Scene in the Woods at Slaughter Pen, Gettysburg

Artist Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)

Date1863

MediumAlbumen stereograph

DimensionsImage and sheet (both): 3 × 5 7/8 inches (7.62 × 14.92 cm)
Mount: 3 1/4 × 6 13/16 inches (8.26 × 17.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.3715

SignedOn mount recto, bottom, in black type: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, Alex. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia."; On mount verso, center, white label with black type: "From / Gardner's Gallery, corner of 7th and D streets, / Washington, D.C. / Negative by Alex. Gardner. / E. & H. T. ANTHONY, 501 Broadway, New York, Wholesale Agents."

InscribedOn mount verso, center, white label with black type: " PHOTOGRAPHIC INCIDENTS OF THE WAR. / No. 253. / SCENE IN THE WOODS AT SLAUGHTER PEN."

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DescriptionImage of deceased men lying near trees in a forest.

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