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Nicholson (John Page) Collection: Photograph album of veterans reunions and monuments at Gettysburg, with some Civil War images
photCL 308  
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  • Conditions Governing Access
  • Conditions Governing Use
  • Preferred Citation
  • Immediate Source of Acquisition
  • Scope and Contents
  • Processing Information
  • Custodial History
  • Related Materials

  • Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library Photo Archives
    Title: Photograph album of veterans reunions and monuments at Gettysburg, with some Civil War images
    Identifier/Call Number: photCL 308
    Physical Description: 1 Volume (97 photographs)
    Date (inclusive): approximately 1865-1910
    Date (bulk): 1890-1910
    Abstract: Photographs of veterans reunions, monuments, and landmarks at Gettysburg, approximately 1890 to 1910, with a few 1860s images related to Ulysses S. Grant.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

    Conditions Governing Use

    The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

    Preferred Citation

    photCL 308, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Purchased from Gertrude M. Nicholson, through the agency of Robert O. Schad, September 1922.

    Scope and Contents

    A collection of 97 photographs, chiefly of Civil War veterans, monuments, and other views at Gettysburg National Memorial Park, taken approximately 1890 to 1910. The photographs were compiled into an album (now disbound) by John P. Nicholson, Civil War veteran and collector. There are a few wartime photographs dating to the 1860s, but the majority were taken in the years after the Gettysburg battlefield was designated a national park in 1893. The albumen photographs are various sizes and are mounted on boards. Many depict veterans gathered in groups at Gettysburg, sometimes in front of a monument for a specific army division. Women and children appear in some images, posing with monuments, and there are portraits of individuals in uniforms, mostly unidentified. Other subjects are: landscape views of former battlefields (with annotations identifying landmarks), graves, gun carriages outside a barn, cannons, visitors in horse and buggy, and the Old Soldiers Home (Washington, D.C.). Six small images on page 47 date to much earlier; there are two wartime images of Ulysses S. Grant and officers seated outside a tent; a group of soldiers standing by cabins; and single images of three of Grant's horses, "Jeff. Davis, Cincinnati, and Egypt," at City Point, Virginia, 1865. Some images are by William Tipton and one is credited to F. Gutekunst. The album is disbound, and two photographs have been matted and housed in Box 2.

    Processing Information

    Processed by Huntington Library staff circa mid-20th century. In 2021, Suzanne Oatey created a finding aid.

    Custodial History

    This album was received as part of the Nicholson collection of papers, manuscripts and books related to the Civil War.

    Related Materials

    John Page Nicholson papers and Civil War collection, mssNI 1-990. Additional volumes of photographs from the Nicholson collection: photCL 302, photCL 303, photCL 304, photCL 305, photCL 306, photCL 307, photCL 309.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 -- Monuments
    Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.)
    Veterans -- United States -- History -- 19th century
    War memorials
    United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
    United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields
    United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans
    Photographs
    Photograph albums
    Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
    Tipton, William H., 1850-1929
    Nicholson, John P. (John Page), 1842-
    Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917