Is This Death - Antietam Battlefield, September 1862

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.)
Date: 1862
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1970
Accession no.: 1970.537.6

Burying the Dead on the Battlefield of Antietam, September 1862
Alexander Gardner
1862 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00000511
Antietam Bridge, On the Sharpsburg and Boonsboro Turnpike, No. 1, September 1862
Alexander Gardner
1862 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00000512
Antietam Bridge, On the Sharpsburg and Boonsboro Turnpike, No. 2, September 1862
Alexander Gardner
1862 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00000513
Pontoon Bridge, Across the Potomac, at Berlin, Maryland, November 1862
Alexander Gardner
1862 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00000514