Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Lt. Col. Samuel K. Schwenk 50th Pennsylvania Infantry (sea – 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. Lt. Col. Samuel K. Schwenk 50th Pennsylvania Infantry (sea, 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. Lt. Col. Samuel K. Schwenk 50th Pennsylvania Infantry (sea
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A wartime officer is the subject here: Lt. Col. Samuel K. Schwenk of the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, identified on the negative sleeve as photographed in July 1865. The image is a glass wet collodion negative, a process that required plates to be coated, exposed, and developed while still wet, and it dominated photography through the 1860s. The Gettysburg in the title is a catalog heading, not a view of the battlefield. Taken a few months after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the portrait records an officer at the close of the war.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Lt. Col Sammuel K. Schwenk 50th Pa. Vol. 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 × 4,113 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49335 |
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