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FITZGERALD, DAVID; GREELY, ADOLPHUS WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES. WAR DEPT. LIBRARY). List of the Photographs and Photographic Negatives Relating to the War for the Union, now in the War Department Library ... (Subject Catalogue No. 5).
Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1897. 219 pp. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Rear wrapped missing, font wrapper detached with two large and two smaller chips not affecting text and remounted on white paper, paper spine covering gone, a few small chips to rear leaves. interior quite tight and clean; slips into cardboard cover with photoreproduction of front wrapper. ¶ Once part of the War Department Library and cataloged and published as List of the Photographs and Photographic Negatives Relating to the War for the Union (War Department Subject Catalogue No. 5, 1897, the records include photographs from the Matthew B. Brady collection, purchased for $27,840 by the War Department in 1874 and 1875, photographs from the Quartermaster's Department of the Corps of Engineers, and photographs private citizens donated to the War Department. The pictures are now in the Still Picture Branch of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Uncommon.
Offered for US$ 100.00 by: Kaaterskill Books - Book number: 23744
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