US Army Heritage and Education Center Unveils Digitized Collection Of Civil War Photos

Posted by admin on Nov 29, 2009

Earlier this month, the Army Heritage and Education Center unveiled a digitized collection of some 23,000 vintage photographs from the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States from the Massachusetts Commandery.

This collection is considered by historians the single best Civil War photograph collection in the world, said Molly Bompane, AHEC’s photo curator. “Not only have we preserved this collection for future generations, we have made it much more accessible to many researchers and enthusiasts around the globe.”

Jack Giblin is director of visitor and education services at AHEC. He said the MOLLUS collection is significant because of its complexity and completeness.

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