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Monday, April 2, 2012

Cooperstown museum unveils Civil War exhibit

From Wall Street Journal: Cooperstown museum unveils Civil War exhibit
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — An upstate New York museum is unveiling a new exhibit of photographic images of the Civil War.

The exhibit is entitled "Between the States: Photographs of the American Civil War." It opens Saturday at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown and runs through May 13.

The 120 images in the exhibit represent a selection of well-known Civil War pictures taken by photographers including Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner.

The photos capture some of the war's battlefields, fortresses and historic figures, including Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and John Brown.

The exhibit was organized by the George Eastman House in Rochester.

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