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Four Confederate generals in framed portraits with banner captions – Antique Photo Print

Four Confederate generals in framed portraits with banner captions — historic image
Four Confederate generals in framed portraits with banner captions. Historic image from the Gettysburg collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Four Confederate generals in framed portraits with banner captions, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Four Confederate generals in framed portraits with banner captions

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Four framed portraits appear side by side, each set off with a banner caption, a layout that let one sheet honor several Confederate commanders at once. Pictures of this kind were widely produced in the decades after the Civil War, when former Confederates and their supporters shaped a public memory of the conflict around its generals. The record does not name the men shown, so they are best read as part of that tribute tradition rather than as a record of any single event at Gettysburg. The banners and framing are worth studying, since they show how the makers wanted these leaders to be remembered.

Original scan1,029 × 2,086 px · prints to 3 × 7 in at 300 dpi
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