Washington D.C. Group before office of U.S. Christian Commission 8th and H Sts. NW – 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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Washington D.C. Group before office of U.S. Christian Commission 8th and H Sts. NW
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Men stand in a group before the office of the U.S. Christian Commission at Eighth and H Streets NW in Washington, photographed in 1865, the year the Civil War ended. The commission was a Protestant volunteer relief organization founded in 1861. It sent food, clothing, reading material and hospital visitors to soldiers in camps and army hospitals. The picture is a glass wet collodion negative credited to Mathew B. Brady, whose Washington studio recorded much of the war. That process required the photographer to coat, expose and develop each plate while it was still wet, which made field and street work slow and demanding.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0815 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Brady Mathew B. 1823 (ca.)-1896 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865.United States--District of Columbia--Washington. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,674 × 1,356 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52865 |
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