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PA-Gettysburg-Camp-July-1 – Antique Wall Art

PA-Gettysburg-Camp-July-1 — historic image
PA-Gettysburg-Camp-July-1. Historic image from the Gettysburg collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of PA-Gettysburg-Camp-July-1. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Labeled as a camp scene dated July 1, this view points to Gettysburg's long life as a place of encampments rather than to the fighting itself. The town and surrounding fields saw the battle in early July 1863, and in the decades afterward veterans and visitors returned, with tent camps and reunions becoming part of the place's routine. The record gives only the location and date, so the tents, figures, and setting are worth studying for clues about how the grounds were used and remembered.

Original scan2,100 × 313 px · prints to 7 × 1 in at 300 dpi
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