Bridge over the Antietam

Bridge over the Antietam

Photograph

Alexander Gardner

Maker
American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882

Mathew B. Brady

American, ca. 1823–1896

Bridge over the Antietam

From Brady's Album Gallery


ca. 1862
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 3 1/16 × 3 1/8 in. (7.7 × 7.9 cm)
Mount: 3 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (8.2 × 17.2 cm)
Gift of Albert Morton Turner
1981.6550.0015
Inscriptions recto (ink):
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.

verso (printed label):
Brady's Album Gallery/
No. 584 1/2./
BRIDGE OVER THE ANTIETAM,/
On the left wing, which was carried by Burnside's Corps, after/
a severe struggle. /
The Photographs of this series were taken directly from nature at con-/
siderable cost. Warning is the efore given that legal proceedings will/
be at once instituted against any parting infringing the copyright./

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