Gettysburg Pa. Headquarters of Gen. Robert E. Lee on the Chambersburg Pike – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Gettysburg Pa. Headquarters of Gen. Robert E. Lee on the Chambersburg Pike, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gettysburg Pa. Headquarters of Gen. Robert E. Lee on the Chambersburg Pike
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Few pictures on this board show the Chambersburg Pike itself, the road Lee's army used to approach Gettysburg from the west, and this stereograph records a spot tied to the commander's presence there in 1863. Made as a pair of glass plates using the wet collodion process, the image preserves the look of the battlefield town in the months after the fighting of early July. Its catalog record credits the work to a photographer, Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is listed as a former one, so the maker's identity remains open to question. Visitors comparing it with other Gettysburg views will find that stereographs like this were made to be seen through a viewer, which gives the scene a depth that flat prints do not.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0189 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Gettysburg Battle of Gettysburg Pa. 1863. Lee Robert E.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,350 × 1,370 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46779 |
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