Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Adj. Lewis Crater 50th Pennsylvania Infantry – Antique 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. Adj. Lewis Crater 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, 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. Adj. Lewis Crater 50th Pennsylvania Infantry
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The name on this glass negative is what sets it apart: its sleeve caption identifies an adjutant of the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry as "L. Carter," while the title reads "Lewis Crater," a spelling discrepancy the record leaves unresolved. The picture is dated July 1865, several months after Lee's surrender ended the fighting, when veterans and officers often returned to Gettysburg, where the 1863 battle still marked the town and fields. It is a wet collodion negative, a process that required photographers to coat, expose and develop each glass plate quickly. It was once attributed to Alexander Gardner, a well-known Civil War photographer, but that attribution is now uncertain.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Adj. L. Carter 50 th Pa. Infantry July 1865. 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 × 4,131 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49337 |
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