Gettysburg Camp, 50th Anniversary, Pennsylvania, 1913 – Antique Photo 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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Gettysburg Camp, 50th Anniversary, Pennsylvania, 1913 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Gettysburg Camp, 50th Anniversary, July, 1913
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Gettysburg Camp, 50th Anniversary, Pennsylvania, 1913
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July 1913 was a small farming and college town of about 4,000 people, known nationally for the battle fought on its fields fifty years earlier. For the semicentennial, Congress and the state helped bring tens of thousands of Union and Confederate veterans to the battlefield, and tent camps like this one sheltered many of them on the fields around town. Local hotels, boarding houses, and farmhouses took in visitors, and the railroads carried crowds in and out during the reunion week. The most remembered moment came on July 4, when President Woodrow Wilson addressed the veterans, a gesture widely read as a step toward national reconciliation. For local residents, the event was both a commemoration and a test of how far a town of their size could feed and house a crowd many times its population.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Creator | edwards, frank |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 823 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Gettysburg Camp, 50th Anniversary, July, 1913 |
| Reference | PA Gettysburg Camp, 50th Anniversary, 1913 |
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