Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Camp of the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Camp of the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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. Camp of the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry
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A July 1865 view of the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry's camp at Gettysburg, the town where the regiment's home state and the Union army had fought one of the war's bloodiest battles two years earlier, shows the site in a quieter period. By mid-1865 the war had ended, and many volunteer regiments were preparing to muster out, so the camp reflects a transition from combat to peacetime. The picture is a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required quick exposure and careful handling in the field. Alexander Gardner, a Scottish-born photographer known for his Civil War work, was once credited with the image, 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: Camp of 50th Pennsylvania Infantry Gettysburg Pa. 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 × 4,184 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49348 |
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