A Photographic Sketchbook
Alexander Gardner (1821-1882)
"The Home of a Rebel
Sharpshooter, Gettysburg"
in Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook
of the Civil War
Albumen silver print, 1863
Prints & Photographs Division
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In 1863, after successfully managing Mathew Brady's Washington
photographic studio, Alexander Gardner opened his own gallery. Gardner
published the first collection of photographs documenting the civil
War in 1866. His Photographic Sketchbook, a two volume
set containing one hundred mounted photographs, documented architectural
sites located near battlefields, war damage, soldiers in camp, and
the grim aftermath of combat. Gardner photographed the dead body
of Private Andrew Hoge from the Fourth Virginia Infantry three days
after the bloody battle of Gettysburg.
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