Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View of breast works on Round Top – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View of breast works on Round Top, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View of breast works on Round Top
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The picture shows the fortifications on Round Top, the wooded hill south of the Gettysburg battlefield, where Union and Confederate soldiers fought in early July 1863. Photographer James F. Gibson made the image in the weeks after the battle, when the field was still littered with the works and debris of the fighting. It survives as a stereograph pair, two side-by-side glass negatives that, viewed through a stereoscope, give the earthworks a sense of depth. The wet collodion process of the period required long exposures, so the scene is still and empty of the soldiers who had dug and defended these lines.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives (3 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: [View of breastworks on Round Top Gettysburg July 1863]. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,961 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52693 |
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