Photograph album of veterans reunions and monuments at Gettysburg, with some Civil War images photCL 308
Suzanne Oatey
The Huntington Library
May 2021
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San Marino, California 91108
reference@huntington.org
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.
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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.
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.
Processed by Huntington Library staff circa mid-20th century. In 2021, Suzanne Oatey
created a finding aid.
This album was received as part of the Nicholson collection of papers, manuscripts and
books related to the Civil War.
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