This is an amazing then and now of some of the most deadliest places in America.

https://www.theguardian.com/ar...tography-interactive

Pretty cool, thanks for posting.

I didn't know (or forgot) that Lincoln was assassinated only 5 days after Appomattox.

Very cool. Thank you for sharing. I love these types of photo comparisons. I follow a guy on Instagram who travels Europe finding places from photographs taken during WW1 and WW2 and comparing to present times. I find it amazing how much has both changed yet remained the same. Then I wonder how many people walk down a street or drive by a building not realizing what happened there years before.

There's the famous picture of Hitler standing before the Eiffel Tower after he'd conquered France, then a picture at the same spot by the same wall 75 years later of a guy proposing to his girl. All I'm thinking is dude your proposing next to Hitler!

History is wonderful.

The Devil's Den pics are very moving.

Thanks for posting that, that was really awesome and interesting to check out

Very cool

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Originally posted by radioman:
The Devil's Den pics are very moving.

Except they were fake/staged. Everyone in that photo is very much alive...

This view was taken by Peter S. Weaver, on November 11, 1863. It is looking northeastward toward Little Round Top from Devil's Den. It depicts 9 Union soldiers posing as dead on the Gettysburg battlefield with Doctors Lyford (standing at left) and Chamberlain (standing at right) looking over this staged scene of carnage. One of the posed dead is Musician Jacob Shenkel, Co. L, 62nd Pennsylvania Infantry. He is lying below the man with the wide brimmed hat (Dr. Chamberlain). During the battle, Shenkel helped to attend to the wounded. He was among those ordered to stay behind in Gettysburg after the battle, and in the nearly 5 months he remained there, he served as hospital attendant, first at the 5th Corps field hospital, and then at the general hospital at Camp Letterman. He was one of those who witnessed President Lincoln deliver his immortal Gettysburg Address during the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, Nov. 19, 1863. This view is the earliest known photograph to depict both Devil's Den and Little Round Top which makes it a very important image in the study of the Gettysburg battlefield! Weaver's original series was produced on large plate negatves; the smaller versions were contemporary copies made by local area photographers.

Doctors Chamberlain and Lyford, the standing men in this view, operated the embalming firm of Drs. Chamberlain & Lyford.

Source: Early Photography at Gettysburg, by William A. Frassanito.