Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View of breastworks on Round Top – Vintage Wall Art
(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. View of breastworks on Round Top, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View of breastworks on Round Top
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The breastworks on Round Top were earthen and stone defenses that Union soldiers threw up on the wooded hill south of the battlefield's center, which anchored the southern end of the Union line during the fighting of July 2 and 3, 1863. This wet collodion glass negative, made in the weeks after the battle, shows how the fortifications looked once the armies had withdrawn. The image was long credited to Alexander Gardner, the Scottish-born photographer who worked at Gettysburg that summer, though the attribution is now uncertain. Its survival as a stereograph negative makes it useful for studying how the ground was used and how quickly the battlefield became a subject for photographers.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: View of breast works on Round Top Gettysburg. July 1863. 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 × 2,158 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49380 |
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