Description

The Photographic Album
By
Frances Pleasants

Step back in time and behold the treasured memories of the Civil War era with The Photographic Album by Frances Pleasants. The album is a time machine that will transport you back to the Civil War era so that you can relive its precious memories. This fascinating book, first published in the early 1900s, features a collection of moving photos that perfectly encapsulate the spirit of a bygone period. Readers are taken to the battlefields, into the homes, and into the faces of those who lived through this pivotal time in American history through the use of photography. Explore the inspiring photographs that depict the bravery, sacrifice, and resiliency of the men and women who lived through the Civil War and immerse yourself in the visual narrative of this turbulent period in American history. Learn about the struggles and accomplishments that helped mold a nation into what it is today. Frances Pleasants, a teacher at the Army Hospital in Germantown, Pennsylvania, for Civil War injured, kept a unique photo album of her students. They gave it to her as a gift and it has pictures of her patients in it as well as pictures from the Civil War.

Albumen cartes-de-visite, tintypes, and newspaper articles are all included in the album.
Robert L. Pitfield, Frances Pleasants’ son, gave this to the museum.

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at the National Museum of Health and Medicine deserves the credit.

If there are gaps in the sequence of images, it means that the corresponding pages in the album were not scanned.