[Sample sheet of the proposed Album of Civil War scenes]
Contributors: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1907
Place of publication: S.l.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Armed Forces; Officers; Pictorial works; History
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger.

"This sample sheet shows the exact size of pages, the weight of paper, the typographical appearance, etc., of the proposed Album of Civil War scenes selected from more than seven thousand original negatives taken by authority of the War Department during the great war--Valued by President Garfield at $150,000--This remarkable collection was formerly the property of Hon. John C. Taylor, Past Commander, Post No. 50, G. A. R., Hartford, Conn., and Secretary of the Connecticut Prison Association at the State Capitol at Hartford, Conn. Now owned by Edward B. Eaton of Hartford, Connecticut. Write for an agency at once, giving your references, for the War album which is about to be published."

This prospectus contains a copy of p. [14] from Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States / by Mathew B. Brady and Alexander Gardner. Hartford, Conn., 1907.

Contains photograph by Alexander Gardner of Abraham Lincoln with General George B. McClellan and officers at Antietam, Md., October 3, 1862; date in caption: October 4, 1862.

"Copyright 1907 by E. B. Eaton"--Photograph.

Pamphlet, folded sheet.