Rock Creek, below Culp's Hill – Historic Print
![Rock Creek, below Culp's Hill, Gettysburg, Pa. : photographed and published by W.H. Tipton & Co., [between 1863 and 1890] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bf/bfec5258ef39-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Rock Creek, below Culp's Hill in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Rock Creek, below Culp's Hill
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Rock Creek, which runs along the base of Culp's Hill, is the subject of this stereograph, a view of quiet water and wooded banks. The creek lay near some of the fiercest fighting of July 2 and 3, 1863, when Union troops held the hill's slopes against Confederate assaults. Within a few years after the war, the ground drew visitors eager to see the battlefield. The card was issued by W.H. Tipton & Co., a Gettysburg firm that sold stereographs to those visitors. Each card held two nearly identical photographs, which a stereoscope merged into a single image with depth.
| Created / published | Gettysburg, Pa. : photographed and published by W.H. Tipton & Co., [between 1863 and 1890] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1890.Photographic prints 1860-1890. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 502. |
| Subjects | Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. Streams--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg--1860-1890. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,301 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-193870 |
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