Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Confederate dead view looking toward the orchard on the Ro – Historic 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. Confederate dead view looking toward the orchard on the Ro. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Confederate dead view looking toward the orchard on the Ro
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Dead Confederate soldiers lie in the open ground of the Gettysburg battlefield, with an orchard visible beyond them, a view that was rare for the public to see at the time. The image was made in July 1863, just after the battle, when photographers working for the Gardner studio, including James F. Gibson, went over the field to document it. Because it survives as a stereograph pair of two wet collodion glass negatives, it was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, giving the scene a sense of depth. Its unflinching record of the dead helped shape how Northern audiences understood the cost of the fighting.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title and exact date from Frassanito W.A. Gettysburg: A journey in time 1975. Caption from negative sleeve: Confederate dead on the 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 | 1,463 × 1,456 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52697 |
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