Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, cover – Historic Photograph Print
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This rare historic photograph captures Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, cover in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, cover
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Rather than a view of the battlefield itself, this is the cover of the book that carried many of those views to the public: Alexander Gardner's *Photographic Sketch Book of the War*, issued in Washington in 1866 as two volumes of mounted photographs. Gardner's crews worked across the Gettysburg field in the summer of 1863, and several of the book's plates show the dead, the ground and the town as they looked just after the fighting. The book presented these images as a historical record rather than as art, a claim that shaped how many Americans first came to see Gettysburg.
| Original scan | 3,686 × 2,773 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 00001u |
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