Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Slaughter pen at foot of Round Top – Vintage 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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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Slaughter pen at foot of Round Top comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Slaughter pen at foot of Round Top
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The name on this view, the Slaughter Pen at the foot of Round Top, refers to a rocky, boulder-strewn ground south of Gettysburg where fighting raged during the battle in early July 1863. Alexander Gardner, whose team worked the battlefield within days of the fighting, made the picture as a stereograph, a pair of slightly offset images that create depth when viewed through a stereoscope. Because the photograph was made on a wet collodion glass plate, its detail records the scene as the photographers found it in the weeks after the battle.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: Alex. Gardner. Caption from negative sleeve: Slaughter Pen at foot of Round Top. 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 | 4,822 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52689 |
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