Gettysburg - Zook Monument & Wheat Field - 1882
3D red/cyan anaglyph created from stereo card, courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society at: americanantiquarian.org/
Title: No. 764 - Zook Monument, & wheat field, Little Round Top in back ground.
Date: 1882
Photographer: W.H. Tipton
Notes: The wheat field about 19 years after the battle which took place on July 1-3, 1863. The monument is to Union General Samuel Zook who was mortally wounded at this spot while on horseback leading his men on the second day of the battle. The Zook monument was dedicated in 1882, the year this photo was taken.
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History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Theodore Weber Bean
Windmill Pub., 1884
AN UNIQUE MEMORIAL SHAFT.
"Among the many memorials placed upon the battle-field of Gettysburg none is more original in design, pleasing in taste, inexpensive and, withal, so enduring as Zook's. A huge granite boulder, near the spot where Zook fell, rises out of the earth, measuring about nine feet in diameter at the soil line or base, rounded in irregular form to a cone or apex, about five feet from the earth's surface. Into the top of this rockmound a blue marble shaft is sunk and wedged with the most durable material known to the art of masonry. The shaft is eight feet high, sixteen inches at the base, tapering in pleasing proportion to a rounded top. The blue marble is conspicuous in contrast with the prevailing gray tint of the rock, while at some distance rock and shaft seem the most prominent object upon the famous wheat-field. Here, on the 25th of July 1882, assembled the comrades of the lamented Zook, mingling with them companions of his boyhood from the hills of Valley Forge, to do honor to his distinguished service to the country and memorialize his untimely death. Here, to the charming melody and anthe'ns of praise, deepened by the impressive voice of prayer, the spot was solemnly dedicated and made historic for all time to come.”
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Red/Cyan (not Red/Blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting.
Gettysburg - Zook Monument & Wheat Field - 1882
3D red/cyan anaglyph created from stereo card, courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society at: americanantiquarian.org/
Title: No. 764 - Zook Monument, & wheat field, Little Round Top in back ground.
Date: 1882
Photographer: W.H. Tipton
Notes: The wheat field about 19 years after the battle which took place on July 1-3, 1863. The monument is to Union General Samuel Zook who was mortally wounded at this spot while on horseback leading his men on the second day of the battle. The Zook monument was dedicated in 1882, the year this photo was taken.
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History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Theodore Weber Bean
Windmill Pub., 1884
AN UNIQUE MEMORIAL SHAFT.
"Among the many memorials placed upon the battle-field of Gettysburg none is more original in design, pleasing in taste, inexpensive and, withal, so enduring as Zook's. A huge granite boulder, near the spot where Zook fell, rises out of the earth, measuring about nine feet in diameter at the soil line or base, rounded in irregular form to a cone or apex, about five feet from the earth's surface. Into the top of this rockmound a blue marble shaft is sunk and wedged with the most durable material known to the art of masonry. The shaft is eight feet high, sixteen inches at the base, tapering in pleasing proportion to a rounded top. The blue marble is conspicuous in contrast with the prevailing gray tint of the rock, while at some distance rock and shaft seem the most prominent object upon the famous wheat-field. Here, on the 25th of July 1882, assembled the comrades of the lamented Zook, mingling with them companions of his boyhood from the hills of Valley Forge, to do honor to his distinguished service to the country and memorialize his untimely death. Here, to the charming melody and anthe'ns of praise, deepened by the impressive voice of prayer, the spot was solemnly dedicated and made historic for all time to come.”
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Red/Cyan (not Red/Blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting.