Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View from Culps hill – Vintage 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. View from Culps hill, 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 from Culps hill
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Taken in 1862, this view looks out from Culp's Hill over Gettysburg, a year before the town became the scene of the great battle of July 1863. The sleeve's handwritten caption reads "Culpeper Hill," though the rise is known as Culp's Hill. The glass negative was made by the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat and expose the plate before it dried. The picture was once credited to Alexander Gardner, but that attribution is no longer considered certain. Today the quiet fields and town roofs show the ground before the fighting that made Culp's Hill famous.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Gettysburg PA. View from Culpr [?] Culpeper Hill. 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 × 4,145 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49379 |
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