Washington D.C. Douglas Hospital (formerly Minnesota row) 2d and I 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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Washington D.C. Douglas Hospital (formerly Minnesota row) 2d and I Streets NW comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Washington D.C. Douglas Hospital (formerly Minnesota row) 2d and I Streets NW
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Few Civil War hospital views show the buildings themselves as clearly as this one, which records the Douglas Hospital at Second and I Streets NW in Washington. The site was known as Minnesota Row, a name that points to the state-funded barracks and row buildings that were converted to medical use as the wounded flooded into the capital in 1864. The negative is a wet collodion glass plate made by James F. Gibson, one of the working photographers who documented the city during the war. Washington's hospitals grew into a network of several dozen institutions by then, so this view is useful for seeing how ordinary buildings were adapted for the sick and injured.
| 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. 0800 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 | 1,696 × 1,350 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51953 |
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