Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Unfit for service. Artillery caisson and dead mule – Historic Print
(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. Unfit for service. Artillery caisson and dead mule. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Unfit for service. Artillery caisson and dead mule
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Few images from the battlefield at Gettysburg are as blunt about the cost of the fighting as this view of a wrecked artillery caisson beside the carcass of a dead mule. The wet collodion glass negative, one of three variant plates made for a stereograph, shows the wagon's splintered frame and broken wheel in the summer aftermath of the battle in July 1863. Alexander Gardner, long credited with this work though later attribution has shifted, was among the photographers who went onto the field soon after the fighting ended, and his crews often arranged or framed scenes like this one for maximum effect. Stereo pairs were sold to viewers who could look at them through a stereoscope, so the scene was meant to feel close and immediate.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 3 negatives : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Broken Artillery caisson on Battlefield Gettysburg. 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 × 4,805 px · prints to 17 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49377 |
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