A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg
Photograph
Alexander Gardner
American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War
July 5, 1863
Albumen silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 7 3/4 in. (15.9 × 19.7 cm)
Mount: 10 × 12 in. (25.4 × 30.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, 1948
1978.0586.0006
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, BC: Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War: Plate No. 36 / Negative by T.H. O'Sullivan. Positive by A. Gardner [illegible] e1
Stamped in black ink on mount verso, BRC: [sideways] PHILIP MEDICUS / 470 W-ST END AVE. \ NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. \ #872
Inscribed in black in on mount verso, C: [sideways] #7964 \ Union dead at the extreme left of the \ Union lines on the field at Gettysburg, \ July 4, 1863.
Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, L: [sideways] Neg. by T.H. O'Sullivan, July 5, 1863: See Gardner Sketchbook \ O85-A
Stamped in black ink on mount verso, BRC: [sideways] PHILIP MEDICUS / 470 W-ST END AVE. \ NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. \ #872
Inscribed in black in on mount verso, C: [sideways] #7964 \ Union dead at the extreme left of the \ Union lines on the field at Gettysburg, \ July 4, 1863.
Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, L: [sideways] Neg. by T.H. O'Sullivan, July 5, 1863: See Gardner Sketchbook \ O85-A
