Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Burnside Bridge, over the Antietam [Bridge entrance at right].
Call Number
D North 58/GC131/Box 56/Oversize/19th c./U.S. History/Civil War GA 2011.00168
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc4x51hx668
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : [s.n.], 1862/09/17.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1862
Extent
1 item ; print 17.8 x 23 cm. sheet 42.4 x 58.1 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Augustin J. Powers [through Charles Powers, Princeton University Class of 1938].
References
LC no. 130
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Albumen prints
Depiction: Historical view. Perspective view of bridge, with entrance at right.
Signed in imprint on mount, lower center: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Alex. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District of Columbia. // M. B. Brady, Publisher".
Provenance: Blind stamp, "Bibl Unit Princeton".
Signed in imprint on mount, lower left: "Gardner, Photographer // September 17, 1862".

Discovery Information

Subject
United States—History—Civil War, 18611865—Bridges—In art
Bridges—Maryland—Antietam—In art
Antietam Creek (Pa. and Md.)—In art
United States—History, Military—19th century—In art
Rivers—Maryland—In art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/658dce1f-c01b-436f-87ef-67e9d3bd3131/manifest