Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Unfit for service. Artillery caisson and dead mule – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Unfit for service. Artillery caisson and dead mule in remarkable detail. 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. Unfit for service. Artillery caisson and dead mule
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A dead mule lies beside an artillery caisson, the detail that gives this view its blunt title, *Unfit for Service*. The picture is a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required photographers to coat, expose, and develop each plate within minutes, often in the field. Gettysburg was fought July 1-3, 1863, and photographers who visited the ground in the weeks afterward recorded the abandoned equipment and dead animals that littered the fields and roads. The negative's sleeve gives the date as July 1862, which conflicts with the battle's date. The library also notes that the attribution to Alexander Gardner, whose team documented the battlefield, is a former one.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Unfit for Service - on the battlefield of Gettysburg. July 1862. 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. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,194 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49378 |
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