1911 Gettysburg Pictures Story Tipton Blocher Civil War Photo Book

  

Gettysburg: The Pictures and the Story. Large-format softcover, approximately 70 pages, original cord binding intact. Color lithographed cover showing a Union soldier before a battle relief medallion; title page portraits of Generals Meade and Lee.

Published by William Tipton, the preeminent battlefield photographer of the Gettysburg era, this revised edition is among the most comprehensive souvenir photo books produced for the battlefield in the early 20th century. The full text of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is printed on the back cover. Interior content includes a photograph of the War Department's topographical relief map of the battlefield; panoramic views from Oak Hill Observation Tower and Little Round Top; Devil's Den; the Soldiers' National Cemetery entrance and Unknown Graves section; monuments of Generals Reynolds, Buford, and Warren; the New York State Monument with full identification of all four bronze relief panels and the generals depicted; and extensive state-by-state monument composite pages for Maine, Massachusetts, and New York Infantry with every regimental marker keyed and identified.

15931 in the Tipton studio numbering system - taken at East Cemetery Hill on April 29, 1893, showing a gathering of Union and Confederate generals including Sickles, Howard, Hancock, Longstreet C. , and others, fully captioned with names. A primary source document of the Blue-Gray reconciliation era. Cover shows wear and some surface cracking; interior pages clean with light age toning. A substantial and historically significant Gettysburg reference.