Antietam, Md. President Lincoln And Gen. George B. McClellan In The General's Tent; Another View – Historic Print
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This rare historic photograph captures Antietam, Md. President Lincoln And Gen. George B. McClellan In The General's Tent; Another View in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Antietam, Md. President Lincoln And Gen. George B. McClellan In The General's Tent; Another View
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Lincoln's visit to McClellan's headquarters near Antietam in early October 1862 is the subject here, shown in a second view of the same tent meeting. The general and the president had come together after the battle of September 17, which had been the bloodiest single day in American history and had halted Lee's first invasion of the North. Alexander Gardner, who photographed the battlefield for Mathew Brady's studio, made this stereograph with a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required the plate to be coated and exposed before it dried. Its double-plate format gave viewers a three-dimensional effect when seen through a stereoscope, a popular parlor device of the day.
| Created / published | October 3, 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative [2 plates], glass, stereograph, wet collodion |
| Notes | Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer |
| Original scan | 4,712 × 3,603 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | L-CW-12 |
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