Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Line of breastworks on Round Top – Historic Reproduction
(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 Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Line of breastworks on Round Top, 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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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Line of breastworks on Round Top
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The record places this view on Round Top, the wooded hill south of Gettysburg where fighting raged on July 2 and 3, 1863, and shows the earthen breastworks soldiers threw up there. The record credits T. H. O'Sullivan, who worked on the battlefield that July, and the three surviving plates are variant views of a stereograph, meant to be seen as a pair through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. Wet collodion glass plates required a photographer to coat, expose and develop each image while the plate was still wet, so fieldwork like this was slow and laborious. The fortifications also show how much digging the troops did before and after the fighting.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 3 negatives (3 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: T. H. OSullivan. Caption from negative sleeve: Line of breastworks on 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 | 5,120 × 3,850 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52688 |
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