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  An unburied Rebel soldier lies next to the grave of Lt. John Clark of the 7th Michigan on the Antietam battlefield. This image was taken on September 19, 1862. Three weeks later, it was displayed for the first time at Mathew Brady's New York gallery. The Antietam photos created a sensation. Wrote the New York Times on October 20, 1862: "If Brady has not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards and along streets, he has done something very like it." These two views show the different perspectives gained by cropping the original prints in a different manner. The original negative was 4x10 inches, which means an inch of the width of each image had to be eliminated to reduce them to 3x6 inches to fit on a stereo card. The top view shows more of the right side of the image, including a civilian observer. The bottom view, which a caption label pasted on front, shows more of the left side of the original negative. Scroll down to the back of the view.  Top view: Here we show the back of the view that includes the civilian observer. This particular original print was found in an original 1860s vintage multiple-card viewer, where it sat for more than 130 years. Marks are visible on the front of the card from the metal holder that held the card in place in the machine. Scroll down to see how this image was published in the Harper's Weekly newspaper on October 18, 1862.  This is how Alexander Gardner's "A Contrast" image appeared in Harper's Weekly newspaper on October 18, 1862, about a month after the battle of Antietam. Newspapers during the Civil War could not reproduce photographs. The halftone process that allowed photo reproduction in newspapers was not invented until the 1880s. But publications such as Harper's Weekly often had artists make drawing of photographs, particularly portraits. The drawings were then made into woodcut engravings, which could be reproduced. "A Contrast" was one of eight Gardner Antietam photographs reproduced on the newspaper's two-page centerspread of October 18. |
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