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Keedysville Md. vicinity. Smiths barn used as a hospital after the battle of Antiet – Historic Print

Keedysville Md. vicinity. Smiths barn used as a hospital after the battle of Antiet, 1862 — historic photograph
Keedysville Md. vicinity. Smiths barn used as a hospital after the battle of Antiet, 1862. Historic photograph from the Barns & Farms collection.

(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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This rare historic photograph captures Keedysville Md. vicinity. Smiths barn used as a hospital after the battle of Antiet in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Keedysville Md. vicinity. Smiths barn used as a hospital after the battle of Antiet

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Keedysville, a village in Washington County, Maryland, was close enough to the fighting at Antietam that its barns and houses filled with wounded men after the battle in September 1862. This stereograph shows one of them, a Smith family barn that was turned into a hospital. Photographer David B. Woodbury worked in the area in the weeks after the battle, when the wounded were still being moved from the fields. The wet collodion glass negative records the arrangement of the building and the scene around it, a reminder of how quickly ordinary farm buildings became medical facilities.

Created / published1862
Medium1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0136 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Medical aspects. Antietam Battle of Md. 1862. Hospitals.United States--Maryland--Keedysville.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,844 × 1,368 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46096

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