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CIVIL WAR - Photography. Collection of approximat

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New York: ca. 1900. Various sizes, including many reproducing cartes-de-visite. Prints mounted on card in two contemporary albums. Condition: prints in generally good condition with intermittent minor fading; albums broken with card mounts loose or disbound, covers worn. Provenance: Purchased from the estate of Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews. A wide selection of images collected by the editors of the Review of Reviews in preparation for the publication of their iconic The Photographic History of the Civil War (1911), with the images labeled in red ink on the mounts underneath each. While most of the images are of Union generals in uniform as copied from wartime cdv portraits (including Grant in mulitple images, Sheridan, Porter, Sickles, etc.) many lesser-known generals are depicted as are generals with their staff in the field. These images in camp include Gregg, Griffin, Hancock, Grant, Torbert, Merritt and Sumner. Some well-known images are reproduced in these albums, including the Brady portrait of Grant in front of his tent at Cold Harbor and a striking portrait of John Bell Hood. Battlefield images were taken both during and immediately after the war and include Bull Run, a Charleston street devastated by shelling, a view from Lookout Mountain and another near Chattanooga, soldiers in an 1864 field hospital and Rebel prisoners being marched. Other photographs of note include the interior of a Union gunboat, the launching of a balloon for aerial recon and a few seemingly unrelated to the war; actors, a horse race and Edgar Allen Poe.

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