Signal Tower on Elk Mountain, Maryland, Overlooking Battlefield of Antietam

Signal Tower on Elk Mountain, Maryland, Overlooking Battlefield of Antietam

Photograph

Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Maker
American, b. Ireland, 1840–1882

Alexander Gardner

American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882

Signal Tower on Elk Mountain, Maryland, Overlooking Battlefield of Antietam

Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. I, 1866.


September 1862
Albumen silver print
22.6 x 17.7 cm.
Purchase with funds from Eastman Kodak Company
1981.2858.0022
Inscriptions mount-recto (letterpress) "Negative by T.H. O'Sullivan (copyright
cit. 1866, by A. Gardner) Postive by A. Gardner, 511 7th St.,
Washington. [title] No. 1. August, 1862."
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