U.S.S. Solace apothecaries and nurses – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with U.S.S. Solace apothecaries and nurses, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S.S. Solace apothecaries and nurses
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Few pictures in this group show the people who tended the sick and wounded rather than the gun crews, and this one shows the pharmacists and nurses aboard the U.S.S. *Solace* in 1898. The *Solace* was a passenger steamer that the Navy bought that year and fitted out as a hospital ship, one of the first the service had, and it cared for casualties during the Spanish-American War. The plate is a large glass negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its views of American places around 1900, and the photographer is attributed to Hart based on matching negative numbers.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution to Hart based on negatives with similar numbers. Negatives are close variants. Dup" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020971. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Solace (Hospital ship) United States.--Navy. Hospital ships. Government vessels--American. Druggists. Nurses. Seamen. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64164 |
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