Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Unfinished Confederate graves near the center of the battl – Antique 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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A window into the past: Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Unfinished Confederate graves near the center of the battl, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Unfinished Confederate graves near the center of the battl
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A shallow, unfinished grave near the center of the Gettysburg battlefield, captured in July 1863 just after the fighting ended, offers a blunt look at how the dead were handled in the battle's first days. The negative sleeve credits the image to T. H. O'Sullivan, and it was made as a stereograph, with two halves meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. The pictures were made with wet collodion on glass, a process that required the photographer to coat and expose each plate before it dried. Views like this were sold to a public eager to see the war's aftermath up close.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 4 negatives (5 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: [T. H. OSullivan]. Caption from negative sleeve: [Unfinished Confederate grave near the center of battlefield of 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 × 4,726 px · prints to 17 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52690 |
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