[CIVIL WAR]. COOLEY, Sam A., and PEASE, N.W., photographers. A group of 2 stereoviews incl. a ship scene and a group of young women representing the "White Mountain rangers."
Sale 1046 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann
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[CIVIL WAR]. COOLEY, Sam A., and PEASE, N.W., photographers. A group of 2 stereoviews incl. a ship scene and a group of young women representing the "White Mountain rangers."
5 1/4 x 3 in., or smaller, on cardstock mounts (occasional spotting, some surface soiling; edge and corner wear to mount).
Views include: Outdoor group portrait of the White Mountain rangers, comprised of 20 young women kneeling and standing in formation, holding long pointed sticks or spears, forming a unit of "home guards." Although uncredited, the image is attributed to N.W. Pease. -- Barkatine [sic] Lamplighter, Beaufort, S.C. (period pencil inscribed title to verso). With Cooley's Tenth Army Corps photographer paper label imprint affixed to the mount verso.
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At the outbreak of the Civil War Samuel Cooley operated a photography studio in Beaufort, SC. When that city was captured by Federal forces during the Battle of Port Royal, Cooley began taking images of the War, becoming the the U.S. Army's official photographer of the X (Tenth) Corps, and later stying himself as, "Official Photographer of the Department of the South. "
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