Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Crowd at dedication of battlefield – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Crowd at dedication of battlefield. 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. Crowd at dedication of battlefield
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The record places this glass negative at the 1863 dedication of the Gettysburg battlefield, where a large crowd gathered in November to honor the Union dead. That ceremony, held on November 19 at the new soldiers' cemetery, is best known for Abraham Lincoln's brief address. The plate is a wet collodion stereograph negative, a process that required photographers to coat, expose, and develop each plate in a short window. For years the image was credited to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is now uncertain. The caption calls the scene a monument dedication, so the exact occasion is worth checking against other views from that day.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Dedication of Monument at Gettysburg. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,656 px · prints to 17 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49353 |
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