Headquarters Christian Commission in the Field

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Artist: James Gardner / American, born Scotland, 1832–after 1865
Date: September 1863
Medium: Albumen print, pl. 53 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 17.7 × 22.9 cm (7 × 9 1/16 in.); Album page: 31.1 × 44.7 cm (12 1/4 × 17 5/8 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: photograph
Style: 19th century
Place: United States
Department: Photography and Media
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Everett Kovler
Accession no.: 1967.330.53

Meeting of the Shenandoah and Potomac at Harper's Ferry
James Gardner
July 1865 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008101
Battery A, Fourth U.S. Artillery, Robertson's Brigade
James Gardner
February 1864 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008109
Ruins of Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia
James Gardner
December 1864 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008125
Dunker Church, Battle-Field of Antietam, Maryland
James Gardner
July 1863 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008137

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.