In the month of May, two key anniversaries that spurred the Civil War into motion occurred between the United States and Mexico over a conflict that centered on Texas. The Mexican-American War ...

Photography and the Red Cross came into existence at about the same time, in the second half of the 1800s. Photographs of war quickly became some of the most disturbing, but also the most ...

a civil war, disease, and everything in between. Surrounded by memories of their lost loved ones, the subject of Spiritualism and especially ‘Spirit Photography' took the late 19th century ...

Fenton was one of the first war photographers and documented the Crimean War. This photo shows cannonballs strewn about on a road show the aftermath of a battle -- but it’s been debated on how ...

"This is actually my prom photo," she says pointing to a picture frame in her tent. "I wore my Civil War gown." Some of the reenactors, all from different units invited to the remembance ...

When you think of tintypes, imagine the old-fashioned photos you often see in museums from the Civil War era. While this type of photography reached its peak popularity in the late 1800s, artist ...

Color photography was first pioneered in the mid-1800s, but the processes for capturing ... That said, when the First World War began in 1914, by comparison to black and white image capture ...

And I mean huge — it was 12-feet high and 1,800-feet long ... segments to one of the first female photographers, Minerva Corwin of Lebanon; Civil War photographers Charles Waldack and Isaac ...