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Scene in Pleasant Valley, Maryland
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Alexander GardnerAmerican Photographer · 1821–1882
All works by this person →As an idealistic young reporter and newspaper editor in Glasgow, Scotland, Alexander Gardner dreamed of forming a semi-socialistic colony somewhere in what he thought of as the unspoiled wilderness of America. He selected a place in Iowa, but even though he sent family and friends to live there, Gardner never joined them. Instead, when he disembarked in New York he remained. The celebrated America
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- October 1862
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Group portrait of several Union Army officers after the Battle of Antietam. Pictured with the officers is Mary Ellen Marcy ("Nelly") McClellan, wife of Union General George B. McClellan. The group sits on the steps leading up to the porch of a house covered with vines as they face the camera. A black woman in uniform stands off to the side, leaning against the porch with one hand in her pocket.
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