Photography became a part of public life in the mid-19th century, especially during the Civil War, when photographers documented American battlefields for the first time.

Civil War In Motion In May and June 1864, during Union Gen. U.S. Grant’s bloody Overland Campaign in Virginia, photographer Egbert Guy Fowx took a remarkable series of glass plate negatives with four images on each plate.

2011年6月28日 · Here are some animated stereoviews from the Smithsonian's Photographic History Collection to show the images in 3-D by flickering the right and left sides of the views. Your eyes and brain will...

When the early events of the Civil War suggested no immediate resolution of the conflict, O’Sullivan abandoned the Washington, D.C., gallery for four years in the field. He worked constantly, producing outstanding views of bridges, encampments, hospitals, and battlefields that he sent back to Washington, first to Brady and then to Alexander ...

Motion pictures also served as entertainment during leisure time for urban audiences. Initially the movies were novelties in kinetoscope viewers, until they became acts in their own right on the vaudeville stage. As motion pictures became longer, they moved into storefront Nickelodeon theaters and then into even larger theaters. Further Afield

2009年12月22日 · The iconic photos of the American Civil War would not only directly affect how the war was viewed from the home front, but it would also inspire future combat photographers who would take their cameras to the trenches of Flanders, the black sands of Iwo Jima, the steaming jungles of Vietnam, and the deserts of Afghanistan.

2011年2月8日 · Though getting on in years, some Civil War veterans were still in their early sixties and the youngest was said to be 61. The reunion gave the veterans a chance to visit the battlefield hotspots of their memories, swap stories and souvenirs, and do the myriad little things that make battlefield reunions so special to the surviving veterans.

2012年6月12日 · Despite the presence of cameras near the battlefield during the Civil War, the first actual photo of combat itself wasn’t captured until the Franco Prussian War. The image (at the top) snapped on Sept. 1, 1870 from a French position, shows a line of …

The camera changed how many Americans saw the Civil War – and exposed millions to the horrors of conflict for the very first time

2009年1月18日 · You’ve seen plenty of still photographs from Gettysburg and maybe even early motion pictures of Civil War veterans in a parade. But did you know that there is a video with audio of Gettysburg veterans talking? To hear the actual voices of Civil War veterans is a jaw-dropping experience and, if you’re like us, it will make the little hairs ...