Cyclorama query

[121st PA Vols]

Yep - that´s exactly how I´d describe its location too. It was not interpreted or curated in any way. It just hung there in a non-climate controlled space. I think you´re right about it being in private ownership.
When Mom was little, she remembers having lunch in that diner near the corner of Steinwehr and Baltimore that´s now an Asian place. My parents honeymooned in Gettysburg in 1960. They stayed at the Quality Inn, and had dinner their first night in town at the Dutch Pantry. We had a travel trailer when I was growing up, and we stayed at Granite Hill and Drummer Boy a lot. Heck, the weekend I went to college we stayed at the Sitting Bull campground that was just the other side of what is now the Eisenhower Convention Center. It was still the Sheraton when I was at Gettysburg College. What a great town to grow up in!

The restaurant was The Avenue Diner owned by my neighbor Grover "Doddie" Thompson, USMC. Quite a guy, went to school with his son. 4th Marines!
The Quality Inn is still there. One of the few 'motels/hotels' the college hasn't bought for dorm space!

 

[BrianB]

here is an article on the history of the cycloramas:

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/a-tale-of-two-cycloramas.htm

I think I remember there being an Antietam cyclorama and a Chickamauga cyclorama - neither exists today and I am not sure if either was ever actually a completed work of art, of if they just existed as sketches/drafts

 

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Missionary Ridge Battle cyclorama
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-fa3e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Gen. Bragg's headquarters on the summit of the ridge

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-fa3f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Advance of the 79th and 86th Indiana volunteers on Star Fort

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44033289?mag=cycloramas-the-virtual-reality-of-the-19th-century&seq=8

There was cyclorama 2nd Battle of Manasas/Bull Run...Gone but some parts were photographed
There was a booklet telling of the making the Great Chicago Fire cyclorama as well!
There was a cyclorama of Custer defeat in 1876!
There was a jerusalem cyclorama,..............
There was a 1919 Battle of Chateau Therry cyclorama !

 

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1887 Booklet on the Atlanta Cyclorama

Atlanta : Battle of July 22, 1864, fought by the armies of the Tennessee, Cumberland and Ohio under Generals Sherman, McPherson, Logan, Thomas and Schofield ; Confederates under Gens. Hood, Hardee, Cheathem and Wheeler : a resume of situations shown

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Catalog Record: Atlanta : Battle of July 22, 1864, fought by the armies of the Tennessee, Cumberland and Ohio under Generals Sherman, McPherson, Logan, Thomas and Schofield ; Confederates under Gens. Hood, Hardee, Cheathem and Wheeler : a resume of s

Details of the Atlanta Cyclorama

Battle of Atlanta story of the Cyclorama Johnston-Sherman Campaign and history of the engine "Texas" : Nelson Crist : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Details General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, with a lecture by J.C. Flemister and story of the Texas by Wm. A. Fuller.

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