City Point Va. Tents of the general hospital – 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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A window into the past: City Point Va. Tents of the general hospital, 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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City Point Va. Tents of the general hospital
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City Point, Virginia, served as the Union Army's main supply base and port during the Petersburg siege in 1864, and this view turns to the rows of tents that made up its general hospital. The photograph was taken by James F. Gibson, a Washington photographer who worked with the Union army's camps and depots during the war, using a wet collodion glass negative. Hospitals like this one, set up near the James River landing, received wounded men shipped up from the fighting around Petersburg, so the orderly lines of canvas show a medical system struggling to keep pace with the casualties.
| 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. 0402 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. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Hospitals.United States--Virginia--City Point. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,712 × 1,350 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51943 |
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