Hand-colored photograph of rocky battlefield overlook with soldier statue – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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: Hand-colored photograph of rocky battlefield overlook with soldier statue, preserved in this historic photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Hand-colored photograph of rocky battlefield overlook with soldier statue
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The rocky ridge and the bronze soldier standing above it give this view its character: a hand-colored photograph of the kind sold as a souvenir to visitors who came to walk the battlefield. On July 2, 1863, fighting raged across the boulders of Devil's Den, the Wheatfield, and the slopes of Little Round Top, where Union and Confederate troops struggled for control of the southern end of the Union line. Veterans and state commissions erected many monuments on these hills in the decades after the war, so statues like this one recall the men who fought there. The added color, applied by hand over a black-and-white print, was popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when it made these scenes of memory look more vivid.
| Original scan | 3,257 × 2,555 px · prints to 11 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 18257u wheatfield |
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