Visual Materials
Photographs of the monuments erected by the Antietam Battlefield Commission of Pennsylvania
- Description
- An album of 20 photographs of monuments, historic buildings, and ceremonies at the dedication of 13 monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the Antietam Battlefield in Maryland. The monuments commemorated the services of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry regiments who fought at Antietam. Also in the album is a program for the dedication, "Pennsylvania Day," September 7, 1904, and there is a group portrait of Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker (Pennsylvania), his staff, and others at the ceremony. Besides monuments, there are views of significant buildings on the battlefield: Otto Farm, the Roulette Barn, Miller's Mill, and the Dunkard Church.
- Date
- 1904
- Call number
- photCL 303
- Provenance
- Purchased from Gertrude M. Nicholson, through the agency of Robert O. Schad, September 1922. This album was received as part of the Nicholson collection of papers, manuscripts and books related to the Civil War.

