Download or read book Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields during the Civil War of the United States Illustrations written by Francis Trevelyan Miller and published by Hartford, Connecticut. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is undoubtedly the most valuable collection of historic photographs in America. It is believed to be the first time that the camera was used so extensively and practically on the battle-field. It is the first known collection of its size on the Western Continent and it is the only witness of the scenes enacted during the greatest crisis in the annals of the American nation. As a contribution to history it occupies a position that the higher art of painting, or scholarly research and literal description, can never usurp. It records a tragedy that neither the imagination of the painter nor the skill of the historian can so dramatically relate. The existence of this collection is unknown by the public at large. Even while this book has been in preparation eminent photographers have pronounced it impossible, declaring that photography was not sufficiently advanced at that period to prove of such practical use in War. Distinguished veterans of the Civil War have informed me that they knew positively that there were no cameras in the wake of the army. This incredulity of men in a position to know the truth enhances the value of the collection inasmuch that its genuineness is officially proven by the testimony of those who saw the pictures taken, by the personal statement of the man who took them, and by the Government Records. For forty-two years the original negatives have been in storage, secreted from public view, except as an occasional proof is drawn for some special use. How these negatives came to be taken under most hazardous conditions in the storm and stress of a War that threatened to change the entire history of the world is itself an interesting historical incident. Moreover, it is one of the tragedies of genius. While the clouds were gathering, which finally broke into the Civil War in the United States, there died in London one named Scott-Archer, a man who had found one of the great factors in civilization, but died poor and before his time because he had overstrained his powers in the cause of science. It was necessary to raise a subscription for his widow, and the government settled upon the children a pension of fifty pounds per annum on the ground that their father was "the discoverer of a scientific process of great value to the nation, from which the inventor had reaped little or no benefit." This was in 1857, and four years later, when the American Republic became rent by a conflict of brother against brother, Mathew B. Brady of Washington and New York, asked the permission of the Government and the protection of the Secret Service to demonstrate the practicability of Scott-Archer's discovery in the severest test that the invention had ever been given. Brady was an artist by temperament and gained his technical knowledge of portraiture in the rendezvous of Paris. He had been interested in the discoveries of Niepce and Daguerre and Fox-Talbot along the crude lines of photography but with the introduction of the collodion process of Scott-Archer he accepted the science as a profession and, during twenty-five years of labor as a pioneer photographer, took the likenesses of the political celebrities of the epoch and of eminent men and women throughout the country. Brady's request was granted and he invested heavily in cameras which were made specially for the hard usage of warfare. These cameras were cumbersome and were operated by what is known as the old wet-plate process, requiring a dark room which was carried with them onto the battle-fields. The experimental operations under Brady proved so successful that they attracted the immediate attention of President Lincoln, General Grant and Allan Pinkerton, known as Major Allen and chief of the Secret Service. Equipments were hurried to all divisions of the great army and some of them found their way into the Confederate ranks. To be continue in this ebook...
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955 written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States written by Edward Bailey Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductions of selected photographs from collection of Edward Bailey Eaton.
Download or read book Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States written by Mathew B. Brady and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare reproductions from photographs selected from seven thousand original negatives taken under most hazardous conditions in the midst of one of the most terrific conflicts of men that the world has ever known, and in the earliest days of photography - These negatives have been in storage vaults for more than forty years and are now the private collection of Edward Bailey Eaton. Valued at $150,000. First presentation from this historic collection made officially and exclusively by the owner.
Download or read book Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States Classic Reprint written by Mathew B. Brady and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States The existence of this collection is unknown by the public at large. Even while this book has been in pre paration eminent photographers have pronounced it im possible, declaring that photography was not sufficiently advanced at that period to prove of such practical use in War. Distinguished veterans of the Civil War have informed me that they knew positively that there were no cameras in the wake of the army. This incredulity of men in a position to know the truth enhances the value of the collection inasmuch that its genuineness is officially proven by the testimony of those who saw the pictures taken, by the personal statement of the man who took them, and by the Government Records. For forty-two years the original negatives have been in storage, secreted from public view, except as an occasional proof is drawn for some special use. How these negatives came to be taken under most hazardous conditions in the storm and stress of a War that threatened to change the entire history of the world is itself an interesting historical ia eident. Moreover, it is one of the tragedies of genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Prices of Clothing written by John M. Curran and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States written by Brady Mathew B and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book In the Wake of Battle written by George Sullivan and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathew Brady and his famous photographers, including Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, and James Gibson, created an indelible record of bravery, suffering and sacrifice during the American Civil War. With more than 400 photographs, ranging from seminal Civil War images to never-before published pictures, In the Wake of Battle: The Civil War Images of Mathew Brady is one of the most comprehensive collections of Civil War photography ever published. Arranged by battle site and event, each of which is introduced by a brief explanatory essay, the volume offers carefully researched archival information about the images and their photographers. In addition, lists of Library of Congress and National Archives order numbers make this volume a most valuable and unique resource.
Download or read book Civil War Photographs 1861 1865 written by Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Maryland Historical Magazine written by William Hand Browne and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the proceedings of the Society.
Download or read book Gardner s Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War written by Alexander Gardner and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 1959-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second only to Mathew Brady as the foremost early American photographer was Alexander Gardner, the one-time manager of Brady's Washington salon and Brady's chief photographer in the field during the early days of the Civil War. Indeed, Gardner — who later photographed the War independently — often managed the famous horse-drawn photographic laboratory and took many of the pictures that used to be attributed to Brady. He accompanied the Union troops on their marches, their camps and bivouacs, their battles, and on their many hasty retreats and routs during the early days of the War. In 1866 Alexander Gardner published a very ambitious two-volume work which contained prints of some 100 photographs which he had taken in the field. A list of them reads like a roster of great events and great men: Antietam Bridge under Travel, President Lincoln (and McClellan) at Antietam, Pinkerton and His Agents in the Field, Ruins of Richmond, Libby Prison, McLean's House Where Lee's Surrender Was Signed, Meade's Headquarters at Gettysburg, Battery D, Second U.S. Artillery in Action at Fredericksburg, the Slaughter Pen at Gettysburg, and many others. This publication is now amoung the rarest American books, and is here for the first time republished inexpensively. Gardner's photographs are among the greatest war pictures ever taken and are also among the most prized records of American history. Gardner was quite conscious of recording history, and spared himself no pains or risk to achieve the finest results. His work indicates a technical mastery that now seems incredible when one bears in mind the vicissitudes of collodion applications in the field, wet plates, long exposures, long drying times, imperfect chemicals — plus enemy bullets around the photographer's ears. It has been said of these photographs: photography today . . . is far easier, but it is no better.
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Download or read book Brady s Civil War written by Webb Garrison and published by Salamander Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Mathew Brady a successful portrait photographer, turned his attention to the scenes of war that surrounded him. This volume contains more than 300 photographs taken by Brady, including images of military leaders, battle and the home front.
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Download or read book Civil War Witness Mathew Brady s Photos Reveal the Horrors of War written by Don Nardo and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sinners Saints written by Gladys B. Beery and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roistering, Rowdy Laramie City, Wyoming, sprang up in 1868 in advance of the first Union Pacific train. Track-layers, tie hacks, soldiers, cowboys and those who could tolerate them comprised the citizenry. It was a rough-and-tumble town that roared loud and burned bright.Author Gladys Beery has sifted some of the most interesting and unique characters from this mix for Sinners & Saints. She presents 33 biographical tales which combine to present a picture of the West as it really was.
