Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Entrance to Gettysburg National Cemetery – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Entrance to Gettysburg National Cemetery. 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. Entrance to Gettysburg National Cemetery
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The gateway to Gettysburg National Cemetery, captured on a glass negative dated July 1865, shows the burial ground two years after the battle that filled it. The cemetery was laid out after the fighting of early July 1863 and dedicated that November, when Abraham Lincoln gave his address there. The wet collodion process used for this negative required photographers to coat and expose plates on site, which made battlefield and cemetery work of the period slow and demanding. Earlier caption books credited Alexander Gardner, but that attribution has since been revised.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name attribution from Civil War caption books. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Entrance to Gettysburg National Cemetery. July 1865. 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 × 4,076 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49358 |
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