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Description: Image numbers: 6, 7, 22, 29. Two photographs by Mathew Brady, 1862.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1862-1880s.
Call number: photCL 305
Provenance: Purchased from Gertrude M. Nicholson, through the agency of Robert O. Schad, September 1922. This album was received as part of the Nicholson collection of papers, manuscripts and books related to the Civil War.
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Photograph album

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An album of photographs of groups of people gathered for reunions and commemorations of the Civil War, chiefly in the 1880s. The album contains albumen prints, 7 x 9 inches, mounted on board, with no handwriting or identifications, though many appear to be at Gettysburg. Some groups are posed at battlefield monuments that reveal locations, such as one at Little Round Top, and another of five veterans posed with historian John B. Bachelder at the 29th Ohio Infantry Monument, Gettysburg. Men are often wearing badges or ribbons with a star, and sometimes military hats. A few women also appear in the groups. Two photographs depict crowds gathered to hear a speaker on a platform, and another shows a group standing in front of a tree posted with a sign reading "Here is where Gen. Reynolds was killed, July 1, 1863." Identified photographers are: P. S. Weaver (view of a group on Culp's Hill at Gettysburg), W. H. Tipton, Rile, and Rile & Kerns. Two mounted photographs by Mathew Brady, 1862, were laid in the album: "No. 207. Soldiers' Graves at Bull Run" and "No. 237. Ruins at Manassas." The Brady images and two others loose from the album are housed in Box 2.

photCL 305

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Photograph album of groups of Civil War veterans at battlefield sites, and related images

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An album of photographs of groups of people gathered for reunions and commemorations of the Civil War, chiefly in the 1880s. The album contains albumen prints, 7 x 9 inches, mounted on board, with no handwriting or identifications, though many are at Gettysburg. Some groups are posed at battlefield monuments that reveal locations, such as one at Little Round Top, and another of five veterans posed with historian John B. Bachelder at the 29th Ohio Infantry Monument, Gettysburg. Men are often wearing badges or ribbons with a star, and sometimes military hats. A few women also appear in the groups. Two photographs depict crowds gathered to hear a speaker on a platform, and another shows a group standing in front of a tree posted with a sign reading "Here is where Gen. Reynolds was killed, July 1, 1863." Identified photographers are: P. S. Weaver (view of a group on Culp's Hill at Gettysburg), W. H. Tipton, Rile, and Rile & Kerns. Two mounted photographs by Mathew Brady, 1862, were laid in the album: "No. 207. Soldiers' Graves at Bull Run" and "No. 237. Ruins at Manassas." The Brady images and two others loose from the album are housed in Box 2.

photCL 305

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Loose, mounted photographs from album

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Image numbers: 8, 9, 11, 21, 33, 37

photCL 304

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Matted photographs from album

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13. Wheatfield in which General Reynolds was shot, Gettysburg, July 1863. Photographer: Attributed to Egbert Guy Fowx, for Mathew B. Brady studio. 15. View of Mathew B. Brady at the Gettysburg battlefield, July 1863. Photographer: Attributed to Egbert Guy Fowx, for Mathew B. Brady studio. 51.Battle-Field of Gettysburg. View on the Field after Fight of First Day, July 4, 1863. Photographer: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

photCL 307

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Matted photographs from album

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Image numbers: 45-46 (double-sided board with two photographs); 50, 51.

photCL 306

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Abraham Lincoln

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Copy of photograph by Mathew Brady, 1864. Marked in pencil on back of image: "Handy[?] Photographer."

(photDAG 113)

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