MUMPER STEREO VIEW OF REYNOLDS FAMILY AT DEVIL’S DEN

MUMPER STEREO VIEW OF REYNOLDS FAMILY AT DEVIL’S DEN

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Item Code: 2024-5763

This is a 19th-century stereograph, or stereo card, of the Gettysburg battlefield, published by Mumper & Co. of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It shows a group of visitors posing among the boulders at Devil’s Den Top a few months after the battle.

The card has two nearly identical albumen photographs mounted side by side on a bright orange card with rounded corners. The two images were taken by a twin-lens camera from slightly different angles. Seen through a stereoscope, they merge into one three-dimensional scene. The scene is a huge outcrop of rounded, weathered granite boulders. About ten people stand among the rocks. Those atop the rocks are soldiers in town during the National Cemetery dedication. The men and women below are known to be members of General Reynolds’ family also in town for the event.

Written in period brown ink on the back is “Signal Rock, Round Top.”  Under this a printed label reads “Gettysburg Battle-Field Views, published by Mumper & Co., Photographic Artists, No. 25 Baltimore st., Gettysburg, Pa.” Below it is a numbered list of the firm’s available views, with the note “Pencil Mark Indicates the View.” Here, the pencil line appears at “Large Rocks on Round Top,” which is in error as we now know the area is Devil’s Den.

Image has a light patch on left edge but is otherwise good and clear. The Orange mount remains in very fine condition.  [jet][ph:L]

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