1860s Classic Civil War Album Photo Confederate Prisoners at Gettysburg

  
A classic Civil War image. Original albumen photograph as mounted on its 1860s scrapbook album thin card stock backing.

Subsequently trimmed to borders around photograph and title. Titled in period manuscript, likely by Charles H. Nason (see below) Rebel Prisoners. A fine view of Confederate forces captured during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. They are posed by the rails of a wooden fence holding their belongings, awaiting their fate.

The image measures 3.00 by 3.00 inches on the 3 3/8 x 3 5/8 inch mount. Not identified as to photographer, but almost certainly by Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner or their affiliated photographers. Original albumen image near excellent, upper edge of mount slightly chipped with one tiny area of archival tissue tape reinforcement on the back of the mount. This image is from an album assembled by Charles H. Nason, who signed the album's title page (not for sale) as an enlistee in the 1st Rhode Island Cavalry. The photos generally represented the locations of the unit as it moved through the battlefields and forts in the southeast. It roamed throughout Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D. And other areas over the course of the war. The photos were mounted in a scrapbook with the pages in a state of bad deterioration. Some of these images were also published as stereo views by E.

A nice aspect of many of the views being auctioned are the period ink descriptions by Nason. His untit's early assignment was the defense of the nation's Capitol. The item "1860s Classic Civil War Album Photo Confederate Prisoners at Gettysburg" is in sale since Thursday, January 21, 2016. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Photographic Images\Vintage & Antique (Pre-1940)\Stereoviews".

The seller is "stereohistory" and is located in Pasadena, California. This item can be shipped to United States.