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Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / A.R. Ward [i.e., Waud], del. – Antique Photo Print

Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / A.R. Ward [i.e., Waud], del., [1865?] — historic photograph
Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / A.R. Ward [i.e., Waud], del., [1865?]. Historic photograph from the Books collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / A.R. Ward [i.e., Waud], del. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Rather than a battlefield or a portrait, this lithograph is the decorative title page for the first volume of Alexander Gardner's *Photographic Sketch Book of the War*, published in Washington in 1865 and 1866. The design was drawn by Alfred R. Waud, a well-known illustrator who recorded much of the conflict for newspapers and magazines, and it was reproduced as a lithograph. Gardner's book gathered photographs he and his assistants made at camps, battlefields and other sites, and its title page signaled the commemorative purpose of the collection just months after the war ended.

Created / published[1865?]
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreBook illustrations 1860-1870.Title pages 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870.
NotesIllus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.] : Philp & Solomons, [1865-66], v. 1, title page. Title from item.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Commemoration.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 1,139 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-223454

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