[ Photographs ] (Civil War) Brady; Gardner; Russell; et alia Group of 162 hand-colored lantern slides of Civil War scenes in Gettysburg, Virginia, South Carolina, Washington, D. C., Georgia, and Tennessee, including portraits of generals, rare

[ Photographs ] (Civil War) Brady; Gardner; Russell; et alia Group of 162 hand-colored lantern slides of Civil War scenes in Gettysburg, Virginia, South Carolina, Washington, D. C., Georgia, and Tennessee, including portraits of generals, rare battlefield views with Confederate and Union dead, naval views, including ships, paddle-wheelers, The U. S. S. Monitor, hospital scenes, artillery, and more, the originals by Brady, Gardner, O'Sullivan, Russell, and others; plus 2 hand-tinted circular lantern slides of steel engravings, wood mounted. Lantern slides, 3.25 x 4inches or the reverse; nearly an are unsealed, but many with the original cover glass are housed in 2 period wooden boxes; 2 are broken; a few are duplicates. 1861-65; 1880s (?) E7000-10000 A Rich Pictorial Archive Of Civil War Views, With Several Unpublished Views, Each Tinted To Bring The War Vividly To Life: Military uniforms are artfully rendered in authentic blues or grays flags in brilliant red, white and blues, and topographical views depicting the aftermath of battle are made all the more dramatic with the use of muted tones. Highlights include: Brady's equipment wagon, with a black attendant and two men in the foreground, one of whom looks like Timothy O'Sullivan * Col. Mike Corcoran and Father Mooney perform service for the famous 69 N Y Infantry * Lincoln and McClellan at Antietam * Field headquarters of U S. Grant, Cold Harbor * Penna. 75th Zouaves * Rear Admiral John Dahlgren aboard U S. S. Pawnee * Company 'A' 9th Indiana blackhats * General Robert E. Lee on rear porch in Richmond after Appommatox * General U. S. Grant and staff reviewing parade on Pennsylvania Ave. with Pres. Johnson after death of Lincoln Union troops in trenches outside Fredericksburg * Belle Plain prison camp. Accompanying the group is a contemporary typewritten inventory identifying each of the slides,. a card file with approximately seventy 2.5 x 3inch thumbnails (in color), each of which is identified on recto; and thirty 4 x 5inch chromes, all of which are captioned.