Gettysburg - Entrance Nat'l Cemetery (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Gettysburg - Entrance Nat'l Cemetery
[1913 July]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows the entrance to Gettysburg National Cemetery, probably
taken during the Gettysburg Reunion (the Great Reunion) of July 1913,
which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Gettysburg
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13837
Call Number: LC-B2- 2789-6
Comments and faves
pennylrichardsca (39 months ago | reply)
The Great Reunion, Gettysburg, July 1913:
www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/sidebar/reu nion13.htm
pennylrichardsca (39 months ago | reply)
The Gettysburg National Cemetery elsewhere on Flickr:
Looks like the same gate design--note the circle motifs at the bottom edge matches the 1913 image.
BobMeade (38 months ago | reply)
The gate depicted above are presently at the Baltimore Street entrance to the cemetery. Since this photograph was taken the gates were resized and reset to widen them.
See a contemporary photograph of the gateway and entrance at the official website here:
www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gncem.htm
and these very recent close up photographs:
www.gettysburgdaily.com/?p=4442
Some of the early maintenance history of the fence and gates are here:
www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gncem.htm
A design description here:
"This is the best compositional photograph for the carriage and pedestrian gates, but it excludes the six posts and curving fencing of the entranceway. The most interesting feature of the photo are the half-globes on which the eagles are perched. Painted black like the posts, a five-pointed gold star was gilded onto the surface below and between the birds' talons (not visible in the photocopy). "
[ ref. www.gdg.org/Research/BattlefieldHistories/enc appxf.html ]