SMU Library Puts 2 Photo Collections Of Civil War, Texas Online
The Civil War: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection contains a variety of photographs related to the people, places and events of the war. The collection includes a unique set of cartes de visite of Civil War generals and related officials. The online collection, a sampling of the library’s holdings, includes an album of photographs by T. Dwight Biscoe (1840-1930) and Walter S. Biscoe (1853-1933) made on an 1884 trip through Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, primarily of Civil War battlefields and locales. Mounts include detailed descriptions about the battles and the date, time and weather when the photographs were made. Sites include the battlefields of Fisher’s Hill, Cedar Creek, Harpers Ferry, Antietam and Hagerstown, Md. The Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs digital collection contains a wide range of early Texas photography, including cartes de visite, cabinet cards, oversized photos and stereographs. The subjects of the 5,000 photos include Confederate and Union soldiers and officers and a wide spectrum of Texan citizens, including African American, Indian, Hispanic and Caucasian women, men, and children. The photographs and related information convey the state’s social and domestic life, architecture, transportation, ranching, agriculture, commerce, material culture, costume and urban and rural history. According to the library, the Jones collection is one of the most comprehensive and valuable Texas-related photography collections. It documents all aspects of photography, from daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes and stereographs to paper print photographs in various formats. In addition to depicting a large array of subjects and styles, the collection features works by numerous photographers, both professional and itinerant, who documented Texas, the contiguous states and Mexico circa 1846-1945. To see the photographs go to http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul
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