Object Details maker Gardner, Alexander Description Volume I and Volume II of Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War were published in 1866. Each album contains fifty photographs of different ...

Webinar in which curator Shannon Thomas Perich presents Civil War-era photographs to show how photography was incorporated into everyday lives, and how we value those photographs today as historical ...

For the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, we asked him to retrace the steps of Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner. We wanted to capture the same scenes with the same equipment ...

CIVIL WAR]. GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882), photographer. Ruins of Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge, Richmond, Virginia. Ca 1865 ,circa 1865 albumen print 6 1/2 x 8 3/8 in. Estimate: Result: ...

My attention focused on a photograph by the celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner. Taken at Fort Laramie, in what is now Wyoming, in spring 1868, it depicts six white men standing in ...

How One Photographer Recreated 19th Century Portraits With the Descendants of Civil War Heroes Smithsonian magazine commissioned Drew Gardner for a project that connects Black Americans today to ...

It is my major criticism of "This Republic of Suffering" that it fairly ignores Civil War photography. There is scant mention of Alexander Gardner and no mention of Timothy O 'Sullivan, though it ...