Gen. Lee's headquarters – Antique Print
![Gen. Lee's headquarters, Gettysburg, Pa. : W.H. Tipton & Co., photographers and publishers, [between 1863 and 1890] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/95/950afa0944ab-L.webp)
(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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Gen. Lee's headquarters 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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Gen. Lee's headquarters
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Lee's headquarters in Gettysburg was a place where Confederate command decisions were made during the battle of July 1863, and this stereograph records it as a site of that moment rather than as a battlefield scene. The card was made and sold by W.H. Tipton & Co., a Gettysburg studio that photographed the town and its surroundings for visitors in the decades after the fighting. Stereo views like this one were meant to be seen through a stereoscope, which gave the flat image depth and made distant sites feel present. Its date range, between 1863 and 1890, suggests it was made during the period when the battlefield was becoming a destination for tourists and veterans.
| Created / published | Gettysburg, Pa. : W.H. Tipton & Co., photographers and publishers, [between 1863 and 1890] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1890.Photographic prints 1860-1890. |
| Notes | Photographed and published by W.H. Tipton & Co. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 573. |
| Subjects | Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),--1807-1870--Homes & haunts--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg. Military headquarters--Confederate--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg--1860-1890. Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863--Military facilities. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,822 × 1,430 px · prints to 9 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-193871 |
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