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This presentation explores several notable examples of New Jersey’s Civil War Era photographers.
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The Civil War boosted the photographic trade in New Jersey as both soldiers and families demanded more images of loved ones. Numerous new photo galleries opened to meet the demand. Some New Jersey photographers operated elsewhere during the war, including in the South. Other photographers active at the war front settled in the state after the war. Some New Jersey soldiers returned home and only then began photography careers.
Gary D. Saretzky, archivist and photographer, has worked as an archivist for more than fifty years at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Educational Testing Service, and the Monmouth County Archives, where he was County Archivist, 1994-2019. Saretzky taught the history of photography at Mercer County Community College, 1977-2012, and served as coordinator of the Public History Internship Program for the Rutgers University History Department, 1994-2016. He has published more than 100 articles and reviews on the history of photography, photographic conservation, and other topics, including “Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographers,” in the journal, New Jersey History, Fall/Winter 2004.
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