Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Gen. George G. Meades headquarters – 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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A window into the past: Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Gen. George G. Meades headquarters, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Gen. George G. Meades headquarters
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This view is titled as the headquarters of Gen. George G. Meade, the commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, who took charge of the army only days before the fighting at Gettysburg in early July 1863. The wet collodion glass negative is a stereograph, meant to be seen as a pair of images that create depth when viewed through a stereoscope, a popular parlor device of the period. The collection once credited the picture to Alexander Gardner, the Washington photographer who documented the battlefield that summer, though that attribution has since been questioned. Photographs like this one helped Americans at home picture a battle they could not otherwise see.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Battle of Gettysburg Gen. Meades Head Quarters. 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 × 2,656 px · prints to 17 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49362 |
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