St. John's Guild. Bathroom on floating hospital – Historic 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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St. John's Guild. Bathroom on floating hospital 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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St. John's Guild. Bathroom on floating hospital
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The subject here is the bathroom aboard St. John's Guild's floating hospital, a vessel that carried sick and poorly housed New York children onto the water in summer, when the city's crowded tenements were at their hottest and most dangerous. Its washing facilities were central to the work, since bathing children was part of the care that a floating hospital offered. The Bain News Service, which made this glass negative, was a commercial press agency that photographed New York's institutions and news for newspapers, so the image reflects the press's interest in urban charity. The record does not give a date, but the photograph is a useful view of how reformers in this period paired medicine with cleanliness and fresh air.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10350 |
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