Civil War Photography

OER Texts on this topic:

• Photography and the Civil War (1861-65)

• Alexander Gardner’s Photographs of the Civil War

Photographic Archives on this topic:

• National Archives, Matthew Brady

• Library of Congress, Civil War Collection

Open Access Images freely available to use on this topic:

Photographer not known, [Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters], [between 1863 and 1865], AMB/TIN no. 5001 [P&P],  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Matthew Brady, General Alfred T.A. Torbert, ca. 1860–ca. 1865, Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.) 1858- ?

Matthew Brady, Frederick Douglass, 1880, 2005.100.754, Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Matthew Brady, General Robert E. Lee, 1865, 2005.100.1213, Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alexander Gardner, Abraham Lincoln, 1863, 1976.627.1, Warner Communications Inc. Purchase Fund, 1976, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alexander Gardner, Group at Secret Service Department, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Antietam, October 1862, 1862, 1970.537.8, Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1970, The Metropolitan Museum of Art