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Maker(s):Gardner, Alexander
Culture:American
Title:Battle of Antietam Reproductions
Date Made:unknown
Materials:paper
Place Made:unknown
Measurements:overall: 8 in x 10 in; 20.3 cm x 25.4 cm
Accession Number:  HC 2016.1.278
Credit Line:Purchased from Robert W. Lisle, MD, 2004
Museum Collection:  Hampshire College Art Gallery

Description:
Two reproductions of photographs taken by Alexander Gardner of teh Battle of Antietam at 'Bloody Lane" or 'Sunken Lane'. Alexander Gardner took 70 photographs of the battlefield starting two days after the battle. This was the first time an American battlefield had ever been phtographed before the bodies were buried.

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photographs

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