gelatin silver prints

[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding hi...

[Wu-Ting-Fang, Chinese minister, in Washington, D.C.]

Photo shows Wu Tingfang, Chinese diplomat, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, holding a fan in right hand, and with left hand resting on the arm of a chair; table with vase and flowers on the... More

Elizabeth Kortright Monroe

Photograph showing Mrs. James Monroe, bust portrait, facing right. Title from item. Photo of oil portrait by John Vanderlyn.

A few small temples still retain their lines of classic beauty. With t...

Photographs show ruins of the Acropolis and Frank Carpenter with the Prime Minister of Greece, Colonel Stylianos Gonatas, Athens, Greece. Title from item. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. Written ... More

Lee Moorhouse - Lucy Coyote

Photograph shows Lucy Coyote, an American Indian woman, half-length portrait, facing right. 1810 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. On back: "Photo by Lee Moorhouse." Copyrighted Jan. 19, 1900 by Lee Moorh... More

Thomas Sully - Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson

Photograph showing Martha Randolph, head and shoulder portrait, facing left. Title from item. Portrait by Thomas Sully.

Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife of President John Q. Adams

Photograph showing Mrs. John Quincy Adams, head-and-shoulder portrait, facing right. Title from item. Photo of portrait painted by Charles Bird King.

Mary Abigail Fillmore, hostess for President Fillmore at White House

Photograph showing Mary Fillmore, head-and-shoulder portrait, facing front. Title from item. Photo of portrait.

[Mrs. John Tyler, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Title devised by Library staff. Photo of portrait.

Emily Tenessee Donalson, niece of President Jackson and White House ho...

Photograph showing Emily Donelson, head-and-shoulder portrait, facing right. Title from item. Photo of portrait.

Sarah York Jackson, daughter-in-law and White House hostess for Presid...

Photograph showing Sarah Jackson, head-and-shoulder portrait, facing left. Title from item. Photo of portrait.

[Andrew Jackson, half length portrait, seated, facing left]

Title devised by Library staff.

[George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Title devised by Library staff.

Letitia Tyler Semple, daughter of President John Tyler

Photograph showing Letitia Semple, three-quarter-length portrait, standing, leaning on rail. Title from item. Photo of portrait.

[James Buchanan, bust portrait, facing right]

Title devised by Library staff.

Harriet Lane Johnston, White House hostess for President Buchanan

Photograph showing Harriet Johnston, head and shoulders portrait, left profile. Title from item. Photo of engraving by J.C. Buttre. From Laura C. Holloway, The Ladies of the White House, 1881, opp. p. 442.

[San Francisco, 1851, from Rincon Hill]

J141156 U.S. Copyright Office Reproduction of daguerreotypes likely taken prior to April 22, 1851. Date based on the presence of the steamer "C.M. Weber," which was in San Francisco for repairs. Sections missin... More

[Abraham Lincoln while campaigning for the U.S. Senate, taken in Chica...

Title devised by Library staff. Original photograph: The original daguerreotype is at the Chicago Historical Society. Ostendorf, no. 6 Meserve, no. 3 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by L... More

Charlotte Cushman as Meg Merrilies in "Guy Mannering"

Photograph by Mathew Brady Studio. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New ... More

[Abraham Lincoln: Immediately prior to Senate nomination, Chicago, Ill...

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Ostendorf, no. 2 Meserve, no. 6 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 6-7.

[Abraham Lincoln, immediately prior to Senate nomination, Chicago, Ill...

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. According to Ostendorf, this portrait by Hessler was copied during Lincoln's campaign and further distributed. Ostendorf, no. 2 (variation) Meserve, n... More

[Abraham Lincoln while a traveling lawyer, taken in Danville, Illinois

Illus. in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve. New York, Privately printed, 1911, p. 43. Original photograph: The original ambrotype is at the Illinois State Historical Library. Ostendo... More

[Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, facing right]

Photo shows Abraham Lincoln in an image that was widely reproduced on presidential campaign ribbins in 1860. Lincoln reportedly liked the photograph and often signed prints for admirers. (Source: Ostendorf, p. ... More

[Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, facing right]

Photo shows Abraham Lincoln in an image that was widely reproduced on presidential campaign ribbons in 1860. Lincoln reportedly liked the photograph and often signed prints for admirers. (Source: Ostendorf, p. ... More

[Abraham Lincoln, bust-length portrait, facing right]

Ostendorf, no. 12 Meserve, no. 4 Original photograph: The original tintype is at the National Lincoln Museum (Old Ford's Theatre), according to Ostendorf. Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album /... More

[Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president, half-length portrait, ...

Photo shows presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, two days after he won his party's nomination. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 42-3.) Title devised by Library staff Previously attributed to W... More

[Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president, three-quarter length p...

Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly right. Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve. New York, Privately print... More

[Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president, before delivering his ...

Title devised by Library staff. Ostendorf, no. 17 (variant) Meserve, no. 19 or no. 20 (detail) Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 385.

Abigail Smith Adams wife of John Adams / photo of portrait by Gilbert ...

Photograph showing Mrs. John Adams, head and shoulder portrait, facing right. Title from item. Photo of portrait by Gilbert Stuart; portrait at National Gallery. Photo by Chester A. Lawrence, Dorchester, Mass.,... More

[Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president, half-length portrait, ...

Photo shows presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, two days after he won his party's nomination. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 42.) The Library's print is a copy of an ambrotype. As a result,... More

[Abraham Lincoln: President-elect]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Ostendorf, no. 40 Meserve, no. 33 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 67.

Ruins of stone bridge, Bull Run, Va.

Tennessee, Duck River bridge

[Portrait of Union officer holding a sword in his arm]

Title devised by library staff.

[Boats docked at the shore of a river in a wooded area]

Title devised by library staff. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

Sumter Light Guards, Company K, 4th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantr...

Photograph showing four rows of Confederate soldiers with guns and one soldier holding the Confederate flag. Title from item.

Drum Corps, 93rd N.Y. Infantry, Bealton [i.e. Bealeton], Va.

Title from item.

Removing wounded, Fredericksburg, Va.? 57th N.Y. Ambulance Corps.

Title from item. Brady-Handy Collection. Negative in National Archives Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860-1985, Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personali... More

Chattanooga, Tenn. View of Army camp

Title from item. Reproduction of image from unnamed source. Inscribed below image: Vol. 75 opp p. 3708.

Derailed train, Manassas, Va. (Andrew J. Russel)

Title from item. Cropped version of LC-B8184-614 (b&w film copy neg.) Brady-Handy Collection.

Pontoon bridge across James River above Jones' Landing (view from sout...

No. 2537. Title from item. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

City Point, Va., unloading stores for Army of Potomac

Photograph shows men standing on gangplank between boat and dock, with stacks of barrels onshore surrounded by the aftermath of an explosion that took place on August 9, 1864. No. 813. Title from item. Hand wri... More

Port Royal, S.C. [i.e. Va.]

Title from item. Part of Brady-Handy Collection.

[Three U.S. Navy ships, from left, the Macedonian, the Dale, and the S...

Confederate camp, Confederate States of America.

Photograph showing 9th Miss. Confederate soldiers at camp near Pensacola, Fla., Ap. 1861. Title from item. Photo attributed to J. D. Edwards. "Reproduced in Miller, vol. I, p. 201".

Ft. Sumter, the day after its first bombardment

No. 33. Title from item. Printed on board mount: Patriot Publishing Company, Myrick Building, Springfield, Mass. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 9, p. 41". Copyright date: April 11, 1911.

View of battlefield. Peach Tree Creek, Ga.

Part of Brady-Handy Collection. Title from item. Published in: Barnard, George N., Photographic views of Sherman's campaign. New York: Dover Publishers, 1977, E475.97 .B32 1977. Hand written on verso: Similar t... More

View of Chattanooga, Tenn.

Title from item. Brady-Handy Collection.

[Portrait of Union soldier holding a sword]

No. 163. Title devised by library staff.

Twenty-six New York Inf. (i.e. Infantry), Ft. Lyon, Va.

No. H24. Part of Brady-Handy Collection. Similar to LOT 4173, no. 44. Title from item.

Gen. Jeff. C. Davis

Title from item. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photogr... More

The John Ross house, Rossville Gap, Ga. Hdq. of Gen. Gordon Granger, B...

Photograph shows a cabin with a family seated on the porch in a damaged area. Title from item. Brady-Handy Collection. Original print in PH - Barnard, (G), no. 16. Published in: Photographic views of Sherman's ... More

City Point, R.R.

Title from item. Brady-Handy Collection.

Cooking in camp

Gettysburg, battlefield of, Scene of Pickett's charge, 974

Photograph shows clump of trees on left that was point of direction for Pickett's soldiers, monument to 2nd Corps placed near where General Alexander S. Webb was wounded, spot in the center where General Armist... More

Herold, David. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Title from item. Original negative in National Archives Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860-1985, Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes... More

Fort Beauregard, Bay Point, S.C. Nov. 1861

Photograph shows a view inside the fort. No. 205. Title from item. Photographer identified in Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by ... More

Gunboat on the Mississippi

Title from item. Part of the Brady-Handy Collection.

U.S.S. Mendota

Title from item.

(Group of officers & men). American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photographs shows a group of soldiers in camp. Title from item. Brady-Handy Collection.

Shiloh, Confederate States of America, American Civil War.

Title from item. Part of Brady-Handy Collection. Hand written on mount: Probably better captioned: Fort Burnham (previously Confederate Fort Harrison).

Hospital ship, Nashville

Title from item.

Railroad engine at City Point, Va.

Title from item. Brady-Handy Collection.

Civil War, Fort Pulaski

Title from item. Copyright no. J154948, May 4, 1911. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. I, 361.

Battery Rodgers, (interior), vicinity, Alexandria, Va.

Title from item.

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Photograph shows aerial vew of Chattanooga. Title from item. Date based on LOT 4164-E, no. 21. Brady-Handy Collection.

[Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, seated]

Photo shows Abraham Lincoln with a badly swollen hand after shaking hands with thousands of people during his journey to Washington, DC. During most of the sitting he kept his right hand closed or out of view. ... More

[Abraham Lincoln, first profile portrait with a full beard]

Library's photo is reversed. Title devised by Library staff. Ostendorf, no. 44 Meserve, no. 36 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 71.

Docks in City Point, Va.

No. 812. Title from item. Hand written on verso: "James River, City Point, Va." Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

Chain bridge, Washington, D.C.

Title from item. Part of Brady-Handy Collection.

U.S. warship

Title from item.

(Deck of warship)

Title from item. Part of Brady-Handy Collection.

Ruins of Gallego Mills, Richmond, Va.

Title from item. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

Fort Pillow ?, Tenn.

Photograph shows mounted guns and fortifications along the perimeter of a fort.

Battlefield of Bull Run. Soldiers' graves

No. B1250. Title from item. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

White House Landing, Washington, D.C.

Part of Brady-Handy Collection. Title from item.

Group of 21st Michigan Infantry

Group of soldiers [i.e. officers]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Title from item. Part of Brady-Handy Collection.

Fort Totten, Washington, D.C. Interior view

No. B279. Title from item.

Heintzelman, Gen. S. P. and staff, U.S.A., at Arlington, Va.

Title from item. Inscribed in negative: Brady Photo.

Ox team with cannon, 15th & Penn. Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Photograph shows a team of oxen hauling a 15 inch Rodman at the intersection of 15th St. and Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. No. 1486. Title from item.

Corduroy road

Title from item. Brady-Handy Collection.

South Mountain, Maryland?

Title from item. Part of Brady-Handy Collection.

Generals, Barlow, Birney, Gibbon, & Hancock, USA

Photograph shows a group of Federal generals: Winfield Scott Hancock (seated), with division commanders, Francis Channing Barlow, (left), David Bell Birney, and John Gibbon. Title from item.

Chancellorsville, Virginia

Photograph shows two men seated on a hill overlooking the site of the battle. Title from item. Brady-Handy Collection.

Shell damage, Charleston, S.C.

Photograph shows shell damaged buildings on Meeting Street with Hibernian Hall on the left. Title from item. Brady-Handy Collection.

Pontoon bridge

Brady Handy Collection. Title from item.

Confederate camp, Warrington Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, 1861

Photograph shows Company B of the 9th Mississippi in a bivouac camp. The cook is identified as Kinlock Falconer. (Information from the Image of War, 1981).

Pontoon bridge across the James River (Andrew J. Russel)

Title from item. Brady-Handy Collection. Hand written on mount: "See LC-B8184-40474 ZA".

(Sailors on deck of warship)

Title from item. Part of Brady-Handy Collection. Cited in Miller, vol. 6, p. 278-279, as the gunboat Mendota.

Aerial view of a camp in the distance

Title devised by library staff. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

Engine "Fred Leach? (i.e.) The General

Title from item. Printed on mount: (Miller, v. 8, p. 277).

First Conn. Artillery, Ft. Richardson, Arlington Heights, Va.

Title from item.

View from Lookout Mountain, Tenn.

Title from item. Part of Brady-Handy Collection.

Confederate dead on Matthews Hill, Bull Run (i.e. Antietam)

Title from item. Illustrated in: Divided We Fought: A Pictorial History of the War, 1861-1865, p. 21. Illustrated in: Frassanito, William A., E474.65.F7 (P&P) Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloo... More

(River gunboat)

Title from item. Part of Brady-Handy Collection.

Chicamauga (i.e. Chickamauga) battlefield

Part of Brady-Handy Collection. Another print of this negative identifies the location as Resaca, Georgia. Title from item.

General Grant's headquarters at City Point, Va.

No. 2545. Title from item. Mounted with 3 other photographs. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

Lt. Parker and 4th Michigan soldiers

Title from item.

Sheridan, Gen. Phil & staff. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Portrait shows from left: Wesley Merritt, David McMurtrie Gregg, General Sheridan, Henry Eugene Davies, James Harrison Wilson, Alfred Torbert. Title from item. Part of Brady-Handy Collection.