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Gettysburg · Memorial - Anniversary – Vintage Wall Art

Gettysburg · Memorial - Anniversary — historic image
Gettysburg · Memorial - Anniversary. Historic image from the Gettysburg collection.

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Gettysburg · Memorial - Anniversary comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Gettysburg · Memorial - Anniversary

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This view belongs to the series of anniversary observances at Gettysburg, where the 1863 battlefield became a place of commemoration within a generation. The veterans who returned for these gatherings, many of them elderly by the later decades, camped, marched, and sat for pictures among the monuments and cemetery grounds they had once fought over. Such images document how the battle was remembered as much as how it was fought, with reunion and reconciliation shaping the landscape as much as the original armies did. Look closely at the crowds, uniforms, and setting for clues to the particular year and the ceremonies behind it.

Original scan2,808 × 2,195 px · prints to 9 × 7 in at 300 dpi
Reference18251u

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