Elk Mountain Maryland. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield – Vintage 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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Elk Mountain Maryland. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Elk Mountain Maryland. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield
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A signal tower on Elk Mountain in Maryland is the particular subject here, a structure set on high ground overlooking the Antietam battlefield. Signal stations like this one let Union officers relay messages by flag and lamp over long distances, so a post on a height could watch troop movements that were hidden from the ground. The glass negative dates to 1862, the year of the Antietam campaign, and belongs to the Library of Congress's Civil War glass negative collection. The record notes that the picture was once credited to Alexander Gardner, who photographed the battlefield that year, though that attribution has since been revised.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Signal tower on Elk Mountain near Antietam Md. 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 | 4,145 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48430 |
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