Washington D.C. Officers at door of Seminary Hospital (formerly Georgetown Female S – Antique Print
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Washington D.C. Officers at door of Seminary Hospital (formerly Georgetown Female S in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Washington D.C. Officers at door of Seminary Hospital (formerly Georgetown Female S
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Few Civil War images show the people who ran the wards as plainly as this one, which records officers gathered at the doorway of Seminary Hospital in Washington. The building was the former Georgetown Female Seminary, a girls' school that the Union army converted into a medical facility as wounded men arrived in the capital. Photographed in 1865 by James F. Gibson, the image was made from a glass wet collodion negative, and its stiff, deliberate poses reflect the long exposures of the period. It belongs to a body of work documenting the war's medical side, a subject that photographers pictured far less often than the battlefield.
| 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. 0808 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 | 1,712 × 1,362 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51958 |
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