Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Battered trees on Culps Hill – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Battered trees on Culps Hill. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Battered trees on Culps Hill
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Shattered trunks and stripped limbs crowd the wooded slope of Culps Hill, a rocky height on the southeastern edge of the Gettysburg battlefield. Union troops held entrenchments on the hill during fighting on July 2 and 3, 1863, and the timber around them was chewed by musket and artillery fire. Made as a stereograph pair on wet collodion glass plates, the image was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. Alexander Gardner was formerly credited as its photographer, a attribution that is no longer assumed.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Woods on the left wing. Battle of Gettysburg. 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 × 5,066 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49339 |
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