Washington D.C. Ruins of Kalorama Hospital 23d and S Streets NW – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 Washington D.C. Ruins of Kalorama Hospital 23d and S Streets NW, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington D.C. Ruins of Kalorama Hospital 23d and S Streets NW
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The picture shows the ruins of Kalorama Hospital at 23rd and S Streets NW in Washington, D.C., a site that the record ties to the Civil War hospital system. By 1865 the city held dozens of Union hospitals that treated wounded and sick soldiers, and many were temporary wooden wards built on the edge of town. Photographer James F. Gibson made this wet collodion glass negative that year, and his view of a shattered hospital site reminds viewers that the war's medical burden fell on Washington as well as the battlefields. The image is a useful record of how quickly these institutions were built, used, and abandoned.
| 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. 0807 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 | 1,714 × 1,360 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51961 |
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