Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Offices of U.S. Sanitary Commission – Historic 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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Step back in time with Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Offices of U.S. Sanitary Commission, a historic photograph rich in period detail. 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. Offices of U.S. Sanitary Commission
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Few places in the Gettysburg record speak as directly to the battle's aftermath as this office of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, photographed in 1863. The Commission was a privately run organization that supplied food, bandages, and other relief to Union soldiers, and it worked in the town after the fighting in early July, when the wounded far outnumbered available care. The negative is a wet collodion glass stereograph, a format that produced paired images for viewing through a stereoscope. It was once credited to Alexander Gardner, the Civil War photographer, though that attribution is no longer assumed.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Office of the U.S. Sanitary Commission - 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 × 2,136 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49373 |
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