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Quaker Gun, Centreville, Virginia
Photograph by George N. Barnard, March 1862. Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative.
Quirow Demo ArchiveCivil War Photography
The Camera at War
Barnard, Gardner, and O'Sullivan, 1862–1866
1861–1866
The Civil War was the first American war photographed at length. The camera could not catch a battle in motion, so the photographers worked before and after: earthworks, camps, ruined buildings, officers on porches, and the dead. This exhibit follows three photographers who began with Mathew B. Brady and then published their own work.
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Ruins of Mrs. Henry's House, Battlefield of Bull Run
Photograph by George N. Barnard, March 1862. Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative.
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Military Telegraphic Corps, Army of the Potomac, Berlin, October 1862
Photograph by Alexander Gardner, 1862. Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative.
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A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, July 1863. Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative.
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Gardner's Gallery, 7th and D Streets, Washington, D.C.
Photographs by Alexander Gardner, 1864. Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative.
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Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, Georgia, No. 2
Photograph by George N. Barnard, 1864. Medium: Albumen silver print.
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City of Atlanta, Georgia No. 2
Photograph by George N. Barnard, 1866. Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative.
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Savannah, Georgia, No. 2
Photograph by George N. Barnard, 1866. Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative.
Civil War Photography. Archived by Quirow Demo Archive.
Exhibit created with Quirow.