Washington District of Columbia. The home of the Sanitary Commission – Historic Photograph 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 District of Columbia. The home of the Sanitary Commission
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Few Washington buildings tied the Union war effort to civilian volunteers as directly as the headquarters of the United States Sanitary Commission, pictured here in a glass negative by David B. Woodbury. Founded in 1861, the commission was a private relief organization that raised money and supplies, inspected camps and hospitals, and pressed the Army to improve sanitation, which mattered because disease killed more Union soldiers than combat did. Woodbury, a Washington photographer who died in 1866, documented many scenes of the wartime capital, and the wet collodion process behind this negative was the standard method of the era, requiring photographers to coat, expose and develop plates quickly.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Sanitary Commission office 1865 Washington D.C. Miller vol. 7 p. 331. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,101 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51653 |
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