Photograph albums containing 100 photographs, mainly of former Civil War battlefields in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. Photographs were taken years after the Civil War. Other subjects include views in towns near the battlefields, as well as two monuments established in the 1870s. Album I focuses on Bull Run; Antietam, Md.; Shepherdstown, W. Va.; Fredericksburg; Guiney's Station; and Chancellorsville; while Album II focuses on Williamsburg; Bowling Green; Arlington; Richmond; Petersberg; Atlanta, Ga.; and St. Petersburg, Fla. The albums hold mostly albumen prints, but also contain a small number of emulsion-paper prints. The style and size of the photographs vary, and the albums appear to be a compilation of photographs taken by different people at different times. Some photos in Album II are labled in print as the work of the Centennial Photographic Co. and were copyrighted in 1876. The proprietors of this company, Edward Livingston Wilson and Washington Irving Lincoln Adams, are thought to have photographed other scenes in the collection. The location labels for the photographs were handwritten by the same person.
