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The American Civil War was the first war in history whose intimate reality would be brought home to the public, not only in newspaper depictions, album cards and cartes-de-visite, but in a popular new 3D format called a "stereograph," "stereocard" or "stereoview." Millions of these cards were produced and purchased by a public eager to ...
A significant later effort to collect and publish photos of the American Civil War in an almost duplicate manner as the 1911 release, was the National Historical Society's 2,768-page The Image of War, 1861–1865 in six volumes under the overall auspices of renowned Civil War historians William C. Davis and Bell I. Wiley as senior editors. [3]
A Civil War soldier from Parma, Ohio, was the original owner of this portrait, published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on February 12, 1942, from a print in the Anthony L. Maresh collection. Possibly it is a photographic copy of one of two daguerreotypes, both now lost, taken in Ohio. [15] 1858 (?) Springfield, Illinois Photographic copy unknown
American Civil War prison camp survivor, author unknown (restored by Jujutacular) Andersonville Prison , by John L. Ransom (restored by Jujutacular ) John F. Reynolds , by Alfred Rudolph Waud (edited by Jujutacular and Papa Lima Whiskey )
A Harvest of Death, 1863.. A Harvest of Death is the title of a photograph taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, sometime between July 4 and 7, 1863.It shows the bodies of soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, stretched out over part of the battlefield.
Image credits: Vachon, John,, 1914-1975,, photographer To prove his theory, Maxwell photographed a tartan ribbon three times using red, green, and blue filters. He then projected the three images ...
Having invested us in the difficult world of war photographers, who balance compassion with the emotional distancing required to do their jobs, "Civil War" ends up whiffing on that topic.
Zeller's book The Civil War in Depth reproduces many of these images the way they are supposed to be seen, instead of just half shown in 2-D. Indeed, the picture of Brady in a straw hat shown in this article is reproduced as a stereoscopic side-by-side image on page 12 of The Civil War in Depth. Mathew Brady's photographers created many of the ...