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Field Where General Reynolds Fell, Gettysburg, July 1863
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Artist | Timothy O'Sullivan |
| Spatial Coverage | United States |
| Temporal Coverage | 1863 |
| Description | Along with Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan was one of the primary photographers of the American Civil War. Using wet-plate glass negatives, a cumbersome and labor-intensive technology that did not allow for images of active battle, O'Sullivan concentrated on the war's harrowing aftermath. This photograph depicts a scene following the Battle of Gettysburg, one of the war's bloodiest confrontations, in which thousands of men on both sides lost their lives. The lifeless, exposed bodies of the six soldiers who appear in the photograph had been picked over by survivors searching for shoes and other valuables. This image was among 44 of O'Sullivan's photographs included in Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, one of the first published collections of Civil War photographs. [A work made of albumen print, pl. 37 from the album "gardner's photographic sketch book of the war, vol. 1" (1866).] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
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| Use Rights URL | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Hugh Edwards 19th Century Albumen Silver Print Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book Photography Artworks |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
| Object Type | Photographs |
