Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Little Round Top – Antique 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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A window into the past: Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Little Round Top, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Little Round Top
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Little Round Top, the rocky hill south of Gettysburg, anchored the Union left flank on July 2, 1863, when Confederate attacks came up its slopes. This view survives as a stereograph pair of wet collodion glass negatives, one for each eye, which gave the boulders and ridges a sense of depth when viewed through a stereoscope. The record notes that the pair was once attributed to Alexander Gardner, a reminder of how loosely Civil War photographic work was credited. Photographers at Gettysburg documented the ground soon after the fighting, so the scene shows the terrain much as soldiers and visitors would have seen it.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Little Round Top 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 | 5,074 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49368 |
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