Original cloth board album. Late-19th century. Contains 48 pages, including 30 albumen and 9 silver gelatin photographs of Gettysburg and its memorials. Some photos include period inscriptions, most likely from who took the photos. Others include inscriptions printed in negative. The last filled page houses a clipping of a portrait of Elihu B. Washburne, taken by Mathew Brady around 1861. 

The albumen photos average around 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. The silver gelatin photos are 4 x 3 in. The clipping is 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. 

Notable photos featuring period inscriptions include: 

1. "Gettysburg / East Cemetery Hill Weidricks Battery in foreground just over Stone Wall (over which hand to hand contest occured [sic]) in Ricketts Battery and on its right Coopies [sic]"

2. "Wadsworth Fieldworks Culps Hill"

3. "Little and Big Round Top from Emmitsburg road"

4. "Sherfy House and old Cherry Tree" 

5. "Marker showing Armstrong (Confederate) Left / Bloody Angle" 

6. "South West end of National Cemetery Round Top in distance" 

7. "Devils Kitchen / The last point occupied by Confederate Sharpshooters Shaving Summit of Little Round Top in background" 

The rest of the inscriptions on the silver gelatin photos seem to be in a different handwriting. These photos were provided by a "Mr. Smart," so perhaps he is the one who wrote the inscriptions. 

The fact that there is a clipping of Elihu B. Washburne in this photo album leads to the assumption that perhaps he is the one who took at least some of these photographs. However, according to a manufacturer's sticker at the beginning of the album, the earliest it could have been produced was 1895, almost a decade after Washburne passed. 

This album and its components were patented by Cyrus E. Morehouse, president of the Morehouse Manufacturing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1896, he became the vice president of The Heinn Company, who manufactured all of Morehouse's originally patented loose leaf books. 

A fine collection of period Gettysburg photographs. 

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