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032-003227772 Material Type Photographs

11. 1784.a.13, 1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(4)
Title:
Stone Church, Centreville, Va. March, 1862 Photographer: Barnard and Gibson
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View looking towards the small stone church, with a group of soldiers posed in the foreground: 'Perched upon the gentle slope of the ridge that bears its name, and looking across fertile fields to the mountains that rise up grandly hiding the West, Centreville had smiled ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mar 1862
Extent:
1 item

12. 1784.a.13, 1(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(17)
Title:
Military bridge, across the Chickahominy, Va. Photographer: Woodbury, D. B.
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View from the riverbank looking towards the bridge, with a large group of soldiers posed on the structure: 'The picture is taken at a point where the accumulated waters most presented the character of a stream, the swamp being in some places all of a mile in width, and su...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

13. 1784.a.13, 1(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(19)
Title:
Antietam Bridge, MD. September, 1862. Photographer: Gardner, Alexander
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View looking down onto the stone bridge over Antietam Creek, with wagons crossing, near the site of the Battle of Antietam: 'This structure … is one of the most memorable spots in the history of the war, although but little suggestive in its present sunny repose, of the s...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Dec 1862
Extent:
1 item

14. 1784.a.13, 1(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(9)
Title:
Ruins at Manassas. March, 1862. Photographer: Barnard and Gibson
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View of railway remains at Manassas Junction after the Confederate retreat: 'Everything was destroyed, except half a dozen cars … The old wooden turn-table was uninjured, and is a fair sample of the old fashioned equipage of the Orange and Alexandria Road, at this period....
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mar 1862
Extent:
1 item

15. 1784.a.13, 1(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(50)
Title:
The halt. May, 1864. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography Portrait of a Union officer reclining on the ground, his horse beside him and a second figure in the background: 'There is nothing particular in the picture to account for this little halt, but those who recognize the officer, may possibly give a shrewd guess at his reaso...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1864
Extent:
1 item

16. 1784.a.13, 1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(3)
Title:
Fairfax Court House, Va. June, 1863. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View looking towards the brick courthouse, with troops on horseback beside the well in the foreground: 'The village of Fairfax Court-House, Virginia, eighteen miles from Washington, was, previous to the rebellion, one of the loveliest of the State … Each of the many comma...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1863
Extent:
1 item

17. 1784.a.13, 1(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(10)
Title:
Ruins at Manassas Junction. March, 1862. Photographer: Barnard and Gibson
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View looking over the railway junction, with a group of soldiers posed casually for the photographer in the right foreground.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mar 1862
Extent:
1 item

18. 1784.a.13, 1(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(15)
Title:
Moore House, Yorktown, Va. May, 1862. Photographer: Wood and Gibson
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View of the dilapidated house, with a group of army officers in the garden in the left foreground. It was here that Washington and Cornwallis met in Ocotber 1781 to arrange capitulation terms. 'When the Army of the Potomac invested Yorktown, the Moore House was in excelle...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1862
Extent:
1 item

19. 1784.a.13, 1(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(14)
Title:
Mortar Battery No. 4, near Yorktown, Va. May, 1862. Photographer: Wood and Gibson
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography 'This represents one of the batteries planted for the bombardment of Yorktown … The mortars of Battery No. 4 were of thirteen inch calibre, and required great labor to place them in position. As the fire of mortars is entirely a work of calculation, it is not necessary fo...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1862
Extent:
1 item

20. 1784.a.13, 1(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(25)
Title:
Pontoon bridge, across the Potomac, at Berlin. November, 1862. Photographer: Gardner, Alexander
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View looking across the river towards the village of Berlin, with the pontoon bridge on the left: 'The photograph only shows the village and a small portion of the Maryland shore, from which no adequate impression can be formed of the beauty of the surrounding scenery. Th...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1862
Extent:
1 item