A mounted albumen photograph depicting a modest frame farmhouse with adjacent outbuildings, set among mature shade trees with rail and post fencing in the yard — the Abraham Brian farm on Cemetery Ridge, near the Angle and the focal point of the July 3, 1863, fighting at Gettysburg. The print is mounted to heavy card stock and carries period pencil inscriptions on the verso.

The reverse is annotated in a period hand, "Genl. Meade's Head Qrs. / Gettysburg, Pa.," with a numbered notation ("No. 1") along the top edge repeating that identification. This is a long-standing misattribution: the image in fact depicts the Brian farm, not Meade's headquarters (the Lydia Leister house on the Taneytown Road). The erroneous caption is itself a period artifact and part of the photograph's history.

Albumen print on card mount, image approximately 8½ x 7 in., mount approximately 14 x 11 in. Warm sepia tone consistent with the process.

Condition: mount with edge chipping, corner loss, and surface soiling; several breaks/cracks to the card at the upper corner; image with scattered emulsion losses and light silvering in the highlights. A displayable period view with strong battlefield association.  [ss] [ph:L]

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