Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Line of breastworks looking eastward – Antique Wall Art
(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. Line of breastworks looking eastward in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Line of breastworks looking eastward
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Few pictures from Gettysburg show the field's earthworks as directly as this one, with a line of breastworks running off toward the east. James F. Gibson made it in July 1863, within days of the fighting, while the fortifications that soldiers had dug and piled up were still in place. Because it was taken as a stereograph, two glass negatives recorded slightly different angles, so that when the pair was viewed together the earthworks appeared to stand out in three dimensions. Gibson was one of the photographers who came to the battlefield soon after the battle, when the ground was still marked by the lines troops had defended.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: Jas. F. Gibson Jas. F. Gibson. Caption from negative sleeve: Line of Breastworks looking eastward on 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 × 4,053 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52687 |
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