[CIVIL WAR - MAGIC LANTERN SLIDES]. A collection of 100+ assorted glass slides mostly featuring Civil War photographs, including:

37 glass slides housed in 7 x 4 in. wooden mounts, 6 glass slides housed in 6 x 4 in. wooden mounts, and 69 glass slides, each 4 x 3 1/4 in., unmounted. -- Together, 112 glass slides, some with remnants of original paper labels featuring typed and/or inscribed captions. Conditions vary, though most are fine, with moderate to heavy soiling/wear to paper labels.

Most slides feature photographs credited to Mathew Brady, George Barnard, Timothy O'Sullivan, J. Gardner, and other Civil War photographers and later published as stereoviews by E. & H.T. Anthony and John C. Taylor or in Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Subjects include a group of soldiers standing on and around a destroyed Petersburg Railroad engine in Richmond, VA; a powder monkey aboard the USS Pawnee; General Sherman and his staff at Federal Fort No. 7, 1864; Union soldiers at Fort Sumner on the Chickahominy, 1862; a signal tower on the line before Petersburg, 1864; General Grant at his Headquarters in City Point, VA, 1865; Confederate fortifications reinforced with bales of Cotton at Yorktown, VA, 1862; Norfolk Navy Yard ruins, 1861; mortar "Dictator" in front of Petersburg; wagons from the Quartermaster's Department at Brandy Station, VA; and several others.

Of particular note is a hand-colored image of Fort Sumter under the first Confederate national flag on 4 April, 1861. The original photograph is attributed to Alma A. Pelot of Charleston, SC.

Also of note is an image of Union soldiers tossing an African American child in the air with a large blanket or tarp. Hartford, CT: Taylor & Huntington, n.d.

11 views feature Rome and other landscape scenes.

The Civil War Collection of Dennis C. Schurr