Hampton Va. Chesapeake Hospital and grounds – 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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Step back in time with Hampton Va. Chesapeake Hospital and grounds, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hampton Va. Chesapeake Hospital and grounds
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Hampton, Virginia, on the Chesapeake Bay near Fort Monroe, became a Union base early in the Civil War, and this stereograph records the hospital and grounds there. The image was made as a glass negative using the wet collodion process, which required photographers to coat and expose plates before they dried. Photographer James F. Gibson made it, and its paired views were meant to be seen through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. The catalog gives the date as 1860, which is earlier than the war, so that date is worth checking against the wartime subject.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph 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. 0578 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. Hampton (Va.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865 Hospitals.United States--Virginia--Hampton. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,748 × 1,360 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51907 |
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