Battle-field Observatory, East Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Battle-field Observatory, East Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Battle-field Observatory, East Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg
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What sets this stereograph apart is its subject, a battlefield observatory on East Cemetery Hill, the rise where Union troops rallied on the evening of July 1, 1863, and held through the fighting that followed. By the late 1870s, Gettysburg drew veterans and tourists who wanted to see the ground, and towers like this one let visitors survey the fields below. Issued by W.H. Tipton & Co., a Gettysburg firm, the card shows how the battlefield was packaged for home viewers about fifteen years after the fighting.
| Created / published | c1878. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by W.H. Tipton & Co., Gettysburg, Pa. No. 717. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pa.--G- --1878; Photog. I.; Observatories (Gettysburg, Pa.); C.W.--Battlefields; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,285 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138365 |
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