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Gettysburg Pa. Alfred R. Waud artist of Harpers Weekly sketching on battlefield – Historic Print

Gettysburg Pa. Alfred R. Waud artist of Harpers Weekly sketching on battlefield, 1863 — historic photograph
Gettysburg Pa. Alfred R. Waud artist of Harpers Weekly sketching on battlefield, 1863. Historic photograph from the Gettysburg 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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Here an artist is the subject rather than the battle: Alfred R. Waud, the illustrator for Harper's Weekly, is shown sketching on the Gettysburg field. Waud's drawings were engraved and printed in the magazine, which made wood engravings the main way most Northern readers saw the war, since photographs could not yet be reproduced in newspapers. The picture is a glass stereograph made with the wet collodion process, a method that required the photographer to coat and expose each plate quickly on site. Catalog records of the period have long credited Alexander Gardner with the image, though the Library of Congress lists that attribution as a former one.

Created / published1863
Medium1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0198 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.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Communications. Gettysburg Battle of Gettysburg Pa. 1863. War correspondents.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,768 × 1,372 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46772

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