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Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 2(61)
Title:: Commissary Department, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac [at Brandy Station]. February, 1864 Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography General view of the timber and canvas commissary building, with officers and men posed in front.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Feb 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 2(62)
Title:: U. S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps. April, 1864. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography Showing a construction team erecting telegraph wires, with men perched at the top of the poles: 'This sketch represents the Telegraph Construction Corps of the Army of the Potomac putting up the wire. The Corps was composed of about one hundred and fifty men, with a requi...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Apr 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 2(70)
Title:: Army repair shop. February, 1864 [A field workshop in the Ninth Army Corps, before Petersburg]. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View of the tents of the repair shop, with craftsmen posed at work in front: 'The tent fly, with its partial walls of loose bricks, covers the forge. Around it are the wheel and harness-makers, evidently resting, with pleasing expectations of forming a dominant feauture o...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Feb 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 2(74)
Title:: Poplar Grove Church [Petersburg]. February, 1865. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View of the slender spired wooden church, with a group of soldiers posed in front: 'Too great a measure of praise cannot be bestowed upon a more noble and industrious body of men than the Fiftieth New York Volunteer Engineers. In the midst of great demands made upon their...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Feb 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 2(76)
Title:: A fancy group. Front of Petersburg, August, 1864. Photographer: Knox, David
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography Group of members of the Army of the Potomac seated in front of tents, with two negro men holding cocks which they are about to release to fight: 'The monotony of camp life [during the siege of Petersburg] was relieved by every variety of amusement that was known, or could...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Aug 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 2(77)
Title:: Forge scene. Front of Petersburg, August, 1864. Photographer: Knox, David
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography 'This photograph represents one of the forges used by the army at Petersburg, and was taken during the intense heat of a summer day. The trees in the distance are dimly seen through the tremulous air, and the pine twigs droop from the eaves of the hut as if a a fire had s...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Aug 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 2(79)
Title:: The Pulpit, Fort Fisher, N. C. January, 1865. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View looking down into the protected area in the fort, with figures posed for the camera. The capture of Fort Fisher, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, closed off the port of Wilmington against blockade runners.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jan 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 2(94)
Title:: A burial party, Cold Harbor, Va., April, 1865. Photographer: Reekie, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography Showing a black soldier posed beside a barrow, on which are piled the skulls, rotting clothes and other remains of Union soldiers who had died at Cold Harbour in 1862. In the background, out of focus, a party of soldiers digs up the remains of the fallen: 'This sad scene ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Apr 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.14(41)
Title:: Prisoners saying mass — Sunday morning — Chincha Islands. Photographer: Moulton, Henry
Scope & Content:: View of the open-air service in progress in the little wooden church also seen in print, with soldiers guarding the prisoners.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 1(29)
Title:: Tartar soldiers. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of Chinese soldiers, gathered in a courtyard or garden, with a pagoda rising in the background: 'The reader cannot fail to be struck with the fine manly build and soldierly appearance of the Tartar artillery-men shown in the photograph....
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870-1872
Extent:: 1 item

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