Old John Burns, The Hero of Gettysburg
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Old John Burns, The Hero of Gettysburg
ca. 1863
Albumen silver print
Image: 3 9/16 × 3 5/8 in. (9 × 9.2 cm)
Paper: 3 3/4 × 3 7/8 in. (9.6 × 9.8 cm)
Mount: 5 5/8 × 4 5/16 in. (14.3 × 10.9 cm)
Purchase with funds from Eastman Kodak Company, 1948
1985.1090.0001
Inscriptions recto (black ink): "Old John Burns" The "Hero of Gettysburg-" Fought with the Union troops, using his old flint-lock because the rebels killed his cow. wounded 3. times. Refused to fight in the woods but went to front with the skimishers [sic], he said "I know how to fight I have "fit" before." Over 70 years of age.
(pencil): Harpers Weekly, Aug. 22, 1863, p. 529
verso (black ink): #872
(black stamp): PHILIP MEDICUS
470 WEST END AVE.
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.
(blue ink): EHPC
34-39p
(pencil): Harpers Weekly, Aug. 22, 1863, p. 529
verso (black ink): #872
(black stamp): PHILIP MEDICUS
470 WEST END AVE.
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.
(blue ink): EHPC
34-39p
