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Military Band at Lookout Mountain

Date: 1864
Description: Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background.
Photograph

Family on Garden Path

Date: 1869
Description: A view up a garden path leads past family members to a bracket-style frame house with outbuildings.
Photograph

Couples on Porch

Date: 1869
Description: View across yard towards two couples on the porch of a frame house, with two girls sitting on the side of the house on the right. Side windows of the house...
Photograph

Knut Knudesen Family

Date: 1869
Description: Knut Knudesen family in yard of large brick house with shuttered windows, stone foundation and trellis at porch.
Photograph

Reed Residence

Date: 1867
Description: View across road towards the home of Curtis Reed.
Historical Object

Framed Leaves

Date: 1860
Description: Skeletonized leaves in oval frame.
Photograph

Malvern Hill

Date: 07 01 1862
Description: "Malvern Hill." The site of the battle in a half-toned photograph from a book.
Photograph

Steamship "Thomas Powell"

Date: 1863
Description: View from shoreline of the side-wheel steamship "Thomas Powell," probably in southern waters. Industrial buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Bedford Springs Cabin

Date: 1860
Description: View of an old cabin, built in 1860, on the grounds of the Bedford Springs Hotel. In the foreground is a dirt road, and a pedestrian is walking near the fe...
Photograph

Monument to Confederate Dead

Date: 1864
Description: An albumen stereograph of a monument to the Confederate dead, in the shape of a stone pyramid with steeply pitched sides.
Photograph

Savanah River, near Savanah, GA

Date: 1866
Description: Trees with Spanish moss along the Savannah River.
Plate 47
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Allatoona from the Etawah

Date: 1866
Description: View towards the Allatoona Pass from behind earthworks overlooking the Etawah River. A railroad bridge crosses the river on the right.
Plate 24
Photograph

Battle Ground of Resacca, GA No. 4

Date: 1866
Description: View of earthworks at the battlefield at Resacca. Dirt roads cross the field in the distance, leading to a farm and what appears to be a river.
Plate 22...
Manuscript

Dousman Receipt from John M. Dunlop

Date: 04 23 1860
Description: Receipt for trees and shrubs purchased from John M. Dunlop by Hercules Dousman for gardens at Villa Louis.
Photograph

Round Top Mountain

Date: 1863
Description: Stereograph of Round Top Mountain, near the site of the Gettysburg battlefield. A man sits on a stump, shading his eyes with his hand, gazing at the mounta...
Photograph

Gettysburg Battlefield Site

Date: 1863
Description: Stereograph of a scene near the site of the Gettysburg battlefield. Two men sit in a wagon in the center of the image.
Photograph

On the Right of Our Line

Date: 1863
Description: Stereograph of Culp's Hill at the site of the Gettysburg Battlefield. A man in a light-colored coat (may be Mathew Brady) is sitting on a boulder in the ce...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Mower & Reaper Catalog Cover

Date: 1869
Description: Features an illustration of a buck in the foreground, and in the background a landscape, which includes on the right a man driving a horse-drawn agricultur...

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