Then and Now

There have been lots of folks talking about the Civil War over the last year, but this is one of the coolest … Todd Harrington, who specializes in wet plate photography, has tried to find the location of some of Alexander Gardner’s images from the Battle of Antietam and recreate them. The way NPR put the web page together is pretty sweet, letting you fade between then and now easily.

(Thanks to Tracey Trumbull for the link.)