Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Confederate sharpshooter killed by a shell – Antique 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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A window into the past: Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Confederate sharpshooter killed by a shell, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Confederate sharpshooter killed by a shell
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A Confederate sharpshooter, killed by a shell during the battle, is the subject of this stereograph pair, and the caption on the negative sleeve preserves that account. James F. Gibson made the image in 1863, working with Alexander Gardner's team as they photographed the Gettysburg field in the days after the fighting ended in early July. Each scene was exposed on a wet collodion glass plate, and the two halves were meant to be seen through a stereoscope, which gave the body and rocky ground a sense of depth. Scenes of the war dead like this were rare in public view before the conflict, and they helped Americans grasp its human cost.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: Jas. F. Gibson. Caption from negative sleeve: Confederate sharpshooter who had been killed by a shell at battle of Gettysburg. 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 × 4,921 px · prints to 17 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52682 |
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