Crimean War

map from "Travels to the Seat of War in the East, through Russia and t...

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Bomarsund während dem Bombardement am 15. Aug. 1854

Harbour of Balaklava looking towards the Black Sea

The town, Forts and Harbours of Sebastopol. Taken from the Illustratio...

map from "The War in the Crimea ... With portraits and plans"

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Verwoest gebouw in Sebastopol

Haven van Balaklava, plaats voor militaire bevoorrading

music from "Travels to the Seat of War in the East, through Russia and...

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5 November 1854 from "The War in the Crimea ... With portraits and pla...

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Haven van Balaklava met schepen en tenten, tijdens de Krimoorlog

Quartermaster Hill, 4[th] Light Dragoons, the horse taken immediately ...

Quartermaster Hill, seated on horse, facing left. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944... More

Major Radcliffe, 5th Dragoon Guards

Major Radcliffe, full-length portrait, facing front.

Ismail Pacha & Mr. Thompson of the Commissariat - Roger Fenton's Crime...

Ismail Pacha (Hungarian general Kmety), and Mr. Thompson, seated on gabions; three attendants, one holding a horse, standing behind them. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Eastman House... More

Colonel Lowe, [i.e., Low] 4th Light Dragoons & servant in winter dress

Colonel Low, full-length portrait, facing left, standing beside horse and wearing winter coat and hat; another man is standing in front of the horse and facing the camera. Bell tents in the background. Title tr... More

General Cissé, chief of the staff to General Bosquet, & aide-de-camp

Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

General Bosquet giving orders to his staff - Roger Fenton's Crimean Wa...

General Pierre Bosquet standing between four officers, gesturing to the left. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs. Purch... More

A hot night in the batteries / W. Simpson delt. ; E. Walker lith.

Print shows action in a British artillery battery with cannons firing and being loaded, and men bringing in supplies. Title from item. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most... More

Captain Clifford, aide-de-camp to General Buller - Roger Fenton's Crim...

Captain Clifford, in uniform, astride a horse, facing front. Title transcribed from verso. Photograph marked for cropping with horizontal line across bottom and vertical line at left. Purchase; Frances M. Fento... More

Second charge of the guards - when they retook the two gun battery at ...

Print shows British and Russian troops engaged in battle during the battle of Inkerman. Title from item. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / ... More

Camp of the naval brigade, before Sebastopol / W. Simpson del. ; E. Wa...

Print shows bell tents at a British military camp and "Mr. Maxse, Naval Aide-de-Camp," on horseback with Captn. Burnet, Captn. Peel, Captn. Lushington, and Captn. Moorsom and other men from the naval brigade in... More

Major Morris, C.B., Royal Artillery - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photo...

Charles Henry Morris seated on horse facing left with bell tent in the background. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

The cavalry affair of the heights of Bulganak - the first gun, 19th Se...

Print shows expansive view of the countryside, the Russian cavalry and artillery in the distance, Russian guns opening fire on British troops as they draw up into formation. Title from item. Plate in: The seat ... More

Charge of the heavy cavalry brigade, 25th Octr. 1854 / W. Simpson del....

Print shows the Enniskillen Dragoons and the 5th Dragoon Guards engaging the Russian cavalry in the midst of the camp of the light cavalry brigade which is being plundered by the Russian troops during the battl... More

Camp of the 4th Dragoon Guards near Karyni - Roger Fenton's Crimean Wa...

Men and horses standing among tent encampment with building; mountains in background. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Captain Burnaby, Grenadier Guards

Captain Burnaby, full-length portrait, seated on gabion, facing slightly right, holding sword in left hand.

Nubian servants & horses - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Two men, full-length portraits, facing front, standing with horses. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs. Purchase; Franc... More

Distant view of Lord Raglan's head quarters before Sebastopol / W. Sim...

Print shows several British military camps, an ambulance, a distant view of Lord Raglan's headquarters (just left of center), and, in the foreground, a dead horse. Title from item. Plate in: The seat of war in ... More

Florence Nightingale from "A visit to the Camp before Sebastopol"

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Sir Colin Campbell - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Sir Colin Campbell, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly left, wearing uniform, standing with left arm resting on studio prop. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Eastman House ... More

The graves in the fort on Cathcart's Hill - of the officers 4th Divisi...

Print shows the cemetery on Cathcart's Hill at sunset with distant view of Sevastopolʹ.

Captain Fay on General Bosquets staff - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Pho...

Captain Fay, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding sword. Title transcribed from verso. Portion of number written in pencil on right of photo. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Rog... More

Officers of the 68th Regiment - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Group of officers of the 68th Regiment, four standing and three sitting on the ground, wearing uniforms. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton Inventory, Harry Ransom Humanities Resea... More

Captain King, horse artillery

Captain King, full-length portrait, wearing uniform, standing in front of horse with wooden hut in the background.

Colonel Reynardson (he had the command of the Grenadier Guards at the ...

Edward Birch Reynardson, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing uniform with sword. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean W... More

Zouaves from "A visit to the Camp before Sebastopol"

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Captain Webb's hut, 4th Dragoon Guards

Captain John MacDonnell Webb standing in the doorway of his hut looking at Colonel Hodge (standing in profile), Mrs. Rogers, Webb's servant with a horse, and several others; also shows three bell tents next to ... More

Lieutenant Yates, 11th Hussars - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photograph...

Lieutenant Yates, full-length portrait, posed with dog, horse and groom. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Officers of the 71st Regiment - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Officers of the 71st Highlanders with dog, posed before conical tent with military camp in background. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Eastman House Roger Fenton Series. Purchase; Fra... More

Mr. Thompson, Commissariat - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Mr. Thompson, full-length portrait, facing left, wearing uniform, seated on a horse; horse's reins are held by a servant; a conical tent in background. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton;... More

Lieutenant Grills, R.H.A. - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Lieutenant Grills, full-length portrait, wearing uniform, standing next to horse. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs. P... More

James J.M. Wardrop, Esqr. Grenadier Guards - Roger Fenton's Crimean Wa...

James J.M. Wardrop, full-length portrait, seated on gabion, facing slightly right. Title transcribed from verso. Photo marked for cropping with vertical line on the left. "231" written or printed to the left of... More

The old Genoese Castle at Balaklava, from above the castle pier

View of ships in Balaklava harbor and hill with castle or fort ruins, conical tents, buildings, and animals. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crim... More

The Monastery of St. George and Cape Fiolente, looking west / W. Simps...

Monastery of St. George on cliffs above Cape Fiolente.

Two Zouaves

Two French Army Zouaves, wearing uniforms.

Captain Croker, 17th Regiment - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Captain Croker, standing next to a horse, facing left, with servant facing him. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Balaklava from "The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol, written in th...

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Captain Brown, 4th Light Dragoons & servant, winter dress - Roger Fent...

Captain Brown, seated, and servant, full-length portrait, facing front, wearing winter uniforms, with tents in background. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger F... More

Officers of the 89th Regiment at Cathcart's Hill, in winter dress, Cap...

Captain Leslie Skynner, Lieutenant Francis Knatchbull, Captain Robert Rowland Conyers, Lieutenant John Longfield, and Captain Robert B. Hawley, full-length portrait, wearing uniforms, one standing, two leaning ... More

Field Marshall Lord Raglan - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Lord Raglan, full-length portrait, seated on chair in doorway, facing slightly right, holding hat. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contempora... More

Men of the 68th Regiment in ordinary dress

Seven men of the 68th (The Durham) Regiment of Foot, six standing and one sitting on the ground, holding rifles.

A hot day in the batteries / W. Simpson delt. ; E. Walker lith.

Print shows action in a British artillery battery, mortar fire, mortars and cannon being loaded, the removal of wounded, and in the distance, the fortifications of Sevastopolʹ. Title from item. Plate in: The se... More

Sebastopol with the Redan, Malakoff & Mamelon - Roger Fenton's Crimean...

Distant view of Sevastopolʹ and the principal Russian fortifcations. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

View of Balaklava from the top of Guard's Hill - Roger Fenton's Crimea...

View of Balaklava harbor with tent encampments in the foreground, ships in the harbor and, on a hill in the background, ruins of the old Genoese castle. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Georg... More

Officers of the 90th Regiment - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Group of men wearing officers' dress of the 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) Light Infantry, standing and sitting in front of bell tents. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, ... More

Major Woodford, Rifle Brigade - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Major Woodford with hand on hip standing next to a horse. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Captain Drysdale, 42nd Regiment

Captain John Drysdale, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding reins of horse.

Captain Holder, Fusilier Guards - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photograp...

Captain Holder, full-length portrait, standing, with gabions at feet. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Colonel Clarke, Scots' Greys, with the horse wounded at Balaklava

Colonel George Clarke, full-length portrait, wearing uniform, standing beside his horse, Sultan, facing left; horse's reins are held by a man who is possibly a servant; horse's rump is branded "2D" for 2nd Drag... More

Lieutenant Colonel Clarke Kennedy A.D.C. to H.R.H. the Duke of Cambrid...

Lieutenant Colonel Clarke Kennedy of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, wearing suit, standing behind chair. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M.... More

Viscount Kirkwall, Captain 71st Highlanders

Kirkwall seated on horse, facing left.

Major Chapman, 20th Regiment - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Major Chapman, standing next to a horse, in front of a building. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Captain Godley, 28th Regiment - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Captain Henry R.C. Godley, full-length portrait, wearing uniform, seated on a horse. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Malakoff or round tower / W. Simpson del. ; E. Walker lith.

Print shows view of the Russian battery at the Malakoff tower, the principal Russian fortification at Sevastopolʹ. Title from item. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gr... More

Brigadier General Lord George Paget C.B. - Roger Fenton's Crimean War ...

Lord George Paget, full-length portrait, facing left, wearing uniform, seated on horse; another soldier or officer standing beside the horse. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 18... More

Lieutenant General Barnard, C.B., Captain Barnard & servants

Lieutenant General Barnard, facing left, gesturing toward Captain Barnard with other staff around them in front of a wooden building.

Omar Pacha & Colonel Simmons, Queen's Commisioner at the head quarters...

Colonel Simmons standing and Omar Pacha seated on a horse in front of building with tiled roof. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Eastman House Roger Fenton series. Photo marked for cro... More

Major General Sir George Buller, K.C.B. - Roger Fenton's Crimean War P...

Sir George Buller, full-length portrait, wearing uniform, seated on horse, in left profile. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Omar Pacha, Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph - Roger Fenton's Crime...

Ömer Lûtfi Paşa, full-length portrait, seated on horseback, facing left. Title transcribed from verso. Photo marked for cropping with horizontal line across the top. "No. 214" written or printed at top left abo... More

Lieutenant General Sir John Burgoyne G.C.B., Inspector General of Fort...

Lieutenant General Sir John Burgoyne, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, hands behind him, his hat and coat by his side. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of:... More

Captain Inglis, 5th Dragoon Guards - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photog...

Captain Inglis, astride a horse, facing front. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Lieutenant General Sir John Campbell & Captain Hume, his aide-de-camp,...

Lieutenant General Sir John Campbell, full-length portrait, seated inside tent, facing left; Captain Hume, full-length portrait, standing outside tent, facing front. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate titl... More

Mr. Simpson the artist - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

William Simpson, full-length portrait, reclining on a rock, facing slightly right. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs a... More

Brigadier Garrett, Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph - Roger Fenton'...

Robert Garrett, full-length portrait, seated on horse, facing left. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

General Bosquet on Bayard - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

General Bosquet, full-length portrait, seated on horse, facing left. Title transcribed from verso. Photo marked for cropping with vertical line on left and horizontal line across bottom. Purchase; Frances M. Fe... More

Colonel Doherty, officers & men of the 13th Light Dragoons - Roger Fen...

Group of men of the 13th Light Dragoons, including Colonel Doherty, Cornet Danzil Chamberlayne, Captain Jenyns, and veterinary-surgeon Thomas Towers, one man seated on ground with dog; tents and huts in the bac... More

Captain Wilkinson, 9th Regiment

Captain Wilkinson, full-length portrait, seated on horseback, facing slightly left.

Major General Charles Ashe [sic] Windham - Roger Fenton's Crimean War ...

Charles Ash Windham, three-quarter length portrait, wearing uniform, seated, facing slightly left. Probably photographed by Sharp & Melville based on engraving and text in The Illustrated London News, October 6... More

Monastery of St. George from "The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol,...

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Captain Hughes, lately employed on special service in Circassia (he br...

Captain Hughes, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection. Roger Fenton,... More

French left attack, Kamiesch in the distance - tents of Sir John Campb...

Plains before Sevastopolʹ, with Sir John Campbell's marquis tent in the foreground. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton, photographer of the 1850s. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944... More

battlefield from "The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol, written in ...

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Sentinel of the Zouaves, before Sevastopol / W. Simpson del.

Print shows a soldier standing guard at a French battery with snow-covered cannons and Zouaves carrying bundles of wood to a camp in the background.

Cavalry camp, looking towards Kadikoi - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Pho...

View of encampment showing bell tents, huts, soldiers, and horses. Title transcribed from item. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection. Roger Fenton, ph... More

Reverend Mr. Butler & officers of the 47th Regiment - Roger Fenton's C...

Reverend Mr. Butler and four officers, full-length portrait, facing front. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Commissariat difficulties - the road from Balaklava to Sevastopol, at ...

Print shows wagons and a cannon mired in mud, broken wagons, and dead or dying horses and oxen on the roadside, at Kadikoi, on the road to Sevastopolʹ. Title from item. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : D... More

Lieutenant Colonel Seymour, Fusilier Guards - Roger Fenton's Crimean W...

Lieutenant Colonel Seymour, full-length portrait, standing, facing front. Title transcribed from verso. Photo marked for cropping with vertical lines along both sides. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms p... More

The 68th Regiment, winter dress - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photograp...

Seven men, four standing and three sitting or reclining on the ground, wearing winter uniforms and holding weapons. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russi... More

washing from "The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol, written in the ...

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Colonel Adye & Captain Whitmore - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photograp...

Colonel Adye and Captain Whitmore, one man mounted, the other standing by horse, full-length portrait, facing front. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton ... More

Captaine Thomas, Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph - Roger Fenton's ...

Captain Thomas and another officer, full-length portrait, standing, facing front. Title transcribed from verso. "C[...] Thomas" written or printed at bottom. "291" written or printed at the top. Purchase; Franc... More

Lord Raglan's Head Quarters, with Lord Raglan, Marshal Pélissier, Lord...

Allied leaders and their aides-de-camp standing on steps. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs and his letters from the C... More

A quiet night in the batteries - a sketch in the Greenhill battery (Ma...

Print shows men and cannons in a British artillery battery, at night. Title from item. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simpson. F... More

The valley of the shadow of death - caves in the Woronzoff Road behind...

Print shows bird's-eye view of the landscape along the Woronzoff Road with cannon balls lining the roadside, also shows the entrance to a valley and, in the foreground, soldiers carrying a wounded soldier on a ... More

The cemetery, Redoubt des Anglais & Inkerman in the distance - Roger F...

The cemetery on Cathcart's Hill, with Inkerman in the distance on the right. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton Inventory, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University o... More

Major Daniels & officers - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Three officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards, two standing and one sitting on ground, facing front. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograp... More

Major General Estcourt, Adj.-Gen. Major De Morel, Captain Thompson, Li...

Major General James Bucknell and staff outdoors in front of building, full-length portrait. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His phot... More

Looking towards St. George's Monastery, tents of the 4th Division in t...

Military encampment on the plateau of Sevastopolʹ. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton, photographer of the 1850s. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Cri... More

Captain Heneage, Coldstream Guards - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photog...

Captain Heneage, full-length portrait, facing foward, standing next to a horse in front of a small building. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean ... More

General Sir James Simpson, G.C.B. - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photogr...

Sir James Simpson, three-quarter length portrait, wearing hat and coat, standing, facing right with left arm resting on stone wall. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of... More

Head Quarters staff: 1) Colonel Vico; 2) Major the Honourable Leiceste...

British and French staff officers, full-length group portrait, posed sitting and standing on steps at British(?) headquarters. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war... More