Rare Books

Scenes on the Battlefield of Antietam from Photographs by Mr. M.B. Brady

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Description: Images from Harper's Weekly are sketches pulled from photographs taken by M. B. Brady. Includes dead soldiers and dead horses on battlefield, wounded under tents improvised with fence rails, and the bridge over Antietam Creek.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: October 18, 1862
Call number: 499752
Dimensions: 34-41 cm
Associated people: Bonner, John, (1828-1899.); Curtis, George William, (1824-1892.); Alden, Henry Mills, (1836-1919.); Conant, Samuel Stillman, (1831-1885?); Schuyler, Montgomery, (1843-1914.); Foord, John, (1842-1922.); Davis, Richard Harding, (1864-1916.); Schurz, Carl, (1829-1906.); Nelson, Henry Loomis, (1846-1908.); Bangs, John Kendrick, (1862-1922.); Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, (1864-1928.); Hapgood, Norman, (1868-1937.); Hague, James D. (1836-1908,)
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Brady's Album Gallery series photographs of the Civil War
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