Image of a pond in the foreground, and the wheat field beyond the split rail fence. There is a tree line in the distance. On verso: "The Wheat-field", Gettysburg, taken July 1863. This image is variously attributed to Egbert Guy Fowx, assistant to Brady, or to Mathew Brady. This is the right half of a diptych formed with photCL 307 (13), see: p. 121 Panzer; http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/33.65.391,33.65.352 .
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg Albumen photographs. (aat)
Place
Gettysburg (Pa.)
Source
John P. Nicholson Collection: Civil War Photographs. United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
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