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ORIGINAL! RARE!CIVIL WAR GETTYSBURG PHOTOGRAPHER LEVI MUMPER PHOTO of HIDEN MOTHER w/ KIDS c1889
CIVIL WAR GETTYSBURG PHOTOGRAPHER LEVI MUMPER PHOTO of HIDN MOTHER with KIDS c1889
RARE ! A SMALL FAMILY POSES FOR A PHOTO AT THE NOTEDGETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD PHOTOGRAPHERLEVI MUMPER'S STUDIO AFTER VISITING THE SITE OF THE BATTLE of GETTYSBURG.THEIR MOM DISGUISES HERSELF BY HIDING UNDER A BLANKET WITH HER KNEES PROTRUDING AND A SHEET OVER HER HEAD, HER TODDLER ON HER LAP (FOR THE BABIES STABILITY) AT THE DIRECTION OF LEVI MUMPER.
PHOTOGRAPHER'S NAME AND ADDRESS EMBOSSED WITH METALLIC GILT ON LOWER MOUNT:
Mumper
27&28
BALTIMORE
ST. GETTYSBURG, PA.
Levi Mumper (b.1843-d.1916) opened a photographic gallery in Gettysburg c.1864. He moved to Littlestown, PA in 1869, returning to his former Gettysburg studio in 1874. Most of Levi's Civil War battlefield scenes appear to have been taken beginning in the mid-1870s. He sold the photographic business to his son Jacob Ira Mumper (1867-1923) c.1895.
SHARP FOCUS WITH VERY GOOD CONTRAST
MOUNT DEMENSIONS: 4 1/8" x 6 7/16"
CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE OVERALL WITH SOME LIGHT HANDLING FROM ITS 134+ YEARS.
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