Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)

Images depict military personnel and facilities, primarily from a Union perspective. Includes the main Eastern theater, the federal navy and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, the war in the West, Washington, D.C., African Americans, fortifications, battlefields, preparations for battle and the aftermath of battle. Also, many portraits of officers and enlisted men, and of federal and confederate government members, including Abraham Lincoln and his assassins.Collection title devised.Most photographs were taken during the American Civil War under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady. Photographers represented by more than 20 images include George N. Barnard, Alexander Gardner, James Gibson, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, and William Morris Smith.Includes some 7,200 wet collodion glass negatives, 8 x 10 in. or smaller, and 66 modern black-and-white photographic prints, 8 x 10 in. or smaller. The prints are copies made by the Library ca. 1960 of ambrotypes, tintypes, and other portraits of enlisted men in private collections.Captions for individual photos come from information on the negatives, paper sleeves that housed the negatives, and log books prepared by the Library from these sources and reference works. (The Library's original log books are in the P&P Supplementary Archives.)Washingtoniana : photographs : collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress / Kathleen Collins. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1989, pp. 36-44.Selections from Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eaton Collection Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1961, reprinted 1977.Special Collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980, no. 48Most from purchase; Phelps Publishing Co.; 1943.Some from gifts; various sources; ca. 1950-1961.The bulk of the photographs were selected from the Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eaton Collection by the Library of Congress for inclusion in a microfilm in 1961. Additional images of enlisted men were selected from various sources by the Library's American Memory project. Additional information about the collection's history is available online at, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpabt.htmlFinding aid (published): 1,047 of the images have captions in a booklet that accompanies a published microfilm with reproductions of negatives.A set of catalog records describing each item is available through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. See http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lcoa1.abou