View of ditch which had been used as a rifle-pit at the Battle of Antietam.
Photograph
Mathew B. Brady
American, ca. 1823–1896
View of ditch which had been used as a rifle-pit at the Battle of Antietam.
From Brady's Album Gallery
1862
Albumen silver print
Image: 8.3 x 11.5 cm
Mount: 11.3 x 15 cm
Gift of H. C. Randolph
1981.0060.0014
Inscriptions mount recto (printed): Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by ALEXANDER GARDNER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.
(pencil): RSJ
mount verso (applied printed label): BRADY'S ALBUM GALLERY. / No. 565. / VIEW OF DITCH / Which had been used as a rifle-pit at the Battle of Antietam. / The Photographs of this series were taken directly from nature at con- / siderable cost. Warning is therefore given that legal proceedings will / be at once instituted against any party infringing the copyright.
(pencil): RSJ
mount verso (applied printed label): BRADY'S ALBUM GALLERY. / No. 565. / VIEW OF DITCH / Which had been used as a rifle-pit at the Battle of Antietam. / The Photographs of this series were taken directly from nature at con- / siderable cost. Warning is therefore given that legal proceedings will / be at once instituted against any party infringing the copyright.
