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection). United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Petersburg.

The quarries, Rockport, Mass. New series, American views. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Rockport (Mass.)

Interior of Fort Sumter, 1863-65. ("Madly disfigured but still in the ring.") 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

People among the debris near the railroad bridge, Marinette, Wisconsin 1880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin, Railroad bridges, Disasters

The Union line before Petersburg. 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

Wheeler's New York Battery coming into Action, Battle of Gettysburg. U.S.A. a painting. John F. Jarvis (American, born 1850, active Washington D.C.)

A typical Sakkiyeh, showing method of operation. Egypt.. Carleton H. Graves (American, 1867 - 1943)

Parade Gnomio, Canton. Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)

Unidentified view of the fire in Boston, November, 1872. 1872. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Fires , Massachusetts , Boston, Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872

Init Houwitser, Anonymous, 1914 - 1918 stereograph cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print firearms: cannon

Woods on the left wing, Battle of Gettysburgh.. Studio of Mathew B. Brady (American, about 1823 - 1896)

After deck and turret of Monitor Kaatskill. Taken at Charleston Harbor, S. C.. 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

Shells from 200 Japanese guns shattering E. Keikan Fort. Port Arthur , Bombardment, Campaigns & battles, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

Peloton soldiers, Anonymous, 1855 - 1875 tissue stereograph photographic support. paper. cardboard albumen print / cutting the soldier; the soldier's life

North Sea Landing, Flanders(). Unknown

Effect of the bombardment, Petersburgh, 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

Yorktown fortifications, a silenced gun. 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

Battle Field of Atlanta, Ga., July 22d, 1864. No. 2. George N. Barnard (American, 1819 - 1902)

Marching France Soldier, Anonymous, c. 1860 - c. 1880 stereograph France cardboard. photographic support albumen print marching away (troops). private soldier

undefined. 1885 - 1906. NARA's Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle, WA). Photographic Print. Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Fisheries. 1903-1913. Government Agents' Records Pertaining to the Pribilof Islands

Group of Coyetero Apaches, near Camp Apache, Arizona.. Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, about 1840 - 1882)

Flip-flap militia. African American boys with wooden rifles. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. South Carolina, Southern States

Encampment of 7,000 rebel prisoners in the Punch Bowl, Belle Plain, Va., May 15, 1864. 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

Wallingford tornado , Debris, Tornadoes

Cadets' barracks. American views, Hudson River, West Point series. 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.)

Sea wall battery, West Point. American scenery. 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.)

Cooking Dinner for the Hungry Soldiers.. Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)

Ft. Mason refugee campers and their belongings saved from the flames of burning San Francisco. 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, Tents, Fort Mason (Calif.)

Contraband Camp - Harper's Ferry, Va.. John P. Soule (American, 1827 - 1904)

The Army of the Potomac. Looking up Pennsylvania Avenue from the Treasury buildings, Maj. Gen. Humphrey and staff, and 2d Army Corps passing in review. 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 Warwicks skirmishing with Boers near Weppener, east of Bloemfontein, South Africa , Firearms, Soldiers, Campaigns & battles, South African War, 1899-1902

Cannon being fired. D.J. Lindsay (American, active 1880s)

View of pontoon bridge over the James River. 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

On the battlefield at Gettysburg. Union dead. 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

Army and Navy Hospital. Stereoscopic views of Hot Springs and surroundings. 109. 1887. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arkansas, Hot Springs (Ark.), Veterans hospitals

The Seven Regiment in front of the Union Hotel, - - - Saratoga Springs, N.Y., July 23d, 1869.. Deloss Barnum (American, 1825 - 1873)

17th Penn's Cavalry Monument. Artistic stereo gems of Gettysburg 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.)

Soldiers in Uniform in the Camp de Châlons, Anonymous, 1857 stereograph Mourmelon-le-Grand cardboard. photographic support albumen print the soldier; the soldier's life. private soldier

The Johnstown calamity. Searching for bodies and clearing the wreck. Barker's stereoscopic gems of American scenery. 1889. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Johnstown (Pa.), Floods , Pennsylvania , Johnstown

Navy Yard, E. Totherick, Operator. 1875. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (D.C.), Railroad tracks, Naval yards & naval stations, Anacostia River (Md. and Washington, D.C.)

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.)

View from the Prospect house showing a man looking through a telescope. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Holyoke, Mount (Mass.)

Federal breastworks on Culp's Hill, position carried by Confederates. July 2, 1863. Stereo gems of Gettysburg 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.)

View from the Union Fort Sedgwick, called by the Rebel soldiers "Fort Hell."...taken...after the storming of Petersburgh, Va.. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

Sebastopol with the Redan, Malakoff & Mamelon - Colonel Shadforth seated in the foreground, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Roger Fenton historic war campaign photo

Taking Japanese guns after the bombing of Shimonoseki (1863-1864) by British troops, 1863 - 1864 photograph Part of Robert Daniel Crommelin (1841-1907) photo album. Shimonoseki paper. photographic support albumen print battle (+ naval force). firearms: cannon (+ land forces) Shimonoseki, Straat van. Shimonoseki

Bursted gun in Battery Rosecrans. Haas & Peale (American, active 1846 - 1867)

Henry's Battery. Haas & Peale, photographer (American, active 1846 - 1867) 1863 Multiple soldiers stand next to several cannons. (Recto, sheet) lower center, light green ink: "Photo by Haas & Peale Morris Island & Hilton Head S.C."; (Recto, sheet) lower right, letterpress label in black ink: "No.22. - Two sections Henry's Battery - 12-pounder Howitzers/, in Second Parallel" (Verso, sheet) lower left, in pencil: "28";

Col. Williams' Monument, near Bloody Pond , Battlefields, Monuments & memorials

An Avenue in General Hospital No.9, Bloemfontein, S.A...

Looking from Johannesburg Fort toward Jeppertown (showing old Boer Gun), Boer War, South Africa..

View of Culemborg, 1672; Photos of Drawings of the French raid in the Netherlands in 1672 by Adam Frans van der Meulen preserved in the Manufacture des Gobelins.Photo of a Drawing with a Panoramic Face on Culemborg, Reached by the French Army in July 1672. Part of a Series or Photos of Drawings of Conquered Cities During The French Raid in The Netherlands in 1672.

Landing of the French Atlantic telegraph cable on Duxbury Beach. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Plymouth County (Mass.)

Fortress Monroe the gun yard., 1850 - 1930, Virginia, Albumen prints

Waiting in trenches near Arras for our creeping barrage to lift before pushing on..

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

Camp scene - Fortress Monroe. Unknown maker, American

Atlanta, Georgia. Sherman's men destroying railroad. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Devonshire Street. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1872. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Fires , Massachusetts , Boston, Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872, Ruins , Disasters, Rubble

Album of photographs and newspapers on the Prussian Franco War and the municipality of Paris, 1870-1871. Rue de Rivoli, 1st arrondissement, Paris. Album of photographs and newspapers on the Franco-Prussian War and the municipality of Paris, 1870-1871. "Rue de Rivoli, Paris (IER ARR.)". Draw on albuminum paper. Around 1855-1865. Anonymous photography.

On the Fighting Line with the Queen's Soldiers, Modder river, S. Africa..

Confederate Artillery captured at Missouri (i.e. Missionary) Ridge headquarters Army of the Cumberland. No. 8123, Title from item, Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. V, p. 69", Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Tennessee.

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

Scene at Mrs. Allsop's, Pine Forest, Near Spottsylvania Court House Va., on the Morning of the 20th May, After Ewell's Corps.... Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, about 1840 - 1882)

Captured Mexican Mortars, West Point.. John P. Soule (American, 1827 - 1904)

Sling for heavy artillery. Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative may be available: LC-B811-1152. Cannons, Virginia, 1860-1870, Carts & wagons, Virginia, 1860-1870, Soldiers, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies.

Dutch Gap Canal and Group of Soldiers; taken after the bank was blown out. On the extreme end a portion...call Jeff. Davis..

A Council of War at Lee's Mills.. Willis G.C. Kimball (American, 1843 - 1916)

Summer St. corner of Otis St. The Summer Street Fire. Boston, Nov. 9 and 10, 1872.. Unknown maker, American

The turret of the Monitor shows fifteen marks where she was hit by rebel shot... War views. 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, Monitor (Ironclad), Gun turrets, Warships

Ordnance park, Charlestown Navy Yard. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Cannons, Charlestown Navy Yard (Mass.)

The "Norman" at the wharf with the Lancashire Fusiliers abroad, Cape Town, South Africa..

Jerusalem. - Turkish Tombs and Arab Shepherds. From near the Golden Gate.. Frank Mason Good (English, 1839 - 1928)

View of a plain with buildings in the background and in the foreground a number of men in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Anonymous, 1901 stereograph Bloemfonteinpublisher: New York (city) (possibly) cardboard. paper albumen print the soldier; the soldier's life Bloemfontein

Confederate Artillery captured at Missionary Ridge at headquarters - Army of the Cumberland. No. 4141, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Home of the rebel sharpshooter : Gettysburg. Home of a rebel sharpshooter, Gettysburg, July, 1863.. 1865. Photographs. Manuscripts and Archives Division. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865, Battlefields , Pennsylvania , Gettysburg

In camp at last with him. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota, Hunters, Camping

National cemetery, 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.)

Taking the heavy Naval Guns across the Vet River - Lord Roberts' advance on Pretoria, South Africa..

Hall's Outfit Breaking Camp.. A.J. Russell (American, 1830 - 1902)

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