Antietam Maryland. Battlefield on the day of battle – Historic Photograph 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 Antietam Maryland. Battlefield on the day of battle. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Antietam Maryland. Battlefield on the day of battle
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Few places in the Civil War have been photographed as often as the fields near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where Union and Confederate armies fought on September 17, 1862. This glass negative shows a stretch of that ground on the day of the battle, a scene that photographers of the period were eager to record. Its sleeve identifies the view as part of the field from that day, and the wet collodion process used to make it required the photographer to coat, expose and develop each plate within minutes. Alexander Gardner, who worked the battlefield that week, was once credited with the image, though the attribution has since been revised.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: View of part of field taken on day of Battle of Antietam Sept. 17 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 × 4,276 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46964 |
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