View from Battle-field Observatory – 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: View from Battle-field Observatory, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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View from Battle-field Observatory
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This stereograph, numbered 725 in its series, looks north-east from a battlefield observatory at Gettysburg, a raised platform that let visitors survey the fields where the Union and Confederate armies fought in July 1863. The card was published by W.H. Tipton & Co. around 1879, when the battlefield was becoming a place of pilgrimage and memory and local photographers were selling views of it to tourists and veterans. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two nearly identical photographs merge into a single image with depth, so the ground seems to fall away toward the distant ridges. The format was popular in parlors of the period, and such cards now document how the landscape looked in the years after the battle.
| Created / published | Gettysburg, Pa. : published by W.H. Tipton & Co., c1879. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1870-1880.Bird's-eye views 1870-1880.Photographic prints 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 725, looking north-east. |
| Subjects | Battlefields--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg--1870-1880. Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863--Battlefields. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,305 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-193872 |
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