Position occupied by Hancock's forces July, 2nd – Vintage Print
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Position occupied by Hancock's forces July, 2nd in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Position occupied by Hancock's forces July, 2nd
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Labeled as the position Hancock's forces occupied on July 2, this stereograph shows ground where Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock's Second Corps anchored the Union center on Cemetery Ridge in 1863. Made about sixteen years after the battle, it was published by W.H. Tipton & Co. of Gettysburg for visitors who wanted souvenirs of the field. Viewed through a stereoscope, the paired images gave the ridge a sense of depth that made such cards popular. The fighting on that second afternoon was among the battle's bloodiest, and these quiet fields recall it.
| Created / published | Gettysburg, Pa. : photographed and published by W.H. Tipton & Co., c1879. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1870-1880.Photographic prints 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 526. |
| Subjects | Battlefields--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg--1870-1880. Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,822 × 1,950 px · prints to 13 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-193874 |
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