According to the info in post #3 the publishing date was March 14, 1906.Thanks for the replies. I would have never thought it was published in 1909! What a great surprise and addition to my collection.
Circa 1906?According to the info in post #3 the publishing date was March 14, 1906.
From what I can find out from various sites, the publishers J. I. Mumper and R. C. Miller released the first edition on March 14, 1906 and also a leather bound edition dated 1906; a second printing was released in 1907; a leather bound edition in 1909; another edition in 1912; a first (yes, first) edition in 1915 that included a folding panoramic photo of the Gettysburg 1913 Veteran's 50th Reunion; a 1906 edition published by the Jennie Wade Museum and a 2017 edition published by Forgotten Books.Circa 1906?
This is true for many other souvenir books and pamphlets about Gettysburg; I have one or more I bought as "recently" as the Centennial during my visits there 1961 or 1964, and other than knowing when or where I bought them, they look pretty much as they might've twenty, thirty, forty, or even fifty years earlier!As I did further research the book was printed in many different years. It’s hard to tell which is which because of no copyright date in the book. The book listed above is much different than mine.
Johnny, you are correct. I followed the link and that book has a lot more pages than mine. That’s what got me thinking. So a good guess would be 1909. Anyway it’s a very interesting book with great pictures.Did everyone notice that if you go to the Library of Congress website indicated above, then follow the link, you can page through that particular book with all it’s photos? (72 pages). It may be possible that NJPaul’s version is a condensed publication, possibly available to visitors of the battlefield, and therefore without the copyright of the original. Thank you for posting!
The book in the LoC link was published in 1909. How many pages does your book have? We might be able to determine the year it was published by the amount of pages it contains.Johnny, you are correct. I followed the link and that book has a lot more pages than mine. That’s what got me thinking. So a good guess would be 1909. Anyway it’s a very interesting book with great pictures.