Finding aid for the Samuel A. Cooley Photographs


Repository: Western Reserve Historical Society
Creator: Cooley, Samuel A.
Title: Samuel A. Cooley Photographs
Dates: 1862-1865
Extent: 2.90 linear feet (13 containers)
Abstract: Samuel A. Cooley, a resident of Beaufort, South Carolina, was an entrepreneur, photographer, and merchant. The collection consists of views taken by Samuel A. Cooley in the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina, and in Jacksonville, Florida, during the American Civil War. The photographs depict daily life in the region during Federal occupation of the Sea Islands and the commercial blockade and siege of Charleston and Savannah. Cooley worked with stereographic cameras, but the negatives were later separated and processed as individual prints. Included are views of institutions, churches, residences, landscapes, hospitals, and military personnel and equipment.
PG Number PG 325
Location: closed stacks
Language: The records are in English

Scope and Content

The Samuel A. Cooley Photographs, 1862-1865, consist of views taken by Samuel A. Cooley in the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina, and in Jacksonville, Florida, during the American Civil War. The photographs depict daily life in the region during Federal occupation of the Sea Islands and the commercial blockade and siege of Charleston and Savannah. Cooley worked with stereographic cameras, but the negatives were later separated and processed as individual prints. Included are views of institutions, churches, residences, landscapes, hospitals, and military personnel and equipment. The collection includes 389 black and white photographs and negatives of varying sizes.

This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of the American Civil War, particularly the Union occupation of the Seal Islands and the blockade and siege of Charleston and Savannah.


Statement of Arrangement

The collection is arranged in four series.
Series I: Numbered Prints is arranged sequentially by print number.
Series II: Subject Prints is arranged in seven sub-series. Each sub-series is arranged by subject.
Sub-series A: Civilian Portraits
Sub-series B: Army Portraits
Sub-series C: Navy Portraits
Sub-series D: Civilian Views by Locale
Sub-series E: Military Views by Locale
Sub-series F: Military Views by Subject
Sub-series G: Naval Views
Series III: Duplicate Prints is arranged sequentially by print number.
Series IV: Glass Negatives is arranged sequentially by print number.

Restrictions on Access

None.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects:

Beaufort (S.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs.
Cooley, Sam A. (Samuel A.) -- Photograph collections.
Florida -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs.
Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs.
Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs.
Sea Islands -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs.
South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations -- Photographs.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs.

Preferred Citation

[Container ___, Folder ___ ] PG 325 Samuel A. Cooley Photographs, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Acquisition Information

These photographs were purchased by William Pendleton Palmer and gifted to the Western Reserve Historical Society by him.

Detailed Description of The Collection

Series I: Numbered Prints 1862-1865

Box Folder
1 1 701 - Quartermaster J. H. Moore's headquarters ca. 1862-1865
1 1 702 - United States cemetery ca. 1862-1865
1 1 703 - Provost Marshal office ca. 1862-1865
1 1 704 - Catholic church ca. 1862-1865
1 1 705 - Medical director's house ca. 1862-1865
1 1 706 - Hascal Rhett's house ca. 1862-1865
1 2 707 - Northern school teachers (Gideonites) ca. 1862-1865
1 2 708 - Cooley's headquarters ca. 1862-1865
1 2 709 - Officer's hospital ca. 1862-1865
1 2 710 - Hospital No. 11 ca. 1862-1865
1 2 711 - Hospital No. 23 ca. 1862-1865
1 2 712 - Tyler's Store, front view ca. 1862-1865
1 3 713 - Beaufort, from river ca. 1862-1865
1 3 714 - Hospital ca. 1862-1865
1 3 715 - Officers' Hospital ca. 1862-1865
1 3 716 - Hospital No. 3 ca. 1862-1865
1 3 717 - Port Royal, S. C. Smith's plantation, alligator pond ca. 1862-1865
1 3 718 - Cedar and Cypress Swamp Ladies Island ca. 1862-1865
1 4 719 - Smith's plantation, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 4 720 - Swamp, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 4 721 - Provo' Court House ca. 1862-1865
1 4 722 - Smith's plantation house, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 4 723 - Beaufort Club House (same as image 734) ca. 1862-1865
1 5 724 - Beaufort arsenal ca. 1862-1865
1 5 725 - Arsenal Street ca. 1862-1865
1 5 726 - Arsenal Yard ca. 1862-1865
1 5 727 - State Arsenal ca. 1862-1865
1 5 728 - Rhett's house, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 5 729 - Headquarters of General Howard and staff ca. 1862-1865
1 6 730 - Avenue of live oak, Port Royal Island, leading to Barnwell's plantation ca. 1862-1865
1 6 731 - Beaufort Hotel ca. 1862-1865
1 6 732 - Bay Street, west side ca. 1862-1865
1 6 733 - Army bakers ca. 1862-1865
1 6 734 - Club House (same as image 723) ca. 1862-1865
1 6 735 - Bay Street, east side ca. 1862-1865
1 7 736 - Officer's hospital ca. 1862-1865
1 7 737 - Myrtle Bush Plantation, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 7 738 - Lewis Sam House, General Saxton's headquarters, Officers' hospital ca. 1862-1865
1 7 739 - Forage House ca. 1862-1865
1 7 740 - Medical store house ca. 1862-1865
1 7 741 - Episcopal church, prison for Confederates and hospital ca. 1862-1865
1 8 742 - Smith's plantation, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 8 743 - Smith's plantation, Port Royal Island, garden in dry alligator pond ca. 1862-1865
1 8 744 - Smith's plantation, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 8 745 - Tyler's Store, side view ca. 1862-1865
1 8 746 - Saxton's headquarters ca. 1862-1865
1 8 747 - Post office, express office, Beaufort Hotel ca. 1862-1865
1 9 748 - Issuing rations to freed men ca. 1862-1865
1 9 749 - Richard Habersham's plantation, Walnut Hill, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 9 750 - Dr. John A. Johnson house/hospital ca. 1862-1865
1 9 751 - Beaufort, street view ca. 1862-1865
1 9 752 - 1st United States Colored Artillery ca. 1862-1865
1 9 753 - Sherman's Army Wagons ca. 1862-1865
1 10 754 - Cooley and staff ca. 1862-1865
1 10 755 - Hospital ca. 1862-1865
1 10 756 - New Castle Street, in front of Episcopal church ca. 1862-1865
1 10 757 - Dr. Lewis de Saussure's house, Surgeon Durants' headquarters ca. 1862-1865
1 10 758 - Sanitary Commission ca. 1862-1865
1 10 759 - Hospital, 56th New York ca. 1862-1865
1 11 760 - Former orphan asylum for whites ca. 1862-1865
1 11 761 - Hospital No. 5 ca. 1862-1865
1 11 762 - Smith's plantation, Negro chapel, live oak grove, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 11 763 - Contraband hospital ca. 1862-1865
1 11 764 - Thomas Rhett's house, Post surgeon's headquarters ca. 1862-1865
1 11 765 - Miss Sarah Barnwell's house, Paymaster's headquarters ca. 1862-1865
1 12 766 - Hospital No. 16 ca. 1862-1865
1 12 767 - Officers' hospital ca. 1862-1865
1 12 768 - Road to Smith's plantation, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 12 769 - Richard Habersham's house, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 12 770 - Officers' Hospital No. 7 ca. 1862-1865
1 12 771 - Camp, 7th Connecticut ca. 1862-1865
1 13 772 - Hospital No. 4 ca. 1862-1865
1 13 773 - Hospital No. 3 ca. 1862-1865
1 13 774 - James Rhett's house ca. 1862-1865
1 13 775 - Dr. Henry Fuller's house, Rev. M. French, post chaplain ca. 1862-1865
1 13 776 - John Smith's house ca. 1862-1865
1 13 777 - Bay Street ca. 1862-1865
1 14 778 - Myrtle Bush plantation, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 14 779 - Episcopal Sunday School ca. 1862-1865
1 14 780 - Nathanial Heywood's house, bath house ca. 1862-1865
1 14 781 - Dr. J. Johnson's house ca. 1862-1865
1 14 782 - Dr. A. S. Gibb's house ca. 1862-1865
1 14 783 - John Baker's house ca. 1862-1865
1 15 784 - Edmund Rhett's house ca. 1862-1865
1 15 785 - Quartermaster's depot ca. 1862-1865
1 15 786 - United States artillery ca. 1862-1865
1 15 787 - Walker plantation, Port Royal Island ca. 1862-1865
1 15 788 - Commissary Building 1865
1 16 901 - Gunner U. S. S. New Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
1 16 902 - Engine room, Stmr. Fulton ca. 1862-1865
1 16 903 - Stmr. Nelllie Baker ca. 1862-1865
1 16 904 - Qr. Mr. U. S. S. Vermont ca. 1862-1865
1 16 905 - Gunner U. S. S. Vermont ca. 1862-1865
1 16 906 - Master at Arms U. S. S. New Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
1 17 907 - Boatswain's mate, U. S. S. New Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
1 17 908 - Probably gunner, U. S. S. New Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
1 17 909 - Gun deck, U. S. S. New Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
1 17 910 - Deck of Monitor Montauk ca. 1862-1865
1 17 911 - Master at Arms, U. S. S. New Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
1 17 912 - Signal officer, U. S. S. New Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
1 18 913 - U. S. S. Fulton (?), gun deck ca. 1862-1865
1 18 914 - Purser McManus, steamer Fulton ca. 1862-1865
1 18 915 - Salt water condenser and coal dock, Beaufort ca. 1862-1865
1 18 916 and 917 - Mate Jones, steamer Fulton ca. 1862-1865
1 18 918 - U. S. S. New Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
1 19 919 - Headquarters, Marines, Bay Point ca. 1862-1865
1 19 920 - Chief Engineer's headquarters, Bay Point ca. 1862-1865
1 19 921 - Turrets of first style Monitors ca. 1862-1865
1 19 922 - Machine shop, Bay Point ca. 1862-1865
1 19 923 - Naval machine shop, Bay Point ca. 1862-1865
1 19 924 - Machine Shop, Bay Point ca. 1862-1865
1 20 925 - Deck of Arago ca. 1862-1865
1 20 926 - Gunner U. S. S. New Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
1 20 927 - Quarter deck, U. S. S. Vermont, signaling ca. 1862-1865
1 20 928 - Steward and head cook, steamer Fulton ca. 1862-1865
1 20 929 - The Truth Seeker (gun) ca. 1862-1865
1 20 930 - Deck (Monitor) Montauk ca. 1862-1865
1 21 931 - Paymaster, U. S. S. New Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
1 21 932 - Steamer Fulton, deck ca. 1862-1865
1 21 933 - Ladies cabin, Steamer Ben Deford, Captain Hallett ca. 1862-1865
1 21 934 - Gun deck, U. S. S. Vermont ca. 1862-1865
1 21 935 - Deck of Patapsco ca. 1862-1865
1 21 936 - Officer of the Deck, U. S. S. Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
1 22 1001 - Jacksonville Garden ca. 1862-1865
1 22 1002 - Methodist church, Jacksonville, Florida ca. 1862-1865
1 22 1003 - Jacksonville, Florida ca. 1862-1865
1 22 1004 - Jacksonville, street view, Rebel rifle pits in the distance ca. 1862-1865
1 22 1005 - View of St. John River, above Jacksonville ca. 1862-1865
1 22 1006 - Jacksonville market ca. 1862-1865
1 23 1007 - Jacksonville Provo's Confederate headquarters ca. 1862-1865
1 23 1008 - Jacksonville, Florida, Com. and arsenal of Confederates ca. 1862-1865
1 23 1009 - Freedmen's School, Edisto ca. 1862-1865
1 23 1010 - Jacksonville camp in - after Olustee ca. 1862-1865
1 23 1011 - Jacksonville, street view ca. 1862-1865
1 23 1012 - Jacksonville, Reading Room ca. 1862-1865
1 24 1013 - Jacksonville, orange trees ca. 1862-1865
1 24 1014 and 1015 - Jacksonville, street view ca. 1862-1865
1 24 1016 - Jacksonville, Judge Burrett's orange arbor ca. 1862-1865
1 24 1017 - Date palm, St. Augustine ca. 1862-1865
1 24 1018 - Run St. Augustine ca. 1862-1865
1 25 1019 - St. Augustine, oldest graveyard, Captain Dade ca. 1862-1865
1 25 1020 - St. Augustine, date palm ca. 1862-1865
1 25 1021 - St. Augustine, a garden ca. 1862-1865
1 25 1022 - St. Augustine, orange trees ca. 1862-1865
1 25 1023 - St. Augustine, sea wall, Fort Marion in distance ca. 1862-1865
1 25 1024 - St. Augustine, St. George Street, looking from city gates ca. 1862-1865
1 26 1025 - St. Augustine, nunnery, St. Mary's Convent ca. 1862-1865
1 26 1026 - General Finnegan's house, Fernandina ca. 1862-1865
1 26 1027 - Planters house, Fernandina ca. 1862-1865
1 26 1028 - General Gillmore (standing) ca. 1862-1865
1 26 1029 - Fort McAllister ca. 1862-1865
1 26 1030 - Cotton gin, Edisto Island, South Carolina ca. 1862-1865
1 27 1031 - Major Wood, paymaster, Beaufort ca. 1862-1865
1 27 1032 - Beaufort Hotel ca. 1862-1865
1 27 1033 - Captain Hallett, U. S. S. Ben Deford ca. 1862-1865
1 27 1034 - W. L. Crane, correspondent for Frank Leslie's ca. 1862-1865
1 27 1035 - Mrs. General Saxton ca. 1862-1865
1 27 1036 - Samuel A. Cooley, photographer ca. 1862-1865
1 28 1037 - John A. Stinson, Superintendent Adams Express, Beaufort ca. 1862-1865
1 28 1038 - Captain L. L. Langdon, United States Artillery ca. 1862-1865
1 28 1040 - Wharf at Hilton Head ca. 1862-1865
1 28 1041 - Port Royal House, Hilton Head ca. 1862-1865
1 28 1042 - Cooley's Gallery ca. 1862-1865
1 28 1043 - Fort Marion and moat ca. 1862-1865
1 29 1044 - Captain Woodhull, Star of the South ca. 1862-1865
1 29 1045 - Palmetto grove, Folly Island ca. 1862-1865
1 29 1046 - Beacon House, Morris Island ca. 1862-1865
1 29 1047 - Captain John L. Chatfield, 6th Connecticut ca. 1862-1865
1 29 1048 and 1049 - Masonic Lodge, Folly Island ca. 1862-1865
1 30 1050 - Captain Ned Baldwin, U. S. S. Resolute ca. 1862-1865
1 30 1051 - Provo' Marshal General Hall's quarters, Morris Island ca. 1862-1865
1 30 1052 - Carpenter Shop, Morris Island ca. 1862-1865
1 30 1053 - Mortar battery, Mid Island near Fort Pulaski ca. 1862-1865
1 30 1054 - Commissary headquarters, Morris Island ca. 1862-1865
1 30 1055 - Executive Officer, U. S. S. New Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
1 31 1056 - Engineer Camp near Old Fort ca. 1862-1865
1 31 1057 - Headquarters, James Island 1862
1 31 1058 - Ordnance yard, Hilton Head ca. 1862-1865

Series II: Subject Prints 1862-1865

Sub-series A: Civilian Portraits 1862-1865

Box Folder
1 32 Samuel Cooley and staff, posing with camera and photography wagon and in Beaufort; field hands picking crops; and Mrs. General Sexton ca. 1862-1865
1 33 Unidentified women ca. 1862-1865

Sub-series B: Army Portraits 1864

Box Folder
1 34 General William T. Sherman and staff in the trenches before Atlanta 1864

Sub-series C: Navy Portraits 1862-1865

Box Folder
1 35 Captain Walker, Steamer Fulton; and unidentified naval officer ca. 1862-1865

Sub-series D: Civilian Views by Locale 1862-1865

Box Folder
2 36 Savannah, Georgia residences ca. 1862-1865
2 37 Jacksonville, Florida, Presbyterian church ca. 1862-1865
2 38 Jacksonville, Florida, Bay Street ca. 1862-1865
2 39 St. Augustine, Florida, city gates ca. 1862-1865
2 40 Beaufort, South Carolina, businesses ca. 1862-1865
2 41 Beaufort, South Carolina, churches ca. 1862-1865
2 42 Beaufort, South Carolina, hospitals and institutions ca. 1862-1865
2 43 Beaufort, South Carolina, residences ca. 1862-1865
2 44 Beaufort, South Carolina, streets ca. 1862-1865
2 45 Port Royal, South Carolina, forest and swamps ca. 1862-1865
2 46 Port Royal, South Carolina, residences ca. 1862-1865
2 47 Port Royal, South Carolina, streets and roads ca. 1862-1865
2 48 Appomattox, Virginia, forests and swamps ca. 1862-1865
2 49 Unidentified buildings ca. 1862-1865
2 50 Unidentified businesses ca. 1862-1865
2 51 Unidentified cemeteries ca. 1862-1865
2 52 Unidentified churches ca. 1862-1865
2 53 Unidentified cotton wharf ca. 1862-1865
2 54 Unidentified forest and swamps ca. 1862-1865
2 55 Unidentified hospitals ca. 1862-1865
2 56 Unidentified railroad station ca. 1862-1865
2 57 Unidentified residences ca. 1862-1865
2 58 Unidentified ruins ca. 1862-1865
2 59 Unidentified streets ca. 1862-1865

Sub-series E: Military Views by Locale 1862-1865

Box Folder
2 60 Fort McAllister, Georgia ca. 1862-1865
2 61 Fort Pulaski, Georgia ca. 1862-1865
2 62 Fort Fisher, North Carolina ca. 1862-1865
2 63 Beaufort, South Carolina ca. 1862-1865
2 64 Charleston, South Carolina ca. 1862-1865
2 65 Folly Island, South Carolina ca. 1862-1865
2 66 Fort Sumpter, South Carolina ca. 1862-1865
2 67 Fort Wagner, South Carolina ca. 1862-1865
2 68 Morris Island, South Carolina, camps ca. 1862-1865
2 69 Morris Island, South Carolina, fortifications ca. 1862-1865
2 70 Port Royal Island, South Carolina, camps ca. 1862-1865
Box Folder
3 71 Port Royal Island, South Carolina, Fort Smith ca. 1862-1865
3 72 Redoubt Zabriskie, South Carolina ca. 1862-1865
3 73 Dutch Gap, Virginia ca. 1862-1865
3 74 James River, Virginia ca. 1862-1865
3 75 Yorktown, Virginia ca. 1862-1865
3 76 Unidentified camps ca. 1862-1865
3 77 Unidentified fortifications ca. 1862-1865
3 78 Unidentified monuments ca. 1862-1865

Sub-series F: Military Views by Subject 1862-1865

Box Folder
3 79 Artillery and ordnance ca. 1862-1865
3 80 Casualties ca. 1862-1865
3 81 Jail or stockade ca. 1862-1865

Sub-series G: Naval Views 1862-1865

Box Folder
3 82 Delaware, saloon ca. 1862-1865
3 83 Confederate torpedo boat ca. 1862-1865
3 84 Federal monitors, unidentified ca. 1862-1865
3 85 Steamer Fulton ca. 1862-1865
3 86 Steamer New York ca. 1862-1865
3 87 Steamers, unidentified ca. 1862-1865
3 88 U. S. S. New Hampshire ca. 1862-1865
3 89 U. S. S. Passaic ca. 1862-1865

Series III: Duplicate Prints 1862-1865

Box Folder
4 90 Prints 701 - 705 ca. 1862-1865
4 91 Prints 716 - 730 ca. 1862-1865
4 92 Prints 731 - 748 ca. 1862-1865
4 93 Prints 749 - 759 ca. 1862-1865
4 94 Prints 761 - 776 ca. 1862-1865
4 95 Prints 777 - 1057 ca. 1862-1865

Series IV: Glass Negatives 1862-1865

Box
5 Prints 701 - 726 ca. 1862-1865
Box
6 Prints 727 - 752 ca. 1862-1865
Box
7 Prints 753 - 779 ca. 1862-1865
Box
8 Prints 780 - 915 ca. 1862-1865
Box
9 Prints 916 - 1004 ca. 1862-1865
Box
10 Prints 1005 - 1030 ca. 1862-1865
Box
11 Prints 1031 - 1053 ca. 1862-1865
Box
12 Prints 1054 - 1056 and miscellaneous from Series II ca. 1862-1865
Box
13 Miscellaneous from Series II ca. 1862-1865