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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE WESTERN AR:\riES The Civil War was the first great war to be photographed. Tlic art had just arisen. The daguerreotypehad been superseded liy Ihe tintype, and the wet-plate metliod (still in vogue in the))est portrait galleries)was then in the height of its excellence. It is a fortunate thing in recording the history of the time thatthe camera was in existence. In Corinth there was a firm of photographers occupying a little woodenshack in the outskirts of the town. They did a thriving business during the occupancy by the Confeder-ates and by the Federals. George Armstead was a wonderful photographer—rivaling Brady at his best.In the picture he is standing back to the left, near where some of his negatives are printing in the sun; infront of the shop a drummer-boy stands with folded arms near the civilians who loll against the post. Whatwould we not gi^•e for a nearer glimpse of the samples of Armsteads work on the right of the doorway!The little frame of portr

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