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ID: 500115196 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115196			Record Type: Person

Gardner, Alexander (American photographer and printer, 1821-1882, born in Scotland)

Note: In 1856 Mathew B. Brady invited Gardner to move from Scotland to New York City, New York to work for him at his New York gallery. From 1858 to 1863 Gardner ran Brady's Washington, D.C. gallery. At this time Gardner was using electric light to photograph. In 1863, Gardner left Brady's firm and decided to photograph the Civil War by himself. He photographed Abraham Lincoln at the Battle of Antietam. He also became the official photographer of the army of the Potomac. In 1863 Gardner opened his own studio in Washington, D.C. where he sold mainly stereographs. In 1865 Gardner did the reportage on Lincoln's assasination and funeral. In 1866 Gardner published "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War". In 1867 he closed his Wahington studio and became the official photograher of the Union Pacific Railroad's Eastern Division. He photographed the construction of the railway to California, including the networks of Kansas, West Mississippi, and Missouri. During this time he also made portraits of American and Peruvian Indians. In 1868 he photographed the Fort Laramie Treaty Council. Gardner returned to Washington, D.C. in the 1870s where he operated a studio and photographed members of the Indian Treaty delegations.

Names:
	Gardner, Alexander (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Gardner, Alexander (Dutch-P,NA)
	Alexander Gardner (V,display)
	Gardner, Alex. (V)
	Gardner, A. (U)
	גרדנר, אלכסנדר (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
	Gardiner, Alexander (U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	Scottish (Scots, Scotsman)
	British (modern)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	photographer
	printer

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Glasgow (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Events:

active:

1858-1882 Washington (DC, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

employee of ....	Brady, Mathew B. from 1856 to 1863
....................	(American photographer, 1823-1896) [500126201]

employee was ....	Fowx, Egbert Guy
......................	(American photographer, born 1821 or 1825, died after 1883 ) [500037011]

employee was ....	Pywell, William R. from ca. 1862 to the 1870s
......................	(American photographer, born 1843 or 1844, died 1887) [500036928]

sibling of ....	Gardner, James
..................	(American and Scottish photographer, born 1832) [500040839]

List/Hierarchical Position:

....

Persons, Artists

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Gardner, Alexander (I)

Biographies:

(American photographer and printer, 1821-1882, born in Scotland) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American photographer, 1821-1882) ..... [BHA]
(American and Scottish photographer; born Paisley (Scotland, United Kingdom), 1821; died Washington (D.C.) (United States), 1882) ..... [CCA]
(American (b. Scotland, UK), 1821-1882) ..... [JPGM]
(American photographer, 1821-1882) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1821-1882) ..... [GRL]
(American artist, born Scotland. 1821-1882) ..... [MoMA]
(Scottish (Scots, Scotsman) photographer, 1821-1882) ..... [IMJ]
(Scottish photographer, 1821-1882) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

גרדנר, אלכסנדר ........	[IMJ]
............................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Alexander Gardner ........	[CCA, MoMA, VP]
....................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
....................................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................................	J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Gardiner, Alexander ........	[RKD]
........................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 379324

Gardner, A. ........	[GRL]
........................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79060231

Gardner, Alex. ........	[CCA, GRL]
..............................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
..............................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79060231

Gardner, Alexander ........	[BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, JPGM Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
......................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
......................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
......................................	J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
......................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79060231
......................................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
......................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 379324


Note:
English	..........	[CCA]
	..........	Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
	..........	Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
	..........	Gardner, Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (1959)
	..........	Sandweiss, Nineteenth-Century Photography in America (1991)

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