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Washington D.C. Group of Sanitary Commission workers at the entrance of the Home Lo – Historic Print

Washington D.C. Group of Sanitary Commission workers at the entrance of the Home Lo, 1863 — historic photograph
Washington D.C. Group of Sanitary Commission workers at the entrance of the Home Lo, 1863. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(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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A window into the past: Washington D.C. Group of Sanitary Commission workers at the entrance of the Home Lo, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Few pictures on this board show the civilian relief workers behind the army's medical care, and this one lists a group of U.S. Sanitary Commission staff posed at the entrance of a Washington building whose name is cut off in the record. The Sanitary Commission was a private organization, staffed largely by volunteers, that raised money and supplies for sick and wounded Union soldiers and for the soldiers passing through the capital. The photograph was made in 1863 by James F. Gibson, who worked in Washington during the war, using a wet collodion glass negative. The sober, formal arrangement of the workers at the doorway reflects how photographers of the period presented organized wartime service.

Created / published1863
Medium1 negative : glass wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0813 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Medical aspects. Hospitals.United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,716 × 1,362 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-51955

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