Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View in wheatfield opposite our extreme left – Historic Reproduction
(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. View in wheatfield opposite our extreme left, 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. View in wheatfield opposite our extreme left
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Taken in the wheatfield at Gettysburg, where fighting surged back and forth on July 2, 1863, this stereograph shows ground the original caption places opposite the Union army's extreme left. The negative sleeve credits T. H. O'Sullivan, who worked with Alexander Gardner's team photographing the battlefield in the weeks after the fighting. The two glass plates were made to be viewed together through a stereoscope, which gives the open field a sense of depth. The scene is a quiet record of ground that had just seen some of the battle's heaviest combat.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives (3 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: T. H. OSullivan. Caption from negative sleeve: View in wheatfield opposite our extreme left 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 × 4,174 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52692 |
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