Framed Civil War Photo Gelatin Silver Reprint Gettysburg

Description

Very high quality
Gelatin silver reprint
of a civil war  photo by
Timothy H. O'Sullivan. He began his photography career as an apprentice to Mathew Brady, but he left the Brady gallery to photograph American Civil War battlefields on his own. In 1862 or 1863, he joined the studio of Alexander Gardner, who included forty-four of O'Sullivan's photographs in
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War
, the first published collection of Civil War photographs.
Photographer Timothy H. O'Sullivan took this photo, one half of a stereo view of Alfred R. Waud, artist of Harper's Weekly, while he sketched on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in July of 1863.
image:  13.5 by 10.5 inch
frame 21  x 17.5 inch
East Memphis estate collection.