Fair condition images on a yellow mount.  View is from overhead with East Cemetery Hill and Baltimore Street in the foreground, and portions of Evergreen Cemetery and Soldier’s National Cemetery in the background.  The photo would have been taken from a wooden observation tower which stood at the location now occupied by the equestrian statue of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock.

Copyright 1878, this view is described as “View from Battle-field Observatory.”  Published by W. H. Tipton & Co., Gettysburg, Pa. as one of the series of “ARTISTIC STEREO GEMS OF GETTYSBURG SCENERY.”  Photographer’s label on reverse has a list of images taken by Tipton from the observation tower, of which this is number 718.

Light to moderate soiling throughout.  A portion of the left side image is missing at the lower right corner; someone has shaded it in with a pencil. wear along lower edge with a small area of paper loss.

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