[Jennie Wade]

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1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 17 x 11 cm (cabinet card format) | Photograph shows portrait of identified young woman who was killed by a stray bullet at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

About this photograph

The archive identifies this as a portrait of a young woman killed by a stray bullet at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The photograph is dated to 1861, two years before the battle itself took place in July 1863.

The image is an albumen print mounted as a cabinet card, a popular format for studio portraits. By the Civil War years, photography had become widespread. Soldiers on both sides commonly sat for portraits before leaving home, giving family members a carte de visite or tintype to keep. Exposure times made action photography impossible, so the visual record consists almost entirely of portraits, camp scenes, fortifications, and the dead photographed after fighting had ended.

The photographer is listed as William H. Tipton. No further information about the circumstances of this portrait or how it came to be associated with events at Gettysburg appears in the record.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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