Gettysburg Pa. The cemetery gatehouse – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Gettysburg Pa. The cemetery gatehouse. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gettysburg Pa. The cemetery gatehouse
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The gatehouse at the entrance to the new national cemetery at Gettysburg appears here as a stereograph, two nearly identical views meant to be seen together through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. The cemetery was laid out in 1863 to rebury Union soldiers killed in the battle fought July 1 through 3, and its dedication that November was the occasion for Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Views of the town and battlefield sold widely in the months after the fighting, and this one was once credited to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is now uncertain.
| Created / published | 1863 |
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| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0192 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. 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. Gettysburg Battle of Gettysburg Pa. 1863.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,440 × 1,372 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46781 |
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