Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View at Trostles barn where the 9th Massachusetts Battery – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View at Trostles barn where the 9th Massachusetts Battery in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View at Trostles barn where the 9th Massachusetts Battery
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The barn at the Trostle farm, south of Gettysburg, is the subject here, and the photographer's caption from the negative sleeve says the 9th Massachusetts Battery was "cut up" at this spot in July 1863. The farm sat behind the Union lines along the Emmitsburg Road, where artillery units took heavy fire during the second day of fighting. T. H. O'Sullivan made the view on wet collodion glass plates, a process that required the photographer to coat, expose, and develop each negative while it was still wet. Because the image was made as a stereograph pair, it was meant to be seen through a viewer for a three-dimensional effect.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 3 negatives (4 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: T. H. OSullivan. Caption from negative sleeve: View at Trostles Barn where the 9th Mass. Battery was cut up. Gettysburg July 1863. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,971 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52691 |
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