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Civil War photos
There were no action photos in the 1860s, but the stunning images that men like Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner and others captured during the Civil War more than enlightened the home front about the horrors of those four tragic years. “Between the States: Photographs From the American Civil War,” a traveling exhibit on loan from the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, opened Saturday and runs through May 13 at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown. Posted on April 1, 2012.
Harriet Tubman, left, is shown with her family and friends at the Auburn Home for the Aged and Indigent Negros in 1887. This photo is part of “Between the States: Photographs From the American Civil War” at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown. The photographer is unknown. (Image courtesy of the Eastman House)
A daguerreotype of two soldiers seated with an American flag is part of the exhibit. (Image courtesy of the Eastman House)
“Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter,” taken by Alexander Gardner in 1863, showing a dead Confederate soldier at Gettysburg, is part of “Between the States: Photographs From the American Civil War” at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown. (Image courtesy of the Eastman House)
This battle scene, produced by C.W. Briggs Company, was in the picture book, "American History," which was published in 1865. (Image courtesy of the Eastman House)
When James Gardner took this photo of the Norfolk Navy Yard in Virginia in 1864, the place was in ruins. The image appeared in Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. (Image courtesy of the Eastman House)
