Washington D.C. Patients in Ward K of Armory Square Hospital – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Washington D.C. Patients in Ward K of Armory Square Hospital. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington D.C. Patients in Ward K of Armory Square Hospital
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Ward K at Armory Square Hospital, one of the large Union hospitals in Washington, D.C., is the setting here, with rows of patients laid out in their beds under the ward's high roof. The photograph was made in 1865 by James F. Gibson, a Washington photographer who documented the city and its military hospitals during and just after the war. Armory Square, named for the Armory building near the Capitol grounds, took in wounded soldiers from the battles of the Eastern Theater, and wet collodion glass negatives like this one required long exposures, so the scene holds still with an unusual stillness. Look closely at how the ward stretches into the distance to see the scale of care the city had to provide.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0799 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Medical aspects. Hospitals.United States--District of Columbia--Washington. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,708 × 1,352 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51959 |
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