Alexander Gardner Collection

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Volume:

14 black-and-white copy photographs; one copy negative

Views include:

Landscapes along the 35th parallel; military life at Fort Mohave; Mohave Indians; Arizona--1867-68

Biographic Notes:

Photographer, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), a native of Paisely, Scotland, was one of the first of his profession to photograph Northern Arizona and the Mohave Indian tribe.

From 1858-1863 he supervised Matthew Brady's Washington, D.C. photography gallery. After leaving Brady, Gardner became noted for his Civil War photographs and was among those allowed to photograph the hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators.

Gardner was commissioned as photographer with the survey team investigating a proposed route to extend the Union Pacific Railway along the 35th parallel during 1867-1868. In the original portfolio, which Gardner titled, Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, there were 127 photographs. No complete portfolio of this work is known to remain.

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Special Collections and Archives Department
Northern Arizona University