Photographs of Women During the Civil War: Selected Images

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4730

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	Title: Clara Barton Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-19319
	Title: Dorothea Lynde Dix Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-9797
	Title: Mother Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-79788
	Title: [Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, seated, wearing Medal of Honor] Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-8542
	Title: [Mrs. Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Confederate spy, during her imprisonment in the Old Capitol. Full-length portrait, seated, her daughter standing beside her.] Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-3131 Notes: Search the Brady-Handy Collection for "Greenhow" to see additional photographs of Greenhow.
	Title: Belle Boyd Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-01988 Notes: Search the Brady-Handy Collection for "Belle Boyd" to see additional photographs of Boyd.
	Title: John H. Morgan & wife, C.S. A. Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-07514
	Title: [Portrait of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, officer of the Federal Army, and his wife, Ellen Mary Marcy] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-05665
	Title: John H. Morgan & wife, C.S. A. Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-07514
	Title: Brig. Gen. Charles P. Stone, & wife? Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04444
	Title: Gen. George Custer & Wife Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-03129
	Title: Gen. George Custer & Wife Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-03130
	Title: Washington, District of Columbia. Tent life of the 31st Penn. Inf. (later, 82d Penn. Inf.) at Queen's farm, vicinity of Fort Slocum Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01663 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: Washington, District of Columbia. Tent life of the 31st Penn. Inf. (later, 82d Penn. Inf.) at Queen's farm, vicinity of Fort Slocum Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01666 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Young girl at Aiken house Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01916 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: Richmond, Virginia. Gen. Edward O.C. Ord, wife and child at the residence of Jefferson Davis. In the doorway is the table on which the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee was signed Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-02928 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: Richmond, Virginia. Gen. Edward O.C. Ord, wife and child at the residence of Jefferson Davis. In the doorway is the table on which the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee was signed Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-02930 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: Maj. Gen. Edward Otho Cresap Ord and family Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-06221
	Title: [City Point, Va. Brig. Gen. John A. Rawlins, Chief of Staff, with wife and child at door of their quarters] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-02954 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: City Point, Virginia. Gen. John A. Rawlins, wife and child at Grant's headquarters Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03365 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: [Cedar Mountain, Va. Family group before the house in which Gen. Charles S. Winder (C.S.A.) died] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-00204
	Title: Culpeper, Virginia (vicinity). John Minor Botts and family Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03718
	Title: Frederick, Maryland. Tynan and children Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03743
	Title: [Stevensburg, Va. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, 3d Division, Cavalry Corps, with ladies and staff members on the porch of headquarters] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03721
	Title: Washington, District of Columbia. Group in front of Christian Commission storehouse Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04358
	Title: City Point, Virginia. Gen. Rufus Ingalls and group Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03949
	Title: City Point, Virginia. Rufus Ingalls and group Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04022
	Title: [Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia (vicinity)]. Group at Captain W.S. Hall's wagon camp Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03975
	Title: Arlington, Virginia (vicinity). Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman and staff at Arlington house. (Mathew B. Brady, the photographer is shown in a top hat) Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01481 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: Arlington, Virginia (vicinity). Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman and staff at Arlington house. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-92391 (b&w film copy neg.)
	Title: Captain Ballerman's kitchen. Tasting the soup Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01680
	Title: Departure from the old homestead Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-00943
	Title: [Falmouth, Va. Group in front of post office tent at Army of the Potomac headquarters] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03803
	Title: [Fort Monroe, Va. Officers and ladies on porch of a garrison house] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03816
	Title: Gen. S.P. Heintzelman and group--Convalescent camp, near Alexandria, Va. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-124356 (b&w film copy neg.)
	Title: A Ward in Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C. Reproduction number: LC-USZC4-7976 (color film copy transparency)
	Title: Band of 9th Veteran Reserve Corps, Washington, D.C., April, 1865 Reproduction number: LC-B8184-7807 (b&w film copy neg.)
	Title: Headquarters of Blenkers Brigade Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-92594
	Title: [Washington, D.C. Group before office of U.S. Christian Commission, 8th and H Sts. NW] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04165
	Title: Wounded soldiers from the battles in the "Wilderness" at Fredericksburg, Va., May, 1864 Reproduction number: LC-USZC4-4582 (color film copy transparency)
	Title: Appomattox Court House, Virginia. McLean house Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01396
	Title: Nashville, Tennessee. View of city Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-02084 (b&w copy scan of left half) Note: A woman is seen standing in the lower right corner of the photograph.
	Title: [Richmond, Va. The Old Stone House ("Washington's headquarters," 1916 East Main Street] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-02767 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01428 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: Washington, District of Columbia. The grand review of the Army. Presidential reviewing stand with guests and guard Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-02792 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: Washington, District of Columbia. The grand review of the Army. Presidential reviewing stand with guests and guard Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-02793 (b&w copy scan of left half) Note: Search the Civil War Photographs for "Grand Review" to see many more photographs from the Grand Review of the Army in Washington, D.C. with women in attendance.
	Title: [Appomattox Court House, Va. Civilians in front of the hotel] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03742
	Title: [Bull Run, Va. Dedication of the battle monument; Judge Abram B. Olin of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, who delivered the address, stands by the rail] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03773
	Title: Washington, D.C. The four condemned conspirators (Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Herold, Atzerodt), with officers and others on the scaffold; guards on the wall] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04227
	Title: [Washington, D.C. Gen. John F. Hartranft reading the death warrant to the conspirators on the scaffold] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04228
	Title: [Washington, D.C. Adjusting the ropes for hanging the conspirators] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04229
	Title: [Washington, D.C. Hanging hooded bodies of the four conspirators; crowd departing] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04230
	Title: [White House Landing, Va. Headquarters of the U.S. Christian Commission] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01805 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: [Washington, D.C. Crowd in front of Presidential reviewing stand] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-02933 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: Aiken's House, James River, Va. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-119940
	Title: [View in the "Burnt District," Richmond, Va., showing two women dressed in black approaching shell of four-story building, gutted by fire] Reproduction number: LC-USZC4-4593 (color film copy transparency)
	Title: [Fredericksburg, Va. Cooking tent of the U.S. Sanitary Commission] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01197
	Title: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Officers of 50th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03896 Note: Women are to the far left in the picture.
	Title: Sunday Morning Mass. Camp of 69th N.Y. SM Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-06588. Image from photographic print also available: LC-USZC4-7964 (color film copy transparency) Note: Women are seated with parasols to the left of the priest.
	Title: [Gettysburg, Pa. Headquarters of Gen. Robert E. Lee on the Chambersburg Pike] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01652 (b&w copy scan of left half) Note: A woman is seen in the lower right corner of the photograph.
	Title: Washington, District of Columbia. Brig. Gen. Charles Thomas, Assistant Quartermaster General and other staff on steps of Quartermaster General's office, Corcoran's Building, 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04250
	Title: [Alexandria, Va. The Marshall House, King and Pitt Streets] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01463 (b&w copy scan of left half) Note: A woman stands in the open window on the second story of the house.
	Title: Alexandria, Virginia. Christ Church Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01476 (b&w copy scan of left half) Note: A group of women are standing in the distance to the left of the man.
	Title: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. John L. Burns cottage. (Burns seated in doorway) Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01662 (b&w copy scan of left half) Note: A woman stands in the doorway.
	Title: [Nashville, Tenn. Railroad yard and depot with locomotives; the Capitol in distance] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-02111 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: Culpeper, Virginia (vicinity). Residence of John Minor Botts. (Family on porch) Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03726
	Title: [Brandy Station], Virginia. Gen. David B. Birney and staff Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04369
	Title: [Appomattox Court House, Va. McLean house] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03957
	Title: [District of Columbia. Band before quarters at Camp Stoneman] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-03763 Note: A woman is in front of the tent between the two horses on the right side of the photograph.
	Title: Washington, District of Columbia. Maimed soldiers and others before office of U.S. Christian Commission Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04357
	Title: [Fredericksburg, Va. Nurses and officers of the U.S. Sanitary Commission] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01195
	Title: Alexandria, Virginia. Sanitary Commission lodge. Convalescent Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01391 (b&w copy scan of left half)
	Title: Manassas, Virginia. Yellow hospital Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04366
	Title: [Richmond, Va. First African Church (Broad Street)] Reproduction number: LC-DIG-cwpb-02904 (b&w copy scan of left half) Note: Possibly one or two white women standing in middle of the group?
[No digital image]	Title: "U.S. Christian Commission at Gettysburg General Hospital" Albumen print, [photographed 1863 August; printed later]. Reproduction number: LC-B8184-5352 (b&w film negative) Location of original: LOT 4180 Notes: Five women standing with men, including wounded men, outside tents, with signs "U.S. Christian Commission" above.
[No digital image]	Title: "U.S. Sanitary Commission at Gettysburg General Hospital" Albumen print, [photographed 1863 August; printed later]. Reproduction number: LC-B8184-5351 (b&w film negative) Location of original: LOT 4180-A Notes: Three women seated and standing with men outside tent; wooden sign bearing words "U.S. Sanitary Commission," wreath, and star hanging above them. Reproduced in The Image of War, volume 4, p. 270.