Elk Mountain Md. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield – Vintage Photo 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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Step back in time with Elk Mountain Md. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Elk Mountain Md. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield
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This stereograph shows the signal tower on Elk Mountain in Maryland, which looked out over the Antietam battlefield in 1862. Signal stations like this one were part of the Union Army's communications network, where officers used flags by day and torches by night to relay messages across the field during the Antietam campaign of September 1862. The image is a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required quick exposures and a portable darkroom. It was formerly attributed to Alexander Gardner, whose photographs did much to shape the war's visual record.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0126 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. 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--Communications. Antietam Battle of Md. 1862. Signal towers.United States--Maryland--Elk Mountain |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,712 × 1,368 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46091 |
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