View of Battle Field of Antietam on Day of Battle

View of Battle Field of Antietam on Day of Battle

Photograph

Alexander Gardner

Maker
American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.

American, 1862–1901

View of Battle Field of Antietam on Day of Battle

From Photographic Incidents of the War


September 17, 1862
Albumen silver prints
Image (each): 3 1/16 × 2 15/16 in. (7.7 × 7.4 cm)
Mount: 3 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (8.3 × 17.2 cm)
Museum accession
1981.7173.0005
Inscriptions Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on mount recto, LC: Gardner \ Rare \ B
Printed on mount recto, BC: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, by Alex. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.
Printed on applied label on verso, C: PHOTOGRAPHIC INCIDENTS OF THE WAR. \ No. 671. \ VIEW OF BATTLE FIELD OF ANTIETAM ON DAY BATTLE, 17TH SEP- \ TEMBER, 1862. \ 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.

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