Learn about Civil War photography at June 29 Photo Committee meeting

Carol M. Johnson and Helena Zinkham of the Library of Congress will discuss the Library's new photo exhibit, "The Last Full Measure: Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection," and will describe the exhibit's unique photographic processes, at the monthly luncheon meeting of the Club's Photography Committee at noon Wednesday, June 29, in the McClendon Room.

All Club members and their guests are welcome. No reservations are required; however, seating is limited in the McClendon Room.

Johnson, a photography curator in the Library's Prints & Photographs Division, and Zinkham, chief of the division, will illustrate their talk with photos from the exhibit of Civil War Union and Confederate soldiers and some of the soldiers' family members.

The Liljenquist family of McLean, Va., in remembrance of the soldiers, donated its rare collection of more than 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs to the Library. Nearly 400 of these photos are in the exhibit, which are now on display at the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building until August 13, 2011. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Johnson and Zinkham will describe the Civil War photo formats with both real examples and a slideshow. The soldiers' special stories and highlights of other Civil War photograph collections will also be discussed.

The full collection is available online at http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/. The images selected for the exhibition are online at http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/civilwarphotographs/pages/default.aspx.