Gettysburg Pennsylvania. The cemetery gatehouse – 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. The cemetery gatehouse. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. The cemetery gatehouse
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The gatehouse at the entrance to the Gettysburg cemetery is the subject of this stereograph, made in 1863 as the town was still recovering from the battle fought there that July. Its two glass negatives, one for each eye, were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope, so the stone entrance appears to stand out in three dimensions. The pair was once credited to Alexander Gardner, a photographer who documented the battlefield that year, but that attribution is now listed as uncertain. Views like this one, taken as the cemetery was being laid out, show how the Gettysburg dead and the town's grounds were being shaped into lasting memorials.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Cemetery Gate Gettysburg Pa. 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 × 5,047 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49376 |
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