Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Effect of a shell on a Confederate – Vintage 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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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Effect of a shell on a Confederate comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Effect of a shell on a Confederate
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A shell's damage to a Confederate soldier is the subject of this stereograph, preserved as a matched pair of glass plates. The negatives are credited to Alexander Gardner, and the record also names James F. Gibson, both of whom worked on the battlefield at Gettysburg in the days after the fighting in early July 1863. Wet collodion plates were slow and fragile, and the paired images were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope, which gave viewers a sense of depth. Today the picture stands as a direct record of the battle's cost as well as an early example of photography recording war.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: Alex. Gardner. Caption from negative sleeve: Effect of a shell on a Confederate soldier 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 | 5,052 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52685 |
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