Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View of breastworks on Round Top – 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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A window into the past: Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View of breastworks on Round Top, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View of breastworks on Round Top
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Few spots on the Gettysburg field saw as much fighting as Round Top, the hill south of town where Union soldiers dug in during the early days of July 1863. This view shows the breastworks they left behind, defenses still standing as the battlefield was being cleared. The glass negative was made with the wet collodion process, which required photographers to coat and expose plates on site, and the caption on its sleeve dates the scene to July 1863. The negative was once credited to Alexander Gardner, whose studio documented the battlefield, but that attribution has since been revised.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: View of breast works on Round Top Gettysburg. July 1863. 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 × 2,128 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49381 |
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