print email comment close Civil War Photographs URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html Description: This collection of 1,118 Civil War photographs can be searched by keyword, browsed by subject, or viewed by year. There is a list of represented photographers (most of the photographs were made under the direction of Matthew Brady), a brief article on how photographs of the era were made, bibliographies, related links, and an essay, Does the Camera Ever Lie? , about how the photographer got his desired message into his pictures. Administered by the Library of Congress. Publisher: Library of Congress Library of Congress Subject Headings: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs LII Database Information: Record 7656 created by Marcia Coudyser on 11/15/1999 Last modification on 08/24/2004 Published: 11/15/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/7656