Emmitsburg Maryland. St. Josephs Seminary – Historic Photo 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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A window into the past: Emmitsburg Maryland. St. Josephs Seminary, 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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Emmitsburg Maryland. St. Josephs Seminary
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St. Joseph's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, was run by the Sisters of Charity and sat just south of the Pennsylvania line, close enough to feel the 1863 Gettysburg campaign as armies moved through the surrounding countryside. This view survives as a wet collodion glass stereograph negative, and its caption was written on the negative sleeve. The photographer was once credited to Alexander Gardner, an attribution the record now treats as uncertain. The picture is worth noticing for how a church school far from the main battlefield still became part of the wartime visual record.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: St. Josephs Seminary Emmitsburg Md. 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 × 2,002 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48440 |
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