Sharpsburg Md. Lutheran church – Historic Photo 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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This rare historic photograph captures Sharpsburg Md. Lutheran church in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Sharpsburg Md. Lutheran church
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Sharpsburg, Maryland, is the town where this Lutheran church stands, and the view places a plain house of worship at the center of a community that became known for one of the bloodiest days of the Civil War. The battle of Antietam was fought in and around Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, and in its aftermath churches, homes, and barns across town were pressed into service as hospitals for the wounded. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, made this wet collodion glass stereograph that year, so it captures the community in the weeks when its ordinary buildings were bearing the marks of the fighting.
| Created / published | 1862 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0139 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Antietam Battle of Md. 1862. Churches.United States--Maryland--Sharpsburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,572 × 1,358 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46097 |
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