Washington D.C. Buildings of the Sanitary Commission Home Lodge for Invalid Soldier – Antique Photo 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. Buildings of the Sanitary Commission Home Lodge for Invalid Soldier in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Washington D.C. Buildings of the Sanitary Commission Home Lodge for Invalid Soldier
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Few pictures in this gallery show the medical side of the war as directly as this 1865 view of a Sanitary Commission lodge for invalid soldiers in Washington, D.C. The United States Sanitary Commission was a privately run relief organization that supported sick and wounded troops alongside the army's own medical department. Lodges like this one gave disabled and recovering men a place to rest, get care, and wait for travel or discharge while the capital's hospitals filled with casualties. The glass wet-collodion negative was made by photographer James F. Gibson, who worked in Washington during the war.
| 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. 0811 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 | 1,722 × 1,362 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51950 |
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