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Gettysburg

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Gettysburg

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Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Haunting wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-de-visite photo. Backmark: S.G. Sheaffer, Photographer, Hanover, Pa. His imprint on the reverse advertises for his photographs, albums and frames, and written in period ink is Gettysburg Battlefield. In fine condition. This view was taken by Peter S. Weaver, on November 11, 1863. It is looking northeastward toward Little Round Top from Devil's Den. It depicts 9 Union soldiers posing as dead on the Gettysburg battlefield with Doctors Lyford (standing at left) and Chamberlain (standing at right) looking over this staged scene of carnage.