Search Results
- IDNO:
- 001214
- Title:
- Snider, Colonel Joseph of Morgantown
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- Description:
- Portrait of Colonel Joseph Snider of Morgantown, 7th W. Va. Infantry.
- IDNO:
- 001237
- Title:
- Thompson, Colonel Francis W.
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- Description:
- Colonel Francis W. Thompson, of Morgantown 6th W. VA. Cavalry, copied from Lang's Loyal West Virginia.
- IDNO:
- 006611
- Title:
- Federal Troop Train at Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- Description:
- A Winchester and Potomac Railroad train carrying Federal Troops passes through Virginius Island at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The shell of the Abraham Herr Mill, burned by Confederate soldiers in 1861, can be seen in the center of the photograph.
- IDNO:
- 006657
- Title:
- Elevated View of Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- Description:
- The photograph was most likely taken from Camp Hill overlooking the lower town.
- IDNO:
- 007538
- Title:
- Portrait of Martinsburg Woman in Hoop Dress
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- IDNO:
- 010926
- Title:
- Suspension Bridge Across the Monongahela at Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- Description:
- 'The population of Morgantown in 1865 was 684.'
- IDNO:
- 038504
- Title:
- Portrait of Unidentified Woman Taken During Civil War Era
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- Description:
- The young woman is wearing a dress with garibaldi sleeves, a popular fashion in the mid 1860s. Her a hair is also styled in the fashion of that period.
- IDNO:
- 038939
- Title:
- Aunt Ri and Troy Perkins
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- Description:
- A carte de visite photograph of a woman holding a small child. There is a federal revenue stamp on the back of the photograph, indicating a tax had been paid on the image. This stamp tax was passed by Congress to pay for raising costs of the Civil War from 1864 to 1866.
- IDNO:
- 038968
- Title:
- Civil War Era Portrait of Unidentified Woman
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- Description:
- This carte de visite has a federal revenue stamp on the back indicating a tax was paid on the photograph. This tax was passed by Congress, 1864-1866, to pay for the war. The young woman is wearing the fashion and hair style of the Civil War period.
- IDNO:
- 039364
- Title:
- Cased Portrait of Unidentified Child, Point Pleasant, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- Description:
- An ambrotype portrait of a small boy, probably the son of G. P. Gardner of Point Pleasant, Mason County.
- IDNO:
- 039370
- Title:
- Cased Portrait of Nathaniel Bailee [Baillie] of Hansford, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- Description:
- An ambrotype portrait of Nathaniel Alcock Bailee [Baillie] dressed in an unidentified uniform. Bailee was a chief civil engineer during the construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in the Kanawha Valley, ca. 1867-1873.
- IDNO:
- 040241
- Title:
- Charles Bigelow
- Date:
- ca. 1865
- Description:
- Inscribed on the back of photograph, "My uncle R. O. B.". Also has a 2 cent U. S. tax revenue stamp.