Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co.

Originally published September 2023 · pp. 22

Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. Civil War researchers have become familiar with famed wartime photographer Mathew Brady, but the names Edward and Henry T. Anthony may not immediately flash one’s camera. The Anthony brothers started a business photographing and publishing cartes-de-visite and stereographic views in 1847. Their success enabled the pair to fund the efforts of Brady as he worked to train and send out teams of photographers to capture images from various Civil War battlefields. Later in life, Brady gave the Anthony’s duplicates of his photographs; the brothers produced an album containing select views in 1865. Researchers can view many of these images online thanks to the Getty Museum. Begin your quest at https://www.getty.edu/art/ collection/group/103KPP. Users can search through the 1,144 images using keywords. As one example, a search of ‘Atlanta’ netted several results, including the scene along Marietta Street shown right. A query from Sharpsburg, Maryland, yielded results, bottom of page. While using the Getty site, check out a helpful search tool: Union List of Artist Names, accessible at https://www.getty. edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ ulan/. Good luck in researching the American Civil War!

One of the sterographic images in the Getty collection.

Michael K. Shaffer is a Civil War historian, author, lecturer, and instructor who remains a member of the Society of Civil War Historians, Historians of the Civil War Western Theater, and the Georgia Association of Historians. Readers may contact him at [email protected] or request speaking engagements at www.civilwarhistorian. net. Follow Michael on Facebook, www.facebook.com/ michael.k.shaffer, and Twitter @ michaelkshaffer.