Alexander Gardner
American Photographer · 1821–1882
94 works on LinkedCulture
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
Works
![[Abraham Lincoln and His Son Thomas (Tad)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/2867a92c-0cc8-4fda-a4a0-9af180fa757c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Abraham Lincoln and His Son Thomas (Tad)]
Getty Museum · February 5, 1865

Antietam Bridge, Maryland
Getty Museum · September 1862
![Aquia Creek Landing, February, 1863./[Potomac River, below Washington, 1862]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e34ecc62-8113-4b5f-8394-d964f141f5f8/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Aquia Creek Landing, February, 1863./[Potomac River, below Washington, 1862]
Getty Museum · February 1863

A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Getty Museum · July 1863
![[Black soldier standing near chair with hat in seat]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/94194310-ed61-4281-bae9-08d4809dc802/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Black soldier standing near chair with hat in seat]
Getty Museum · about 1862

Burnside Bridge, Across Antietam Creek, Maryland
Getty Museum · September 1862
![[Camp of Meade at Brandy Station, Medical officers' Tent]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5891a6b9-9921-4ed7-b545-46ca87652c9e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Camp of Meade at Brandy Station, Medical officers' Tent]
Getty Museum · 1863
![[Catholic Cathedral, Leavenworth, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1284fc27-d728-45a8-8abf-fad8e820e97f/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Catholic Cathedral, Leavenworth, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867

Company G. 114th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
Getty Museum · 1864
![[Confluence of the Kaw and Missouri Rivers at Wyandotte, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/561731d6-7cab-45d3-b948-58b0999b0624/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Confluence of the Kaw and Missouri Rivers at Wyandotte, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Copy of a photo collage of "Grant's Campaign"]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1d8ed8f0-b555-47c3-9454-27f493949f8a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Copy of a photo collage of "Grant's Campaign"]
Getty Museum · 1864–1865
![[Copy of a photo collage of "McClellan's Campaign"]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/6940d18c-a120-4dbc-b465-250d1928441e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Copy of a photo collage of "McClellan's Campaign"]
Getty Museum · 1864–1865
![[Dead Civil War soldiers in the battlefield]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/16c9d0fc-aa0f-4f47-98ef-2446da521d66/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Dead Civil War soldiers in the battlefield]
Getty Museum · 1863
![[Depot, Lawrence, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/9f8c90b0-d2c4-42fd-b172-ba6c890f7c0d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Depot, Lawrence, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Depot, Leavenworth, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5a70539b-c24e-4dd3-9f66-242eedcef23e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Depot, Leavenworth, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Depot St. Louis, Missouri]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/50ec571e-a3f5-443f-824e-22d6b2a87ef0/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Depot St. Louis, Missouri]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Depot, Topeka, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/fa18ea96-233f-47b0-9777-18bd7ca40850/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Depot, Topeka, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Depot, Wyandotte, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/2f37dd12-bc34-44f8-9892-83b5b95010d6/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Depot, Wyandotte, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Ellsworth, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3af51eb6-603e-4c41-9ba0-9a0fadca8a68/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Ellsworth, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867

Execution of the Conspirators. The Suspension. July 7, 1865.
Getty Museum · July 7, 1865
![[Fort Riley, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e6dbfb47-d067-42ae-b2d1-ab78bd608cb5/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Fort Riley, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/323a624a-fdac-4af7-aafb-7ccecadce1d9/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Group at Junction, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a00fed11-9f21-420c-9c1b-b75dd2ded34a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Group at Junction, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Group at Quarter Master's Department, Ft. Harker, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3beb9fb5-4433-484c-86b9-e4c73d2a0c16/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Group at Quarter Master's Department, Ft. Harker, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Group of Union Officers]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e15f34a8-602e-4117-82c1-96812edc2724/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Group of Union Officers]
Getty Museum · 1861
![[Hayes City, Kansas, Aged Four Weeks]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1950e9b4-b08c-4eb6-b94c-496dd5936346/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Hayes City, Kansas, Aged Four Weeks]
Getty Museum · 1867
![Henry Wilson [18th Vice-President of the United States]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/15f7f590-f7a2-4082-9615-e7de378a31f6/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Henry Wilson [18th Vice-President of the United States]
Getty Museum · 1864–1866

Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg
Getty Museum · July 1863
![[Indian Farm on the Delaware Reservation, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/b3205b28-66e9-45f4-b6c6-cbf5d4e9f33e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Indian Farm on the Delaware Reservation, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867

Indian Hieroglyphic Rock, on Smoky Hill River, Kansas
Getty Museum · 1867

Indian Inscription Rock, at Indian Cave, on Mulberry Creek, Kansas
Getty Museum · 1867

Jericho Mills, North Anna, Virginia
Getty Museum · May 1864
![[Junction City, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/6aedf1fb-333a-46c9-bf83-047596822ac7/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Junction City, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Kansas City, Missouri]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/893593a8-a919-4496-9952-f75f31b42b4f/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Kansas City, Missouri]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Lawrence, Kansas from Fort]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c07c6dc8-248b-4ccf-a421-0be53414e175/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Lawrence, Kansas from Fort]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Lawrence, Kansas, from Mount Oread]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a3c4cadd-9018-48d1-a9fd-710b8af399c5/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Lawrence, Kansas, from Mount Oread]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston Railroad Bridge across the Kaw River at Lawrence, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/07b72f18-588b-4563-a3f3-30c3877b5d28/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston Railroad Bridge across the Kaw River at Lawrence, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Lecompton, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1a58a93f-9d42-4344-9a0b-60fdb044bd43/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Lecompton, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Levee, St. Louis, Missouri]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e91a8fe4-a289-40e4-a8a9-8544504f9b2c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Levee, St. Louis, Missouri]
Getty Museum · 1867

Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia
Getty Museum · April 1864
![[Lincoln Avenue, Wamego, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/8ca40f75-4194-4339-9923-4b08ec7d69d6/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Lincoln Avenue, Wamego, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Manhattan, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/83f52eab-0623-4aac-aeb1-eae02b18f6b6/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Manhattan, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Man wearing a hat, in profile, on horseback]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c67a4fc5-8be1-4d1a-8a47-574dd1eaea16/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Man wearing a hat, in profile, on horseback]
Getty Museum · about 1862
![[Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/39a333fc-6bae-4dc7-84b7-ee4609d5acca/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Moore's Summit, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/87a52d5c-c7cb-4674-8758-40a13e5cf688/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Moore's Summit, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867

Mushroom Rock, on Alum Creek, Kansas
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Office Missouri Pacific Railway, St. Louis, Missouri]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/6c4b6417-e07f-4585-92fd-f40e22999540/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Office Missouri Pacific Railway, St. Louis, Missouri]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Office of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, St. Louis, Missouri]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/67d1a007-a163-404b-a2c0-d397e81ec065/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Office of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, St. Louis, Missouri]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[On the Railroad near Warrenton Junction, Virginia]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e26781bf-7a72-410b-a7f2-39d04117f169/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[On the Railroad near Warrenton Junction, Virginia]
Getty Museum · 1863

Photographic Incidents of the War. All Over Now - Confederate Sharp-Shooter at Foot of Round Top, Gettysburg.
Getty Museum · about 1863

Pontoon Bridge Across the Potomac, at Berlin
Getty Museum · November 1862
![[Pontoon Bridge at Topeka, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/39348856-a382-416f-907d-d018b87210ed/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Pontoon Bridge at Topeka, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867

President Lincoln on Battle-Field of Antietam
Getty Museum · October 1862
![[President Lincoln, United States Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, near Antietam]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d5f4b040-0ccd-4b30-9243-f8611918de62/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[President Lincoln, United States Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, near Antietam]
Getty Museum · October 4, 1862

Quarles' Mill, North Anna, Virginia
Getty Museum · May 1864
![[Railroad Bridge Across Grasshopper Creek, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/997eb1a7-df63-49db-a3bf-d02a6fe7a9a7/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Railroad Bridge Across Grasshopper Creek, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Railroad Bridge Across the Kaw River at Wyandotte, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/eb665372-643f-40ac-bbbb-92984e1ecb28/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Railroad Bridge Across the Kaw River at Wyandotte, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Railroad Bridge across the Republican, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/cfe9d4a5-e5f7-4e0d-b4eb-ec5f16b94105/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Railroad Bridge across the Republican, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Railroad Commissioners at State Line, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d0321238-f9ae-49e9-ab6b-942de2946c46/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Railroad Commissioners at State Line, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867

Ruins of Arsenal, Richmond, Virginia
Getty Museum · April 1865

Ruins of Petersburg and Richmond Railroad Bridge, across the James
Getty Museum · April 1864
![[Salina, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e88251cd-78db-4982-b876-a0df69c0d76c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Salina, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Salina, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/2712a1c7-51c8-4c00-8a93-170d24ad21bd/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Salina, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867

Scene in Pleasant Valley, Maryland
Getty Museum · October 1862

Scouts and Guides to the Army of the Potomac
Getty Museum · October 1862

Sic Semper Sicariis/ Adjusting the Ropes/ No.3
Getty Museum · 1865

Sic Semper Sicariis/ Arrival on Scaffold/ No.1
Getty Museum · 1865

Sic Semper Sicariis/ Reading the Death Warrant No. 2.
Getty Museum · July 7, 1865

Sic Semper Sicariis / (Thus be it ever with Assassins) / No. 4
Getty Museum · 1865
![[State Line Hotel, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/32af5d26-5c7e-49fa-8aca-68f319732bb0/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[State Line Hotel, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[St. Mary's Mission, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/965ecb9d-aefa-4a29-83d1-0dce6d87e6fd/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[St. Mary's Mission, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![Tomb of [George] Washington.](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d11a3013-9cc5-4075-af08-7b7060008c61/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Tomb of [George] Washington.
Getty Museum · about 1870
![[Topeka, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5b1c9bdd-c5e2-4424-a6b9-a0567f837e81/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Topeka, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Trestle Bridge, Abilene, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/7665804b-3fce-451a-b459-8a89aff8aa80/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Trestle Bridge, Abilene, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Trestle Bridge Near Fort Harker, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/aa2e8fb1-9e22-47fc-9eb5-339e2a3ac533/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Trestle Bridge Near Fort Harker, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Turnpike Bridge across the Kaw River near Wyandotte, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ab88f2ab-f729-4151-ba88-a1eb85abc26c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Turnpike Bridge across the Kaw River near Wyandotte, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Turnpike Bridge at Lawrence, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3d39fc69-e3d9-4172-a6e7-4ce72d7955c9/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Turnpike Bridge at Lawrence, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Two Men in Camp]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/81c827e5-aea9-415d-8a0a-6da9d3b104b9/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Two Men in Camp]
Getty Museum · 1862
![[Unidentified man with long, bushy muttonchops, seated in a chair with tassels]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/662468b6-d740-45f1-8acf-f9ef089a3a61/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Unidentified man with long, bushy muttonchops, seated in a chair with tassels]
Getty Museum · about 1865
![[Unidentified man with long muttonchops, printed in vignette-style]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/da4229a7-9c78-4d57-8b4d-e3757f902e7a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Unidentified man with long muttonchops, printed in vignette-style]
Getty Museum · 1864–1865
![[United States Sanitary Commission]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/741a1cd9-9c5d-4e08-a446-90ef3e4c32a3/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[United States Sanitary Commission]
Getty Museum · 1861–1864
![[Ute Tribal Delegation to Washington, D.C.]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/2331b682-8291-44d6-b687-e5b76ec1f5b1/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Ute Tribal Delegation to Washington, D.C.]
Getty Museum · March 1880
![[View in Salt Creek Valley, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/2bf4de7e-23e5-4096-b92a-a9b207a5bd5b/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[View in Salt Creek Valley, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[View of Ditch, Battlefield of Antietam]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c5406637-e118-4f27-bfb4-ecbb9a23201e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[View of Ditch, Battlefield of Antietam]
Getty Museum · September 1862

View on Battle Field of Antietam
Getty Museum · September 1862

View on Canal, near Crenshaw's Mill, Richmond, Virginia
Getty Museum · April 1865
![[View on Kansas River Near Stranger, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5442e16c-f052-42b3-ab27-33773cbd4565/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[View on Kansas River Near Stranger, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[View on the Big Blue River, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/eef169f8-3b2c-4fba-b9e6-8dc9ba0ef70e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[View on the Big Blue River, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[View on the Kansas River at Ft. Riley, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1b09300b-ee18-4acb-a933-8cc881c35936/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[View on the Kansas River at Ft. Riley, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867
![[Warehouse, Fort Harker, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d46cd50e-ae59-4513-9b08-eceb177cc07b/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Warehouse, Fort Harker, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867

"Westward The Course of Empire Takes Its Way": Laying Track 600 Miles West of St. Louis, Missouri
Getty Museum · October 19, 1867

What do I want, John Henry?
Getty Museum · November 1862
![[Wounded at Fredericksburg, May 1864]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/902088f7-f810-4ed2-9a1a-213955eca9a7/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Wounded at Fredericksburg, May 1864]
Getty Museum · May 1864
![[Wyandotte, Kansas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/f01f1481-2a1f-4a15-8e79-f4bc7674db4e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Wyandotte, Kansas]
Getty Museum · 1867