Timothy O’Sullivan, Ancient Ruins, Canyon de Chelly, 1873

Improvements in communications and transportation during the 19th century narrowed distances between people.

• Took away a sense of isolation.• People felt more connected to the world. They wanted more information

about the world outside their village community.• Seeing was equated with knowing.• The more people saw, the more they felt they possessed knowledge of

the world.• The photograph fulfilled a desire for knowledge.

War coverage did not becaome feasible until the collodion - wet plate- era.

The Crimean War (1853-56) was the first major conflict to be covered by newspaper reporters, artists and photographers.

• Roger Fention was commissioned to photograph the war,• The British government wanted photographic evidence which would deny reports

of the inefficiency of British military.

Fenton, Ordinance Wharf at Balaclava Harbor, 1855

Fenton, Crimean War Officers, 1855

Fenton, British Officer at Ease, 1855

Fenton, Still Ife, 1840

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Fenton, Sir William Russell, 1855

Fenton, Cookhouse, 1855

Fenton, A Quiet Day at the Mortar Battery, 1855

Fenton, Hardships of Camp Life, 1855

Fenton, Nurse (Florence Nightingale) and Wounded Man, 1855

Fenton, Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1855

The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861. The war lasted 4 years and saw 2.9 million men in uniform, and produced over 1 million casualties.

Portrait of Matthew Brady

Brady’s What is it? Wagon

Brady, Back View of Col. Bensen’s Headquarters

Bull Run River With Destroyed Bridge

Brady, Dead Rebel Soldier stereo card

Brady, Front View of the Washington Arsenal

Brady, Confederate Dead

Brady, Portrait of Lincoln, 1863

Brady, Portrait of Lincoln, used for U.S. penny.

Brady, Portrait of General Custer,1875.

Alexander Gardner, Breaking Camp.

Gardner, Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter, 1863.

Gardner, Lincoln on the Battlefield, October, 1863.

Gardner, Lewis Payne, from the Lincoln Conspiracy Album, 1865.

Gardner, George A. Atzerodt, from the Lincoln Conspiracy Album, 1865.

Gardner, Execution Site, from Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators, July 7,1865.

Gardner, The Four Condemned Conspirators, from Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators, July 7,1865.

Gardner, Adjusting the Rope, from Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators, July 7,1865.

Gardner, General Reading Death Warrant to Conspirators, from Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators, July 7,1865.

Gardner, The Hanging, including Mary Sarratt, the first woman to be executed by the U.S. government,, July 7,1865.

Timothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, July,1863.

O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, as seen in Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War,1865-66.

O’Sullivan, Tufa Domes, Pyramid Lake, 1867.

O’Sullivan, Canyon de Chelly, New Mexico, 1873.

O’Sullivan, Walls of the Canyon, New Mexico, 1873.

O’Sullivan, New Mexico, 1873.

O’Sullivan, Sioux Springs Marsh, Nevada, 1875.

William Henry Jackson, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1883.

Jackson, Twin Lakes, 1883.

Members of the Hayden Survey Team, 1878.

Jackson with camera, Suni Pueblo, NM, ND.

Jackson, Geyser, Yellowstone.

Jackson, Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, AZ.

Jackson with field equipment

Jackson at work

Jackson, Sandstone Monuments

Jackson, Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone

Jackson, Niagra Falls, NY, 1890.

George N. Barnard, Burning Mills,Oswego, NY, 1890.

Barnard, City of Atlanta, 1860s.

Barnard, Rebel Works, Atlanta 1860s.

Barnard, Rebel Works, 1860s.

Andrew Joseph Russell, Stone Wall With Rebel Dead, 1860s.

Russell, Construction of the RR at Green River, WY, 1867-68.

Russell, Meeting of the Rails-the Union and Central Pacific, Utah, 1869.

Manuel Leutze, Westward, the Course of Empire Takes its’ Way, oil on canvas 1861.

Russell, Hanging Rock, Echo Canyon, Nevada, 1867.

Russell, Skull Rock, Dale Creek, Wyoming, 1867.

Carlton E. Watkins, Yosemite Valley from Mariposa Trail,1860s.

Watkins, Mount Broderick & Nevada Fall,1863.

Eadward Muybridge, Water Asleep, Mirror Lake, Yosemite, 1863.

Muybridge, Cloud’s Nest, Yosemite, 1872.

Muybridge, The Sentinel, Yosemite, 1872.

Muybridge, Yosemite, 1872.