Quaker Guns, Centreville, Virginia, plate 6 from Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, Volume I
James F. Gibson, American, 1828/29 - unknown
George N. Barnard, American, 1819 - 1902
Barnard & Gibson, American, active 1862
March 1862; print 1865
Albumen print from wet collodion negative
Image: 7 × 9 1/16 in. (17.8 × 23 cm)
Sheet: 13 3/16 × 18 1/16 in. (33.5 × 45.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Harley and Stephen C. Osman, Class of 1956, Tuck 1957
PH.2004.77.57
Printer
Alexander Gardner
Publisher
Philip & Solomons Publishers, Washington, D.C.
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, beneath image: Negative by BARNARD & GIBSON. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1865, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. Positive by A. GARDNER, 511 7th St., Washington. Printed, lower center margin: QUAKER GUNS, CENTREVILLE, VIRGINIA. Printed, lower left: No.6.; Printed, lower right: March, 1862.
Course History
ENGL 29, American Fiction to 1900, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2014
WRIT 7.24, Past Imperfect, Cynthia Monroe, Spring 2019
WRIT 7.24, Past Imperfect, Cynthia Monroe, Spring 2019
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
HIST 7.32, Civil War Photographs, Robert Bonner, Winter 2022
Exhibition History
Bringing the War Home: Photographs of the Civil War, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 13-October 2012.
The Civil War Remembered: Photographs and Artifacts, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, January 22-April 2, 2006.
Provenance
Harley and Stephen C. Osman, Stamford, Connecticut; given to present collection, 2004.
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