The battle of Antietam, Md. Sept. 17th 1862 – Vintage Print
![The battle of Antietam, Md. Sept. 17th 1862, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [1862 or 1863?] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/44/44015e49625e-L.webp)
(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 antique lithograph of The battle of Antietam, Md. Sept. 17th 1862. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The battle of Antietam, Md. Sept. 17th 1862
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Few single days of the Civil War were as deadly as September 17, 1862, when Union and Confederate armies fought along Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. This hand-colored lithograph from the New York firm Currier & Ives commemorates that battle by name and date. The firm sold inexpensive prints to a broad public, and its battle scenes let people far from the fighting follow the war's news. The record gives the publication date as either 1862 or 1863. Antietam ended Lee's first invasion of the North and gave Lincoln the opening he needed to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, [1862 or 1863?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0426 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,105 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112382 |
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