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Sharpsburg:

Principal Street

The original photograph is at the Library of Congress Online, and is part of their Civil War Photograph collection.

PHOTOGRAPHER Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

CREATED/PUBLISHED 1862 September.

MEDIUM 1 negative : glass, wet collodion.

REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

CALL NUMBER LC-B815-0595

REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-B8171-0595 DLC (b&w film neg.)

COLLECTION Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)

DIGITAL ID (b&w film copy neg.) cwp 4a39477

NOTES Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0137.

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.