PRESENTS
The Tipton Collection
of
The Gettysburg National Military
Park Library
These images are thumbnails
of
the 600m dpi scanned images on the CD.
t2263.jpg "Shealer barn, used as hospital during the Civil
War,"
(c. 1900). View at mow side of thatched roof barn, looking across
Shealer
Road.
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t2264.jpg "Shealer barn, built 1792, used as Hospital during
the
Civil War," (c. 1900). View of mow side of thatched roof barn, looking
northwest toward lean-to wagon shed and corn crib.
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t2265.jpg Amputation scene as Camp Letterman, U.S. General
Hospital
at Gettysburg (c. August 1863). Weaver photograph of surgeon in shirt
sleeves
wielding amputating knife over leg of victim. Officers, stewards, and
civilians
standing about in front of evergreen-draped wall tent. Sanitary
Commission
chief Rev. Winslow at right.
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t2266.jpg Headquarters of U.S. Sanitary Commission, Hospital
Woods
at Camp Letterman (c. August 1863). Showing Rev. Gordon Winslow seated
at right with surgeons and nurse/volunteers in front of headquarters
tent;
woods and other tents surrounding them.
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t2267.jpg View of hospital tents at Camp Letterman, view to
the
southwest from Hospital Woods. Showing main avenue between woods and
hospital
tents in foreground, ventilating wall tents with recuperating soldiers
in background, Tyson photo. (c. August 1863)
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t2268.jpg View of hospital tents and grounds at Camp
Letterman;
view to the west with Gettysburg's southeast quadrant in background,
including
German Reformed Church. Fields of Culp, Wolf, and Houdeshell Farms in
between
Wolf Woods and town. (c. August 1863)
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t2269.jpg "U.S. Christian Commission Headquarters at Gen.
Hospital
- - taken in '63," Tipton #325e (c. August 1863). Volunteers, wounded
soldiers,
and boys in front of headquarters tents of the Christian Commission at
Hospital Woods.
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t2270.jpg "U.S. Christian Commission Headquarters at Gen.
Hospital
- - taken in '63," Tipton #325e (c. August 1863). Similar to #2269, but
with fewer people standing in front of tents.
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t2271.jpg View into Hospital Woods, showing headquarters of
Sanitary
Commission tent surrounded by other tents; large Union flag draped over
headquarters.
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t2273.jpg "Steven's 5th Maine Battery Monument - - Steven's
Knoll,"
Tipton #1166 (1889). View of artillery-relief side of monument, just
after
construction.
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t2274.jpg "2nd Md. (Confederate) Monument - - Culp's Hill,"
Tipton
#935 (c. 1888). View of monument from avenue, looking towards woods,
with
expanse of open ground between monument and woods.
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t2275.jpg "2nd Md. (Confederate) Monument - - Culp's Hill,"
Tipton
#935 (c. 1888). View of reverse side of monument, looking in the
direction
of Pardee Field.
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t2276.jpg "On Wolf Hill - - (49th N.Y. Monument)", Tipton #389
(c.1900). View north from Neill Avenue, showing monument at right and
J.
Taney house in distance.
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t2277.jpg View east from East Cemetery Hill at redans of
Rickett's
Battery and 4th Ohio Infantry Monument (c.1900s). Benner's Hill,
Christian
Benner barn, Wolf Hill etc. visible in distance.
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t2278.jpg "153 Penn'a Inft. Monument, East Cemetery Hill,"
Tipton
#845 (c.1885). View to the east-northeast from wall in front of old
Shippensburg
Road/Wainwright Avenue, foot of East Cemetery Hill.
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t2279.jpg Spangler's Meadow from edge of McAllister Woods,
looking
northeast toward Confederate positions. Rear of 2d Massachusetts
Monument
in middle-ground. Roadster parked on Colgrove Avenue. (c. 1917)
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t2280.jpg View on east Cemetery Hill, looking towards Hancock
Equestrian Monument from the redans of Rickett's Battery. (c. 1900)
Part
of panorama; also see #2277.
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t2281.jpg Hancock Equestrian Monument, East Cemetery Hill,
looking
southeast in direction of 4th Ohio Monument, Tipton #1239 (c.1920).
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t2282.jpg Slocum Equestrian monument from the west, with redan
and gun of Stevens Battery in foreground (c. 1902).
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t2283.jpg Stevens Knoll from west on Slocum Avenue, looking
toward
Slocum Equestrian, redans, and monument of 5th Maine Battery
(1906-1910?)
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t2284.jpg Slocum Equestrian Monument on Steven's Knoll, east
side,
looking toward Baltimore Pike, Tipton #1252 (1902). Gun depressed off
its
elevating screw in foreground. McKnight house in background.
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t2285.jpg Genl Greene Statue, Culp's Hill, with observation
tower
directly behind it (1907). View to the north, from below monument on
old
Slocum Avenue.
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t2286.jpg Genl Green Statue, view to the northwest, with
observation
tower to the right (1902).
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t2287.jpg Candy's bronze Brigade Marker, Culp's Hill (c.1912)
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t2288.jpg Greene's bronze Brigade Marker, Culp's Hill (c.1912)
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t2289.jpg Bronze Union itinerary tablets on Baltimore Pike at
East Cemetery Hill (c.1900). Electric trolley tracks in foreground,
Lafayette
square fence overgrown with vegetation.
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