Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Little Round Top – Vintage Print
(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. Little Round Top 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. Little Round Top
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Little Round Top, the rocky hill at the southern end of the Union line, is the spot pictured here, and its slopes saw some of the fiercest fighting on July 2, 1863, when Union troops held the position against Confederate assaults. The image survives as a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required photographers to coat, expose and develop each plate within minutes, which made field work of this kind slow and demanding. The negative was formerly credited to Alexander Gardner, the Scottish-born photographer who documented the battlefield in the weeks after the fighting, though that attribution has since been revised. Its sleeve caption places it in July 1863, making it a useful record of the ground soon after the battle.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Little Round Top 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 × 4,143 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49367 |
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