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Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
The third scrapbook contains around 410 images spread over 60 pages. Taylor used this scrapbook to catalog images and other material relating to the Union and Confederate Navies. This volume holds many steel engraving and woodblock prints of naval officers. Print material in this scrapbook also lists many of the sailors killed at sea and includes an exhaustive descriptive list of Union vessels. The most frequently covered event in this scrapbook is the Battle of Hampton Roads.
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Visual Materials
The first scrapbook of the Taylor collection is the largest of the three with 108 pages and some 730 images. This scrapbook also has the most diverse group of images, with no specific unifying theme running throughout. However, in general, the first scrapbook focuses on battlefield sites, carnage and destruction of war, and the notable military personnel. Taylor dedicated many pages to battles at Antietam and Gettysburg. The pages for both battles contain many images of dead soldiers by Alexander Gardner, James Gibson, Timothy O'Sullivan, and others, as well as portraits of the Generals and their staffs, and views of the land and buildings of the battlefield. Another important series in the first scrapbook are images and text related to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the execution of the conspirators. These pages contain five of Alexander Gardner's ten image series depicting the execution of the Lincoln conspirators in Washington, DC, on July 7, 1865.
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Visual Materials
This collection consists of 3 disbound scrapbooks of American Civil War photographs, clippings, and original artwork compiled by illustrator James E. Taylor. The combined 246 pages of the three 15 x 12-inch scrapbooks hold over 1,530 items including images (often uncredited) from noted Civil War photographers such as Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, George N. Barnard, Andrew J. Russell, J. D. Edwards, and others. Some of the photographic prints are possibly one of a kind. The scrapbooks focus on the Eastern Theater of the war, primarily depicting locations and events in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Included in the scrapbooks are views of battlefields, street views of towns, buildings and ruins, military camps, field hospitals, portraits of Civil War generals and soldiers, and images of casualties and battle scenes. Along with photographs, Taylor included handwritten annotations as well as supplementary ephemera material and clippings from newspapers and magazines. Taylor compiled each page deliberately, and the photographs assembled on a page tend to relate to one another, specifically or loosely, though the pages themselves do not follow a strict chronological, geographical, or thematic progression. In some cases, Taylor grouped the images in terms of specific events, but also in categories like military prisons or feats of military engineering. Additionally, there are several loose pencil and pen-and-ink sketches by Taylor located at the end of volume 2. A couple of the sketches appear to be in a finished state, while others are possibly preparatory sketches. While most of the images are contemporary to the Civil War, the scrapbooks are undated. Annotations and clippings suggest that Taylor began collecting materials after the Civil War, but primarily compiled and annotated the scrapbooks in the early 1880s, with additions being made through the end of the 19th century.
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Collection of 3 disbound scrapbooks of Civil War photographs, clippings, and some original artwork compiled by illustrator and Civil War correspondent James E. Taylor, presumably in the mid 1880s. The scrapbooks contain over 1,530 items including images from noted Civil War photographers Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, George N. Barnard, Andrew J. Russell, J. D. Edwards, and others, as well as handwritten annotations by Taylor and supplementary ephemera and clippings from contemporary newspapers and magazines. Some of the photographic prints are possibly one of a kind. The scrapbooks focus on the Eastern Theater of the war, primarily depicting locations and events in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Included in the scrapbooks are views of battlefields, street views of towns, buildings and ruins, military camps, field hospitals, portraits of Civil War generals and soldiers, and images of casualties and battle scenes. There are several loose pencil and pen-and-ink sketches by Taylor located at the end of volume 2.
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Manuscripts
Scrapbook kept created by Fannie Taylor of Saint Louis, Missouri, in the 1850s. The newspaper clippings, illustrations, poetry, and other printed material glued into book, appear to be glued onto a business account book possibly belonging to John Foster, also of Saint Louis. There are other names written in the volume.
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Collection of 3 disbound scrapbooks of Civil War photographs, clippings, and some original artwork compiled by illustrator and Civil War correspondent James E. Taylor, presumably in the mid 1880s. The scrapbooks contain over 1,530 items including images from noted Civil War photographers Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, George N. Barnard, Andrew J. Russell, J. D. Edwards, and others, as well as handwritten annotations by Taylor and supplementary ephemera and clippings from contemporary newspapers and magazines. Some of the photographic prints are possibly one of a kind. The scrapbooks focus on the Eastern Theater of the war, primarily depicting locations and events in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Included in the scrapbooks are views of battlefields, street views of towns, buildings and ruins, military camps, field hospitals, portraits of Civil War generals and soldiers, and images of casualties and battle scenes. There are several loose pencil and pen-and-ink sketches by Taylor located at the end of volume 2.
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