Washington D.C. Band before officers quarters at Harewood Hospital – Antique 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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Washington D.C. Band before officers quarters at Harewood Hospital comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington D.C. Band before officers quarters at Harewood Hospital
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A military band posed in front of the officers' quarters at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C., in 1864, and that setting is what makes this view unusual. Harewood was one of the many hospitals the Union Army established in and around the capital to treat wounded and sick soldiers, and the city held dozens of such facilities by the middle of the war. The photograph was taken by James F. Gibson, a Washington photographer, using the wet collodion glass-negative process of the period, which required long exposures and so tends to render groups like this one stiffly posed. Bands were common at military installations, where they played for ceremonies, funerals and the recreation of convalescing men.
| Created / published | 1864 |
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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. 0803 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--Military personnel. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Medical aspects. Military bands. Hospitals.United States--District of Columbia--Washington. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,698 × 1,352 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51949 |
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