Series VI: Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War
Scope and Contents note
Series VI holds random plates from that two-volume, 100-image album of views published after the war by Philp & Solomons (Washington: 1866). The publication consisted of albumen prints taken by Alexander Gardner during the war, which were mounted within a lithographed border on sheets with letterpress captions. The plates found here came from a variety of sources, and many have been cropped to various dimensions, possibly having to do with their exhibition history. The Society does hold a complete copy of the Sketch Book, located in the library collections, but does not have a complete set of loose plates. There are duplicates of many of the plates, and many of the images appear in Series I and III.
Images are filed by plate number taken from the published volumes. This plate set is not complete.
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War: Plates 3-6
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Plate 3 - Fairfax Court-House
Plate 4 - Stone Church, Centreville
Plate 5 - Fortifications on Heights of Centreville
Plate 6 - Quaker Guns, Centreville
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War: Plates 8-9
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Plate 8 - Mathews House, Battle-field of Bull Run
Plate 9 - Ruins at Manassas
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War: Plates 22-25
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Plate 22 - Signal Tower, Elk Mountain, overlooking Battle-field of Antietam
Plate 24 - Scene in Pleasant Valley, foot of South Mountain, Maryland
Plate 25 - Pontoon Bridge, across the Potomac at Berlin
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War: Plates 33, 40
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Plate 33 - Evacuation of Aquia Creek
Plate 40 - A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, on Battle-field of Gettysburg, July, 1863
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War: Plates 41, 44, 46
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Plate 41 - Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Battle-field of Gettysburg, July, 1863
Plate 44 - Slaughter Pen, foot of Round Top, Battle-field of Gettysburg
Plate 46 - Provost Marshal's Office, Aquia Creek
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War: Plates 51-54, 56-58
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Plate 51 - The "Shebang," or Quarters Sanitary Commission, Brandy Station
Plate 52 - Residence of Quartermaster Third Army Corps
Plate 53 - Headquarters Christian Commission, in the Field
Plate 54 - Field Hospital, Second Army Corps Brandy Station
Plate 56 - Headquarters New York Herald, in the Field
Plate 57 - Camp Architecture
Plate 58 - Pontoon Boat
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War: Plates 61-62, 67-68
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Plate 61 - Commissary Department, Headquarters Army of the Potomac
Plate 62 - U.S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps.
Plate 67 - Quarles' Mills, on the North Anna
Plate 68 - Charles City Court-House
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War: Plates 73-74, 77, 80
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Plate 73 - U.S. Military Telegraph Battery Wagon
Plate 74 - Poplar Grove Church, built by the 50th N.Y.V. Engineers
Plate 77 - Army Forge Scene
Plate 80 - Johnson's Mill, near Petersburg
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War: Plates 81-89
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Plate 81 - View of Gas Works, Petersburg, showing effects of bombardment
Plate 82 - View on the Appomattox, near Campbell's Bridge
Plate 83 - Quarters of Men in Fort Sedgwick, generally known as Fort Hell
Plate 84 - View of the Interior of Fort Stedman
Plate 85 - Blandford Church, Petersburg
Plate 86 - Interior view of Confederate Works at Gracie's Salient
Plate 87 - Dutch Gap Canal, James River
Plate 88 - Ruins of Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, across the James
Plate 89 - Libby Prison, Richmond
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War: Plates 91-92, 99-100
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Plate 91 - Ruins of Arsenal, Richmond
Plate 92 - View on Canal, near Haxall & Crenshaw's Mill, Richmond
Plate 99 - McLean's House, where Grant & Lee signed the Capitulation
Plate 100 - Dedication of Monument, on Bull Run Battle-field