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All test collections depicted in this technology research
demonstration have been made available to the University of Maryland
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies researchers for the sole purpose
of supporting and demonstrating this technology research as conducted in
collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration
Electronic Records Archives Program. All inquiries seeking additional
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collections are appropriately directed to the National Archives and
Records Administration via "inquire@nara.gov"
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| Title |
Hon. William B. Stokes, Tenn., 39th Congress |
| Inclusive Start Date |
1921 |
| Inclusive End Date |
1940 |
| Coverage Start Date |
1860 |
| Coverage Start Date Qualifier |
ca. |
| Coverage End Date |
1865 |
| Coverage End Date Qualifier |
ca. |
| Finding Aid Type |
Other |
| Finding Aid Note |
A duplicate set of prints, arranged by portraits and subjects, is in the Still Picture Branch Research Room. A personality index is also in the Still Picture Branch Research Room Card Catalog. There is also a subject index for these photographs in the Research Room (see the description for RG 111, Series SCY). A copy of the original Signal Corps shelflist is filed with the mounted prints in the stack. In addition, War Department Subject Catalogue No. 5, produced by the War Department in 1897, contains a listing of the Brady negatives. A copy of this catalog is also in the Research Room. |
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Record Group Information
| Inclusive End Date |
1982 |
| Data Control Group |
LCS |
| Title |
Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer |
| Inclusive Start Date |
1860 |
| Record Group Number |
111 |
Series Information
| Organization Creator Type |
Most Recent |
| Coverage Start Date |
1860 |
| Creating Organization |
War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. |
| Scope and Content Note |
This series consists of several thousand glass plates (and modern derivativecopies including prints, duplicate negatives, interpositives, and microfilm)which were produced by the photographer Mathew Brady and his associates. Brady(1823-1896) was one of the earliest practitioners of daguerreotype in the UnitedStates and soon became a prolific portrait photographer. In his New York andWashington, DC studios, he and his assistants photographed many of theluminaries of the 1850s and 1860s. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Brady endeavored to record theprogress of the war with his camera. He and his associates, notably AlexanderGardner, George Barnard, and Timothy O'Sullivan, traveled throughout the easternpart of the country and photographed many of the battlefields, towns, and peopletouched by the war. In addition, Brady photographed many of the distinguishedpolitical and military personalities who found time to stop by his Washington,DC studio. The result was a collection of some 12,000 images (possibly more)which comprises a rich visual document of the Civil War period.After the Civil War, business for Brady's studios gradually declined, until inJuly 1874 Secretary of War William Belknap purchased part of Brady's collectionof negatives (ca. 2,250 plates) at public auction for $2,500 because of Brady'sbankruptcy. In April 1875, the War Department purchased 3,735 plates directlyfrom Brady under express Congressional authorization to "acquire a full andperfect title to secure and purchase the remainder now in possession of theartists [for] $25,000." The plates languished in the War Department's WarRecords Office until, in 1886, they were transferred to the Supply Divsion. In1888 the collection was transferred to the War Department Library, in responseto numerous requests for its use. During this period, in 1897, the WarDepartment produced a catalog listing, by subjects and personalities, all of theimages found in Brady's plates. In 1921 the Office of the Chief Signal Officersecured custody of the collection in order to make duplicate prints and providecopies to the public. At the same time, the Signal Corps produced a personalityindex for the collection. This 1921 date has been used by the National Archivesto establish the beginning date for this series of records. In 1940 the Bradycollection was accessioned by the National Archives. Another significant part ofBrady's vast collection of negatives was purchased by the Library of Congress in1943 from the Phelps Publishing Co. of Springfield, MA. Other collections ofBrady photographs are in the Frederick Hill Meserve Collection and the New YorkPublic Library's collection. Included in this series are portraits of all of the well-known Union andConfederate commanders of the war, President Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinetofficers, congressmen and senators, and other noted personalities of the time.In addition, Brady and his cameramen focused on the lives of ordinary soldiers,recording daily life in camp, troops on the move, and life in forward positions.Also of interest in this series are views of Union and Confederate navalvessels, railroads, supply dumps, and hospitals. All photographs containcaptions.One roll of microfilm in this series, produced by the National Archives,contains views of Washington, DC, railroads, Petersburg, VA; Shiloh, TN;portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and UlyssesGrant; and views of Gettysburg, PA and City Point, VA. The National Archivesalso has published a four-roll set of the Brady photographs, along with the 1897catalog. These are Microfilm Publications T-251 and T-252.NOTE: See thedescription for RG 165, Series ALB, for more information about the negativesproduced by Mathew Brady and his associates. NOTE: ORIGINAL NEGATIVES ARE NOT TOBE FURNISHED TO RESEARCHERS OR VENDORS WITHOUT THE SPECIAL PERMISSION OF THEBRANCH CHIEF. |
| Inclusive End Date |
1940 |
| Data Control Group |
NWCS-S |
| Arrangement |
Arranged numerically by War Department-assigned item number. |
| Inclusive Start Date |
1921 |
| Author Description Date |
11/1996 |
| Numbering Note |
Record Group, Series, Item Number. EXAMPLE: 111-B-1769 |
| Title |
Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes |
| Record Group Number |
111 |
| Coverage End Date |
1865 |
| Access Restriction Status |
Unrestricted |
| Staff Only Note |
Related Records: Other Civil War-era photographs and illustrations are in RG 111, Series BA and BZ, and in RG 165, Series A, B, C, CO, CS, PR, PV, and SB. |
| Use Restriction Status |
Unrestricted |
Item Information
| Data Control Group |
NWCS-S |
| Coverage Start Date Qualifier |
ca. |
| Coverage End Date Qualifier |
ca. |
| Title |
Hon. William B. Stokes, Tenn., 39th Congress |
| Author Description Date |
09/17/1997 |
| Record Group Number |
111 |
| Coverage End Date |
1865 |
| Coverage Start Date |
1860 |
| Access Restriction Status |
Unrestricted |
| Use Restriction Status |
Unrestricted |
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