Rare 1880's Antietam Civil War Battlefield Souvenir Real Photo Book Original Rare 1880's Antietam Civil War Battlefield Souvenir Real Photo Book Original
A good postwar veteran's souvenir photograph book, entitled: "Views of ANTIETAM BATTLEFIELD," King, Photographer, Hagerstown, Maryland, containing 28 gelatin processed cabinet card size real photo photographs of the Antietam battlefield, ca. 1880. Each photo has a handwritten caption above it. Pages are holed for binding together with original tassel absent but complete book with an additional image. The table of contents indicate that some of the photos include, in part: "Entrance of National Cemetery, (Sharpsburg.)…Section of Graves in Cemetery…Mumma Buildings, (during battle.)…Burnside Bridge…Roulette Buildings…Memorial Window, Reformed Church, (used as a hospital during battle…". There are also "then and now" photographs of the "Old Dunkard Church" and "Bloody Lane." Plus there are photographs of the monuments for the 20th New York (Turner Rifles), 8th, 11th, 14th and 16th Connecticut, 5th Maryland, 35th Mass. Vols. and 51st Pennsylvania among others. A rare volume, the last example of this I could find was by Raynor's sale House in 2014.
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