Washington Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1919 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Washington Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1919. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Walter Reed Hospital
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Washington Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1919
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Walter Reed Army Hospital in northwest Washington, D.C., photographed in 1919, was named for Major Walter Reed, the Army surgeon whose yellow fever experiments had helped establish how the disease spread. The hospital had opened only a decade earlier, and in 1918 and 1919 its wards filled with soldiers stricken by the influenza pandemic, along with men returning wounded or ill from the fighting in France. The Armistice of November 1918 ended the war, but the hospital's work continued through the demobilization that followed, when many servicemen passed through Army medical care before going home. For Washingtonians, the grounds were a familiar landmark on the city's northern edge.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | markel, s. i. (samuel irvin) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Washington, D.C. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,214 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Walter Reed Hospital |
| Reference | DC Washington Walter Reed Hospital 1919 |
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