Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Camp of Captain John J. Hoff – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Camp of Captain John J. Hoff. 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. Camp of Captain John J. Hoff
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In July 1865, three months after Lee's surrender at Appomattox effectively ended the major fighting, a camp near Gettysburg was still home to Union troops awaiting discharge. The record gives the officer's name as Hoff in the title but Huff on the negative sleeve, so the captain's identity is worth checking against military rosters. The negative was made by the wet collodion process, which required a glass plate to be coated, exposed, and developed while still moist. It was once credited to Alexander Gardner, but that attribution has been revised, so the photographer is not settled.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name attribution from Civil War caption books. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Camp of Capt. Huff Gettysburg Pa. July 1865. 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 × 4,134 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49345 |
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