William Pywell
(1843-1887)
William Redish Pywell (June 9, 1843 – 1887) was a 19th-century American photographer. He first worked for Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner making a photographic record of the American Civil War, this work was published by Gardner in 1866 as "Photographic Sketch Book of the War" Vols. 1 & 2. (Washington, DC. Philp & Solomons). After the war, he traveled with George Custer as the official photographer of the 1873 Yellowstone Expedition. He also accompanied Alexander Gardner on the Kansas Expedition.
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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)