Meades Hdqs. Gettysburg Pa. – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Meades Hdqs. Gettysburg Pa.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Meades Hdqs. Gettysburg Pa.
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Two glass plates, one for each eye, make up this stereograph of the headquarters that the record labels "Meades Hdqs." at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Major General George G. Meade used the town as his command post during the Gettysburg Campaign in July 1863, so the 1861 date in the catalog likely reflects a cataloging error, though the record does not say so. The wet collodion process of the period required long exposures, so the scene is static, but the pair gives it depth when viewed through a stereoscope. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, worked in Gettysburg and is credited with several views of the battlefield town.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from negative sleeve. 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 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 3,868 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50314 |
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