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Stereograph of deceased soldiers on the battlefield after Gettysburg
1863
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
This photographic print stereograph depicts the bodies of several deceased soldiers lying in an open field. A wooden fence in front of a dense forest of trees are in the background. The photographic print is mounted on orange cardboard that is pinkish on the reverse. A piece of paper adhered to the reverse of the mount has printed text with details of a series of Gettysburg battlefield photographs available from photographer and printer W. H. Tipton.
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Catalog reference: 2015.222.19
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