Library of Congress · 1861–1865

Civil War Photographs

Glass-plate negatives and stereographs made in the field by Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and their operators.

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The Library of Congress holds the largest surviving body of American Civil War photography: wet-plate negatives carried by wagon to battlefields, camps, hospitals and railheads between 1861 and 1865. This index brings those images together with their dates, photographers and subjects. Every record links back to the Library's own catalogue, and every photograph is in the public domain.

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Records and images come from the Library of Congress. Public domain — no known restrictions. Every entry links back to the original catalogue record. See all our sources.
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