Alexander Gardner
Scouts and Guides to the Army of the Potomac
1862
Intelligence gatherers pose for Gardner's camera in one of the war's earliest documentation of military reconnaissance operations. The group portrait format reveals how photography served both documentary and propaganda purposes during the Civil War.
- Medium
- Albumen print, pl. 28 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
Spotted works by Alexander Gardner
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