American Memory:  Technical summary

URL http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html

Collection Overview

Description

Photographs, most made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, that include scenes of depict military personnel and facilities, primarily from a Union perspective. Includes the main Eastern theater, the federal navy and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, the war in the West, Washington, D.C., African Americans, fortifications, battlefields, preparations for battle and the aftermath of battle. Also, many portraits of officers and enlisted men, and of federal and confederate government members, including Abraham Lincoln and his assassins.

Source collection

Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865 , Prints and Photographs Division.
LCCN 94-837685 [Link to catalog record (z39.50 query) will not work when main cataloging system is not available.] .

Technical features

Scenes and portraits, image quality is good.

Original material formats

• Copy photographs

Number of original items

1,118

Status of collection

Available online as of November 1997.

Public access

The Library is not aware of any restrictions that inhibit public access to this collection. See notes on rights and restrictions provided by the Library to users of this collection.

Aids to intellectual access

Type & granularity

MARC bibliographic records. Each bib. record describes a single item.
Sample bibliographic display in American Memory.

Linking to digital reproductions

Bibliographic record contains identifier used in filenames for all versions of image. Last character of filename is feature code for image type.

Digital reproductions

Total file-space for digital reproductions: 682 Mbytes

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