James F. Gibson

(1828/29–?)

    Projects

    Pontoon Bridge, Across the Rappahannock, May, 1863; Photo by Timothy H. O'Sullivan
    Photographic Sketchbook of the War

    A visual chronicle of the Civil War, created through the collaborative efforts of eleven photographers to preserve pivotal moments of 19th-century American history.

    Books

    Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War

    (Dover Publications, 1959)

    Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the American Civil War 1861-1865

    (Delano Greenidge Editions, 2002)

    Elevate the Masses: Alexander Gardner, Photography, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America

    (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020)