A friend of mine has been working on this big Battle of Gettysberg project and I thought some people here might be fans.
This new site is not to be missed! It is a great virtual reality look at what was an 1880s equivalent of a virtual reality - a 360 degree enormous painting of the battle as it raged. The site includes a great deal of research into battlefield photography with many valuable points of interest and other background information. I assisted in the development in a limited way, but the real nod must go to Howard Goldbaum, a true master of this modern media approach to presenting historic sites. - He is also the creative genius behind Voices from the Dawn, which considers the interplay between Irish megalithic sites and folklore (I was one of his reviewers for that site as well).
Enjoy this new release about Gettysburg. Like the nineteenth-century painting, this new website is a remarkable achievement!
https://battleofgettysburgcyclorama.com/
Appreciate this being shared, thank you.
If a person can't get to Gettysburg to see the cyclorama that is there, this is the next best thing to viewing the actual huge 360 degree painting. I haven't stopped in on any of my more recent trips to the battlefield, yet this is a reminder that I should again.
My understanding is that it is in a newer building than when I last saw the painting, although when I did, and I suspect this is similar now, a person would walk up a ramp from one side of outside the room where the painting hangs and into a circular auditorium to be able to see from the center of the room all the way around the painting.
Another item that is well worth seeing that I recall being at the museum where the painting is are a bunch of photos taken in what was then called "stereoscope", which are two photos, and when looked at through a split viewer, the photos give a somewhat three dimensional viewing. Photography was a relatively new and expanding medium at the time, and with in days of the battle there were several teams of photographs that arrived to take shots of the place at the time, including for use with the "stereoscope" process. Some of these have been displayed in the museum.
As an aside, some of the more famous photos are ones in which a dead soldiers body in the Devil's Den area of the field was moved from one location to another to take different photos. And there were many other photos taken that show rows of bodies that are days old and yet to buried at the time of the pictures being taken. Plus it is from many of these photos that folks can see what the area looked like at the time of the battle, and are used to maintain to some extent what the place was like back then.
