Gettysburg Pennsylvania. John L. Burns cottage. (Burns seated in doorway) – Historic Reproduction
(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. John L. Burns cottage. (Burns seated in doorway). It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. John L. Burns cottage. (Burns seated in doorway)
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Seated in the doorway of his own home, John L. Burns is the figure that sets this view apart from the many scenes of Gettysburg photographed in 1863. Burns, an older local man, had taken up a musket as a civilian volunteer on the first day of the battle and was wounded, which made him something of a local hero. The picture survives as a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical images meant to be viewed together for a three-dimensional effect. Its record notes that it was once attributed to Alexander Gardner, a leading photographer of the battlefield.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: John L. Burns cottage at Gettysburg Pa. 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-49365 |
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