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Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xxv, 251 p. : col. ill. ; 27 x 32 cm.
Description
"In an era before photography could capture the excitement and drama of battle, illustrators known as "Special Artists"--among them such celebrated draftsmen as Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast--created some of the most important, influential and enduring images of the Civil War. Reporting to newspapers like Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated News, the Specials were prototypes for contemporary combat photographers. They brought a visceral...
Pub. Date
©1994
Physical Desc
1371 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
These spectacular photographs offer a pictorial record without equal of the Civil War. In Nearly 2,000 extraordinary and often rare images, accompanied by illuminating essays by many of the foremost historians of the Civil War, the action is presented as it really happened and as it was actually recorded by the camera. The result offers an intensely moving portrait of an America divided more than a century ago, capturing the mercurial moods, the valor,...
11) The Civil War times illustrated : photographic history of the Civil War: II, Vicksburg to Appomattox
Pub. Date
©1994
Physical Desc
1366 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Written and compiled by the nation's leading authorities, with nearly 2,000 photographs in each volume (many published only in these collections).
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