Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Breast works on extreme left – Antique Wall Art
(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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This historic photograph of Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Breast works on extreme left brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Breast works on extreme left
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A stone-and-earth barricade on the far left of the Union line at Gettysburg is the subject of this view, a detail that sets it apart from the battlefield's many scenes of monuments and fields. The caption on the negative sleeve says the works were thrown up during the battle in July 1863, when Union soldiers fortified the southern end of their position as Confederate attacks pressed in. The image is a wet collodion glass stereograph negative, a format that produced paired views for viewing in a stereoscope. The negative was once attributed to Alexander Gardner, a leading Civil War photographer, though that attribution is now uncertain.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Breastworks thrown up-on the extreme left at the battle of Gettysburg. July 1863. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,102 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49344 |
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