This Week in Civil War Photography: January 31-February 6
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Courtesy of Library of Congress
January 31, 1863 Charles J. Tyson purchases a two-story brick dwelling on Chambersburg Street in Gettysburg.
Courtesy of John Richter
February 2, 1897 Civil War photographer Robert Newell dies. Newell published a series of views of Chambersburg, PA after it had been burnt by the Confederates in July 1864. He also published views of the Philadelphia Sanitary Fair.
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February 4, 1902 Civil War photographer George Barnard dies at his daughter's home in Syracuse, NY from "malignant brostatitis."
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