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1866
Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882)
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War. 2 Vols.
These albums are in the original format, showing photographs taken while in Brady's studio. Depicts Antietam, Gettysburg, Petersburg, etc.
GLC03547
[n.d]
Unknown
Sperling, Jno V.
Pencil inscription on verso: "Jno. V. Sperling 1st Lt., Co. 'U' 1st W.T.I. of A.D., Corinth, Miss, Port Washington, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio." Vignette bust portrait in uniform with moustache and beard. White mount with gold border.
GLC03565.29
June 1865 ca.
[Hanging of Henry Wirz]
With pencil notes on verso: "752" and "XXVIII."
GLC03596
1864
United States. Sanitary Commission.
Narrative of privations and sufferings of United States officers & soldiers while prisoners of war in the hands of the Rebel authorities.
Title continues, "Being the Report of a Commission of Inquiry, appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission. With an Appendix, containing the Testimony." Reprints the report of the Commission of Inquiry, appointed by the U.S. Sanitary...
GLC03597
1864 ca.
Burnside, Ambrose Everett (1824-1881)
6th plate Ambrotype portrait of the General in uniform, in frame
GLC03686
1831
Various
[Forty six pamphlets on Indian affairs. Decimalized]
The first items is a pamphlet printing correspondence between Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun during the Seminole Indian War. This is accompanied by eight congressional pamphlets on the Cherokee Indians and an additional thirty seven on various...
GLC03776
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Correspondence Beween Gen. Andrew Jackson and John C Calhoun President and Vice-President of the U.States
a pamphlet printing correspondence between Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun during the Seminole Indian War.
GLC03776.01
Usher, John Palmer, 1816-1889
Claims for the Depredations by Sioux Indians
38th Congress 1st Session Ex. Doc No 58 House of representatives
GLC03776.11
18 May 1842
Cooper Mark A. (fl 1842)
Defense of the State of Georgia
27th Congress 2nd Session Doc. No. 229 House of Represenatives
GLC03776.31
29 March 1844
Johnson, Cave (fl. 1844)
Claims Arising Under the Cherokee Treaty
28th Congress 1st Session Rep. No. 391 House of Represenatives
GLC03776.39
1862, 1890
Handy, L.C.
Carte de visite of Fitz-John Porter
Colonel in the U.S. Army from May 14, 1861. Brigadier General Vol. May 17, 1861. Major General Vol. July 4, 1862. With autograph note and bio on verso. Image ca. 1862, printed ca. 1890.
GLC03854
1865
[Carte de visite of George Armstrong Custer]
Printed by M. B. Brady & Company. Included with 4007.01 on bookshelf.
GLC04007.02
20 May 1834
United States. Congress (23d, 1st session : 1834). House.
Regulating the Indian Department
House report submitted by Horace Everett, a representative from Vermont. Contains tables and documents related to United States treaty obligations, removal of Native Americans, and missionary work. Bound in back is a large folding map of the Indian...
GLC04132.01
1850
Johnston, Joseph Eggleston (1807-1891)
Reports of the Secretary of War, with reconnaissances of routes... [in Texas]
Full title: "Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso. By Brevet Lt. Col. J.E. Johnston...Capt. R.B. Marcy's Route From Fort Smith to Santa Fe...Expedition into the Navajo Country; and also the...
GLC04134
1853
United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Report of an expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers
By Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves of the Corps of Topographical Engineers. Senate Executive Doc. 59 printed by Robert Armstrong, public printer. An important contribution to the knowledge of Arizona topography, Indian ethnology, and fauna of the desert...
GLC04154
Brady, Matthew B. (ca. 1823-1896)
Sherman and his Generals
One image entitled, "Sherman and his Generals," taken by Mathew Brady dated 1865. Image is of General Sherman and his generals taken shortly after the end of the war. The label beneath the image identifies the men and their ranks. They are from left...
GLC04172
circa 1886
Bell, Charles Milton, ca. 1849-1893.
[Portrait of Surgeon General John Moore]
Three quarter length standing portrait of Surgeon General Moore in dress uniform. With rubber stamp on verso, "C.M. Bell. 463 & 465 Penna. Ave. Washington, D.C." Moore wears his dress uniform complete with epaulets, belt buckle, sash, dress belt...
GLC04196.01
1865 ca.
Bell, Charles Milton (1849-1893)
Genl. Jno. Moore, U.S.A. Brig Gen'l.
Cabinet card signed on mount: "Genl. Jno Moore, U.S.A. Brig. Genl." Red imprint of C.M. Moore, Washington. With faint blue stamp in upper right corner "John B. Moore, Office of Internal Records, Washington." Moore is dressed in his army uniform...
GLC04196.02
1848
Mexico. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores.
Tratado de paz, amistad, limites y arreglo definitivo entre la Republica mexicana y los Estados-Unidos de America [In Spanish]
Title continues "Concluido por los plenipotenciarios en Guadalupe Hidalgo el 2 de febrero, ratificado en Washington el 10 de marzo, y en Querétaro el 30 de mayo de 1848." Bilingual Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican War. First complete...
GLC04257
1862/10/03
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
The President, General McClellan and suite on... Antietam [by Gardner]
GLC04346
4 September 1951
Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972)
Address of the President at the Opening of the Conference on the Japanese Peace Treaty
Inscribed to Oscar Ewing as a Christmas present. Dated 25 December 1951. No. 32 of 60 copies privately printed for Truman to give as Christmas presents.
GLC04400
19 May 1824
The Committee on Foreign Relations
[Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs on Piracy around Cuba and Puerto Rico from the 18th Congress]
Printed report "Of the Committee on Foreign Affairs to which was referred so much of the President's message, as relates to Piracies committed on the Commerce of the United States, in the neighborhood of the Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico." Says the...
GLC04604.01
1862
Fox, Gustavus Vasa (1821-1883)
Reports of the naval engagements on the Mississippi River
Title continues as: "resulting in the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and the City of New Orleans, and the destruction of the rebel naval flotilla." Printed by the Government Printing Office. This first edition copy was owned by Assistant...
GLC04608
7 February 1803
Varnum, Joseph Bradley (1751-1821)
Report of the Committee Appointed on so much of the President's Message of the 15th December last...
Title continues: "As Related to the Militia Institution of the United States." Argues that when a 1792 Act (GLC01959) establishing a uniform militia is carried out by the states it will provide complete national defense. Not all states have carried...
GLC04626.02
circa 1861-1866
Colfax, Schuyler (1823-1885)
[Photograph album of Major Schuyler Colfax]
Album belonging to Schuyler Colfax with over one hundred cartes des visite of New York, Washington, famous policians and other sights. Includes forty outdoor cartes of New York City by E & H.T. Anthony; 16 of Washington and environs by Gardner and...
GLC04689
1856
Perry, Matthew Calbraith (1794-1858)
Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854...
Title continues: "Under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the Government of the Unites States. Compiled from the original notes and journals of Commodore Perry and his officers, at his request, and under his...
GLC04720.02
Barnard, George N. (1860-1866)
Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign [complete album of 61 photographs]
This is the complete album as published, and is more complete than GLC 2833 (36 photos). This album includes "Sherman and his Generals" and most of Sherman's campaign from Chattanooga, through Atlanta and Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek...
GLC04953
4 March 1865
Inaugural address. March 4, 1865.
Printing of Lincoln's historic second inaugural address which he delivered on the steps of the Capital 4 March 1865. This is the official edition printed by the U. S. Government Printing Office.
GLC04958
circa 1918
unknown, fl. 1918;
[Photograph of U.S.S. George Washington]
One sepia-tone silver gelatin print of the ship that transported President Woodrow Wilson to Europe to sign the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. Co-signed by President Wilson, Secretary of Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Captain Edward...
GLC04993
1863-1864
[General orders, 1863, no. 1-400 (3 vols), and 1864 no. 1-380 (3 vols)]
Bound copies of general orders for 1863 and 1864 printed by the Government Printing Office. Includes Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863 #1), "Regulations for the care of field works, and the government of their garrisons" (1863 #45), Lincoln...
GLC05061
1861-1865 ca.
[Joseph Hooker]
GLC05066
United States. Congress (38th, 1st session : 1864)
[House report no. 65 regarding the Fort Pillow massacre and no. 67 regarding returned prisoners of war]
Contains a full report of the April 1864 battle at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, based on an investigation of the battle itself, as well as the operations of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest "and his command immediately preceding and subsequent...
GLC05080.06
Brady, Mathew B. (ca. 1823-1896)
Harpers Ferry, Va.
Writing on mount misidentifies the scene as Richmond, Va.
GLC05087
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885)
Report of Lieutenant General U.S. Grant, of the armies of the United States--1864-'65
Inscribed to John Sherwood on the title page. This is Grant's last report to Congress on the conclusion of the war. With provenance notice on later flyleaf from Sherwood to his son.
GLC05105
1856-1870 ca.
Civil War photograph collection: Brady, Gardner; Lincoln [separate inventory]
Word processed inventory available. Approximately 2000 photographs, mostly period, from the Civil War era. Includes battles, portraits, group portraits of regiments and officers, medical photographs (3), retouched original prints or photographs with...
GLC05111
circa 1867
Bell, Charles Milton (1848-1893)
Successful intermediate excision of the head, neck and trochanters of the right femur.
One undated photograph entitled, "Successful intermediate excision of the head, neck and trochanters of the right femur," tatken by Charles Milton Bell. Image is of Private Hugh Wright of New Jersey. Printed description on verso describes Wright's...
GLC05111.01.0032
August 1865
Simple fracture of the middle third of the left femur, united without deformity.
One photograph entitled, "Simple fracture of the middle third of the left femur, united without deformity," taken by Charles Milton Bell dated August 1865. Image is of Lieutenant A. W. Starkweather of Indiana, who was thrown from his horse at Black...
GLC05111.01.0033
March 1862
Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville, VA. March, 1862.
One photograph entitled, " Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville, VA," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. Published by Philp & Solomons. Page taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War. Volume...
GLC05111.01.0035
Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville. March, 1862. No. 2.
One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville. March, 1862. No. 2," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. Page taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War. Incidents of the War."...
GLC05111.01.0036
Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville. No. 3. March 1862.
One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville. No. 3. March 1862," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. Image shows two Quaker guns and several men posed near the interior wall of the fort. View...
GLC05111.01.0037
Incidents of the War. Ruins at Manassas. No. 1. March, 1862.
One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the War. Ruins at Manassas," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. This page was taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War." Image is of a young boy, a dead horse, and a Federal...
GLC05111.01.0038
Incidents of the War. Ruins of Stone Bridge, Bull Run. No. 2. March, 1862.
One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the War. Ruins of Stone Bridge, Bull Run," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. This page was taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War." Image is of debris from bridge lying in the...
GLC05111.01.0039
Ruins at Manassas Junction. No. 9. March, 1862.
One photograph entitled, "Ruins at Manassas Junction," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. Image is of ruins of several buildings used by the Confederate railroad company, Orange and Alexandria, as a depot. The remains of a few mud huts...
GLC05111.01.0040
[Sassacus-class gunboat]
A print of a photograph taken of a US Navy riverine patrol boat during the Civil War. It is a steam double-ended sidewheel gunboat of what is popularly referred to as the "Sassacus"-class. Built for patroling rivers, many were deployed to Virginia...
GLC05111.01.0043
Incidents of the War. No. 203. General Johnston's Headquarters, Centreville.
One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the War. No. 203. General Johnston's Headquarters, Centreville," taken by Mathew Brady dated 1862. Image is of uniformed men in front of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's Headquarters.
GLC05111.01.0047
1861-1863
[Portrait of Major Sidell]
A salt print of a photographic portrait of a man identified as Maj. Sidell. Heavily touched-up by Brady studio artists. Posibly an original painting and not a photograph. Research brings up a William Henry Sidell, born 1810 in New York, NY. Sidell...
GLC05111.01.0054
1861
[Col. E. D. Baker, in civilian dress]
A salt print of a photographic portrait of Edward D. Baker. With the following note: "Given to me by Father 2/10/1955 in his store room as we examined the negatives together. This is a Brady photograph which had been extensively touched up by a Brady...
GLC05111.01.0055
[Colonel Keith, in civilian clothing, touched-up by Brady]
A salt print of a photographic portrait of Colonel Keith. Research has not identified him. On verso in graphite: "No 24," "Col Keith," and "This salt print which was made in Brady's gallery and touched up for reproduction. F.H. Meserve."
GLC05111.01.0056
Fawx, Egbert Guy
Falles [sic] Church in VA
A print of a photograph of a two-story brick building. Union officers posed on horses in front of Falls Church, VA where George Washington once worshipped. It was a favorite tourist site for soldiers passing through. On the inside of the church's...
GLC05111.01.0069
April 1865
[Gen. William Hoffman & staff at the Office of Commissary General of Prisoners, Washington D.C.]
A print of a photograph of General William Hoffman and three others. Hoffman is the man leaning against the banister on the right hand side of the image. He and two other men are standing on the steps of the building beneath a sign reading: "Office...
GLC05111.01.0122
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