Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Slaughter pen on left wing – Vintage 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 Pennsylvania. Slaughter pen on left wing
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The view shows the Slaughter Pen on the Union left wing at Gettysburg, a stretch of ground where some of the battle's heaviest fighting took place in early July 1863. It survives as a stereograph pair, with left and right halves on separate glass plates, along with additional variant views of the same spot. James F. Gibson, born in 1828, made the exposures using the wet collodion process, which required plates to be coated, exposed, and developed on site while still wet. Photographers worked the battlefield in the weeks after the fighting, recording the ground and its aftermath, and these plates are part of the Library of Congress Civil War glass negative collection.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 4 negatives (5 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from Frassanito W.A. Gettysburg A journey in time 1975. Caption from negative sleeve: Slaughter pen on left wing at battle 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 | 5,120 × 4,700 px · prints to 17 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52681 |
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