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George A. Custer and General Alfred Pleasanton on horseback

George A. Custer and General Alfred Pleasanton on horseback

LIBI_00019_00529, Photographed by Alexander Gardner, "General George A. Custer (left) and General Alfred Pleasanton (right) on Horseback in Front of Tents During the Civil War," circa 1863. Alexander Gardner (... More

[Black Soldier in Camp] - Early photography, Public domain image

[Black Soldier in Camp] - Early photography, Public domain image

Possibly by Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs... More

Headquarters of the Sanitary Commission, Gettysburg, PA.

Headquarters of the Sanitary Commission, Gettysburg, PA.

Photograph shows officers of the Sanitary Commission in front of the headquarter in Gettysburg. No. 238. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the ga... More

[Four Officers], 19th century - Public domain portrait print

[Four Officers], 19th century - Public domain portrait print

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882... More

Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding his spectacles and a pencil

Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding his...

Meserve #97. Ostendorf #116. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Reference prints are in the PRES FILE: Lincoln, Meserve no. 97. Acquisition sou... More

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Confederate dead gathered for burial at the edge of the Rose woods, July 5, 1863

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Confederate dead gathered for burial at the e...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress... More

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1

Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who... More

[Sheridan and his generals]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

[Sheridan and his generals]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph showing Generals Wesley Merritt, Philip Sheridan, George Crook, James William Forsyth, and George Armstrong Custer around a table examining a document. Date from: Custer in Photographs by D. Mark Ka... More

Fairfax court-house / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan ; positive by A Gardner.

Fairfax court-house / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan ; positive by A Gard...

Photograph showing a group of soldiers and their horses in front of the Fairfax courthouse. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c... More

Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia. Lewis Payne, standing in overcoat and without hat. Federal guard standing on left

Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia. Lewis Payne, standing in o...

Photographer name from Swanson, J. Lincoln's assassins, 2001. Title from Civil War caption books. Corresponding print is in LOT 4195. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints a... More

Richmond, Virginia. Tredegar Iron Works - 19th century Virginia.

Richmond, Virginia. Tredegar Iron Works - 19th century Virginia.

Photographer: Alex. Gardner. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, VA, Tredegar Iron Works. File print in LOT 4162-F. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library... More

Execution of the four persons condemned as conspirators, Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt., - NARA - 530503

Execution of the four persons condemned as conspirators, Mary Surratt,...

General notes: Use War and Conflict Number 264 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who... More

Sitting Crow-Kah-Re-Eo-Tah-Ke. Blackfeet Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519005

Sitting Crow-Kah-Re-Eo-Tah-Ke. Blackfeet Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519005

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a ... More

Ruins of Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond

Ruins of Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of American Civil War, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photograph... More

Penitentiary, Richmond, 19th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Penitentiary, Richmond, 19th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

The "Sunken Road" at Antietam, Confederate States of America.

The "Sunken Road" at Antietam, Confederate States of America.

Stereograph showing dead Confederate soldiers in ditch on the battlefield at Antietam, Md. No. 553. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Attributed to Alexander Gardner, ... More

Office of Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., St. Louis, Mo.

Office of Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., St. Louis, Mo.

No. 2. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photo... More

[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding his spectacles and a pencil]

[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding hi...

The Library has prints of two versions of Lincoln holding his spectacles: an 8x10 inch print from "Emily Tinker positive" and a carte-de-visite-size print. Both are copies of a photo taken by Alexander Gardner ... More

President Lincoln on Battle-Field of Antietam

President Lincoln on Battle-Field of Antietam

Picryl description: Public domain image of war, military conflict, infantry, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish p... More

Brigadier General Gustavus A. DeRussy and Staff on Steps of Arlington House, Arlington, Virginia

Brigadier General Gustavus A. DeRussy and Staff on Steps of Arlington ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882... More

Aiken house on Weldon Railroad, Virginia / negative by J. Reekie, positive by A. Gardner.

Aiken house on Weldon Railroad, Virginia / negative by J. Reekie, posi...

Photograph showing a farm house near Petersburg. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 2, no. 71. Copyright by A. Gardne... More

The inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, 1865

The inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, 1865

1897 63145 U.S. Copyright Office "Photograph by an unknown cameraman, probably Gardner, taken at the east front of the Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1865. Discovered by Lloyd Ostendorf in the fil... More

[President Abraham Lincoln posed with Union officers and soldiers during his visit to Antietam, Maryland, October 3, 1862]

[President Abraham Lincoln posed with Union officers and soldiers duri...

Photograph shows, left to right, Buck Juit, a soldier; Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln's bodyguard (seated); Ozias M. Hatch; Marcy; Reeves; General McClernand; President Abraham Lincoln; General Fitz-John Porter; Gene... More

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, traditionally called "last photograph of Lincoln from life"]

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, traditionally called "l...

Copy of photo by Alexander Gardner taken at Gardner's Gallery in Washington, DC, on Sunday, February 5, 1865. This last photo in Lincoln's last photo session from life was long thought to have been made on Apri... More

Black Eye-Ish-Tah-Sa-Pah. Sans Arc Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519019

Black Eye-Ish-Tah-Sa-Pah. Sans Arc Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519019

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a ... More

Iron Shell-Ma-Zah-Pon-Kes-Kah. Brule Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 518981

Iron Shell-Ma-Zah-Pon-Kes-Kah. Brule Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 518981

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a ... More

[President Abraham Lincoln seated with his secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay]

[President Abraham Lincoln seated with his secretaries John Hay and Jo...

Photo shows President Abraham Lincoln seated between his private secretaries John G. Nicolay and John Hay at a photo session in Alexander Gardner's studio in Washington, D.C., on November 8, 1863. "On this day ... More

[The Wilderness Battlefield, near Spotsylvania, Virginia]

[The Wilderness Battlefield, near Spotsylvania, Virginia]

Unknown (American) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He emigrated to the United States in 185... More

[Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, standing]

[Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, standing]

"He towers above the head clamp. Photograph by Alexander Gardner, Washington, D.C., Sunday, August 9, 1863. Visible behind Lincoln's legs are the tips of the iron stander which supports the rod holding the head... More

[President Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, seated in a "Brady" chair, November 8, 1863]

[President Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, seated in a "Brady" ...

Photograph shows President Lincoln seated in a photographer's studio. "The elegant studio chair, called a "Brady chair," was discarded from the House of Representatives when it proved too narrow for the rotund ... More

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 2

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 2

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best kno... More

Sitting Crow-Kah-Re-Eo-Tah-Ke. Blackfeet Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519006

Sitting Crow-Kah-Re-Eo-Tah-Ke. Blackfeet Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519006

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a ... More

Lincoln funeral, American Civil War Glass Negative.

Lincoln funeral, American Civil War Glass Negative.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 1985. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. ... More

President Abraham Lincoln seated next to small table From photographic negative, from Brady's National Portrait Gallery

President Abraham Lincoln seated next to small table From photographic...

Label for McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia on verso. Ostendorf, no. 52 C Meserve, no. 69 Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: The Horse Soldier, Gettysburg, Pennsylvani... More

Gap In The Salt. Comanches - NARA - 519082

Gap In The Salt. Comanches - NARA - 519082

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best know... More

Lacy's house, Falmouth, Virginia, headquarters of General Burnside

Lacy's house, Falmouth, Virginia, headquarters of General Burnside

No. 4220. Photograph previously attributed to Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, pl. 29. G... More

Mushroom rock on Alum Creek, Kansas, 7 miles east of Fort Harker & 496 miles west of St. Louis, Mo.

Mushroom rock on Alum Creek, Kansas, 7 miles east of Fort Harker & 496...

No. 130. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his pho... More

The Abraham Lincoln portfolio of photogravures from the famous McClure collection.

The Abraham Lincoln portfolio of photogravures from the famous McClure...

Includes: Lincoln the President; The famous Cooper Union portrait; Lincoln on the line of battle; The Lincoln family; Abraham Lincoln; The first portrait ever made of Lincoln. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 18... More

[Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, seated]

[Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, seated]

Photo shows Abraham Lincoln with a badly swollen hand after shaking hands with thousands of people during his journey to Washington, DC. During most of the sitting he kept his right hand closed or out of view. ... More

[Panorama of Camp Winfield Scott, Yorktown, Virginia]

[Panorama of Camp Winfield Scott, Yorktown, Virginia]

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

[President Abraham Lincoln, seated, with his left hand on his face]

[President Abraham Lincoln, seated, with his left hand on his face]

This is a cropped print. The full-length portrait is filed in LOT 13322, no. 65. Ostendorf, no. 74 Meserve, no. 55 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockyw... More

Antietam, Maryland. Seated: R. William Moore and Allan Pinkerton. Standing: George H. Bangs, John C. Babcock, and Augustus K. Littlefield

Antietam, Maryland. Seated: R. William Moore and Allan Pinkerton. Stan...

Photographer name from negative sleeve: Alex. Gardner. Caption from negative sleeve: Messrs. E. J. Allen, Babcock, Moore, Bangs, and Littlefield. Oct. 1862. Two plates form left (LC-B811-631B) and right (LC-B81... More

Afraid Of The Bear-Ma-To-Ko-Kepa. Cut Head, Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519024

Afraid Of The Bear-Ma-To-Ko-Kepa. Cut Head, Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 51902...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a ... More

Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland - (The Japanese Ambassadors, First Japanese Mission to the United States) - Google Art Project

Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland - (The Japanese Ambassadors...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best ... More

Fifth Street, Leavenworth, Kansas, 809 [309] miles west of St. Louis, Mo.

Fifth Street, Leavenworth, Kansas, 809 [309] miles west of St. Louis, ...

No. 52. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his phot... More

[Dead Civil War soldiers in the battlefield]

[Dead Civil War soldiers in the battlefield]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882... More

[Presidenet Abraham Lincoln, seated next to a table]

[Presidenet Abraham Lincoln, seated next to a table]

Photo shows President Abraham Lincoln in one of a series of six pictures taken on the day before the official opening of Alexander Gardner's new gallery. Reproduced from a sepia enlargement. (Source: Ostendorf,... More

[Gardner portrait of Lincoln.]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

[Gardner portrait of Lincoln.]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Meserve no. 59. A photograph made by Alexander Gardner in Washington November 15, 1863. (From the Photographic Portraits of Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln Memorial University; The Meserve Collection, 1941.) Alexande... More

[Abraham Lincoln, seated and holding a book, with his son Tad (Thomas) leaning on a table]

[Abraham Lincoln, seated and holding a book, with his son Tad (Thomas)...

Photo by Alexander Gardner taken at Gardner's Gallery in Washington, DC, on Sunday, February 5, 1865. This last photo session from life was long thought to have happened on April 10, 1865, but more recent resea... More

Ruins of Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge, Richmond, Virginia, April, 1865

Ruins of Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge, Richmond, Virginia, ...

Photograph shows ruins of the railroad bridge across the James River. Plate no. 88. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], ... More

Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print

Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Carte d' visite: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Carte d' visite: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Reproduction number: LC-MSS-44297-33-135 (b&w negative) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He ... More

Chewing Elk. Comanches - NARA - 519080

Chewing Elk. Comanches - NARA - 519080

Public domain photograph of Native American, American Indian tribe, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Sc... More

Dave. Towoccaroes - NARA - 519125

Dave. Towoccaroes - NARA - 519125

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a ... More

Grass-Pah-Zhe. Blackfeet Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519003

Grass-Pah-Zhe. Blackfeet Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519003

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a ... More

Abraham Lincoln on 9 April 1865 (cropped)

Abraham Lincoln on 9 April 1865 (cropped)

Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He emigrated to the United States in 1856 and worked as a ph... More

Icon Alexander Gardner 1863, public domain photograph

Icon Alexander Gardner 1863, public domain photograph

Alexander Gardner, CDV self portrait, National Portrait Gallery, gift of Larry J. West Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photograp... More

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

"Copyright 1900 by M.P. Rice, Washn., D.C." bottom right. Original photograph by Alexander Gardner. Ostendorf, no. 77 (variant) Meserve, no. 59 Similar to portrait published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complet... More

[Gardner photograph of Lincoln' head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front.]

[Gardner photograph of Lincoln' head-and-shoulders portrait, facing fr...

Meserve Collection 59. This portrait has been widely published, first by Philp & Solomon of Washington soon after it was made. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photograph... More

[Abraham Lincoln, half-length, seated, facing front, with hand on arm of chair]

[Abraham Lincoln, half-length, seated, facing front, with hand on arm ...

Copy or later print of carte de visite-size photo by Alexander Gardner taken at Gardner's Gallery in Washington, DC, on Sunday, February 5, 1865. This last photo session from life was long thought to have happe... More

Gap In The Salt. Comanches - NARA - 519083

Gap In The Salt. Comanches - NARA - 519083

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best know... More

Skin Of The Heart-Shanta-Ya. Cut Head, Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519033

Skin Of The Heart-Shanta-Ya. Cut Head, Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519033

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a ... More

Alexander Gardner - Abraham Lincoln - Google Art Project

Alexander Gardner - Abraham Lincoln - Google Art Project

Picryl description: Public domain photo of portrait art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best ... More

[President Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[President Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Copy negative was made from a photograph in a private collection. Ostendorf, no. 77 Meserve, 59 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p.... More

[President Abraham Lincoln seated with his secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay]

[President Abraham Lincoln seated with his secretaries John Hay and Jo...

Photo shows President Abraham Lincoln seated between his private secretaries John G. Nicolay and John Hay at a photo session in Alexander Gardner's studio in Washington, D.C., on November 8, 1863. "On this day ... More

[President Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, seated and facing front]

[President Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, seated and facing fr...

Ostendorf, no. 78 Meserve, 57 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 146. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) wa... More

Carte d' visite: Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888

Carte d' visite: Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888

Reproduction number: LC-MSS-44297-33-144 (b&w negative) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He ... More

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Dead Confederate sharpshooter at the foot of Round Top

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Dead Confederate sharpshooter at the foot of...

Photographer name from negative sleeve: Alex. Gardner. Caption from negative sleeve: All over now. Confederate sharp-shooter at foot of Round Top, Gettysburg. Two plates form left (LC-B811-229B) and right (LC-B... More

The One Who Run The Tiger-He-Gmah-Vua-Kovah. Brule Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 518994

The One Who Run The Tiger-He-Gmah-Vua-Kovah. Brule Sioux, 1872 - NARA ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a ... More

Medicine Bear-Ma-To- Ican. Cut Head, Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519022

Medicine Bear-Ma-To- Ican. Cut Head, Sioux, 1872 - NARA - 519022

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a ... More

Office Union Pacific Railway Co., St. Louis, Mo.

Office Union Pacific Railway Co., St. Louis, Mo.

No. 1. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. Forms part of Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, ... More

[Luig Moraque, a Pima man, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right, wearing a turban] / photo by Alexander Gardner.

[Luig Moraque, a Pima man, half-length portrait, seated, facing slight...

Blind stamp: Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology. Reproduction of photograph taken before 1882. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Alexander Gardner (Octob... More

Carte d' visite: Hooper, Samuel, 1808-1875

Carte d' visite: Hooper, Samuel, 1808-1875

Reproduction number: LC-MSS-44297-33-087 (b&w negative) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He ... More

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Confederate dead at the edge of the Rose woods, July 5, 1863

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Confederate dead at the edge of the Rose wood...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress... More

Chewing Elk. Comanches - NARA - 519081

Chewing Elk. Comanches - NARA - 519081

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best know... More

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Ostendorf, no. 77 (variant) Meserve, no. 59 Copyright deposit; 1891. Similar to portrait published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 145. ... More

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

"Copyright 1900 by M.P. Rice, Washn., D.C." bottom right. Original photograph by Alexander Gardner. Ostendorf, no. 77 (variant) Meserve, no. 59 Similar to portrait published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complet... More

Queen Emma of Hawaii and Her Entourage

Queen Emma of Hawaii and Her Entourage

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for h... More

Indian delegations at Washington--presentation to the president / From a photograph by A. Gardner, Washington, D.C.

Indian delegations at Washington--presentation to the president / From...

Print shows members of the Yankton, Santee Sioux (Dakota), and Upper Missouri Sioux tribes with President Andrew Johnson and others at a reception in the East Room of the White House on February 23, 1867. (Sour... More

[President Abraham Lincoln, portrait, seated and facing front]

[President Abraham Lincoln, portrait, seated and facing front]

Copyright by Leet Brothers, 1903. Ostendorf, no. 71 Meserve, 52 and 114 Reference print in: PRES FILE Lincoln, Abraham Portraits Meserve, no. 55. Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloy... More

Antietam, Md. Confederate dead by a fence on the Hagerstown road

Antietam, Md. Confederate dead by a fence on the Hagerstown road

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libr... More

Carte d' visite: Washburne, E. B. (Elihu Benjamin), 1816-1887

Carte d' visite: Washburne, E. B. (Elihu Benjamin), 1816-1887

Reproduction number: LC-MSS-44297-33-070 (b&w negative) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He ... More

Rays of sunlight from South America

Rays of sunlight from South America

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Photographs of Lima, Peru and of the guano industry on the Chincha Islands. With captions. "Negative by H. Moulton. Entered, according to Act ... More

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best kno... More

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg. A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep - NARA - 533314

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg. A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep - NARA - 533314

General notes: Use War and Conflict Number 255 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who... More

Abraham Lincoln O-71 by Gardner, 1863

Abraham Lincoln O-71 by Gardner, 1863

Autographed carte de visite portrait photograph of Abraham Lincoln Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civ... More

Tad Lincoln on 9 April 1865 (cropped)

Tad Lincoln on 9 April 1865 (cropped)

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best kno... More

Loading cattle at MacCoy's stock yard, Abilene, Kansas, 447 miles west of St. Louis, Mo.

Loading cattle at MacCoy's stock yard, Abilene, Kansas, 447 miles west...

No. 115. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his pho... More

Member of the First Japanese Diplomatic Mission to the United States

Member of the First Japanese Diplomatic Mission to the United States

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best ... More

[Member of the First Japanese Diplomatic Mission to the United States]

[Member of the First Japanese Diplomatic Mission to the United States]

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best ... More

[The First Japanese Diplomatic Mission to the United States]

[The First Japanese Diplomatic Mission to the United States]

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best ... More

Bodies of Confederate artillerymen near Dunker church

Bodies of Confederate artillerymen near Dunker church

No. 552. Alternate title and photographer from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. M... More

Antietam, Maryland. Battlefield near Sherrick's house where the 79th N.Y. Vols. fought after they crossed the creek. Group of dead Confederates

Antietam, Maryland. Battlefield near Sherrick's house where the 79th N...

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: View on Battlefied of Antietem near Sherrick's house, where the 79th New York Volunteers Fought, After they crossed the creek. Group of dead Con... More

Antietam, Maryland. Burnside bridge. Southeastern view

Antietam, Maryland. Burnside bridge. Southeastern view

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Burnside Bridge South Eastern view, Sept. 1862. Corresponding print is in LOT 4167-C. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of ... More

Antietam, Maryland. Picnic party at Antietam bridge

Antietam, Maryland. Picnic party at Antietam bridge

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Picnic Party at Antietam. Corresponding print is in LOT 4172. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Pho... More

Antietam, Maryland. General Joe Hooker's headquarters

Antietam, Maryland. General Joe Hooker's headquarters

Caption from negative sleeve: Gen. Hooker's Headquarters, Battle of Antietam. Corresponding print is in LOT 4167-C. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Lutheran Church, Sharpsburgh, Maryland, September 1862

Lutheran Church, Sharpsburgh, Maryland, September 1862

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Mrs. Greenhow and Daughter, Imprisoned in the Old Capitol, Washington

Mrs. Greenhow and Daughter, Imprisoned in the Old Capitol, Washington

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best kno... More

Scene in Pleasant Valley, Maryland

Scene in Pleasant Valley, Maryland

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known fo... More

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia, J. Paul Getty Museum

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia, J. Paul Getty Museum

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer ... More

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