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Culp's Hill from Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, Pa. – Vintage Wall Art

Culp's Hill from Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, Pa., Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1923. — historic photograph
Culp's Hill from Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, Pa., Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1923.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 Culp's Hill from Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, Pa., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Culp's Hill from Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, Pa.

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Culp's Hill rises just south of Cemetery Hill, and this stereograph, published by the Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, around 1923, shows the wooded ridge as it looked from the higher ground to the north. The company produced stereo cards like this in large numbers during the 1920s, sold to parlors and schools as a way to view landscapes in three dimensions. Culp's Hill was the scene of heavy fighting on July 2 and 3, 1863, when Union troops held its slopes against Confederate assaults, and by the 1920s the battlefield had become a major tourist destination. The card therefore records both the terrain and the growing interest in preserving the site as a memorial.

Created / publishedMeadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1923.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreLandscape photographs 1920-1930.Stereographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesJ261045 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 23455.
SubjectsBattlefields--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg--1920-1930. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,285 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177963

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