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Washington D.C. Staff buildings and wagons of the Medical Department – Historic Photograph Print

Washington D.C. Staff buildings and wagons of the Medical Department, 1865 — historic photograph
Washington D.C. Staff buildings and wagons of the Medical Department, 1865. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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Step back in time with Washington D.C. Staff buildings and wagons of the Medical Department, a historic photograph rich in period 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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Washington D.C. Staff buildings and wagons of the Medical Department

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Few pictures from the Civil War capital show the unglamorous machinery of the war as plainly as this one, which turns the camera on the supply side of the Union army: the Medical Department's staff buildings and the wagons parked beside them in Washington, D.C. Mathew Brady's studio is credited with the glass wet-collodion negative, a process that demanded a sensitized plate exposed and developed on the spot. Taken in 1865, the year the war ended, the view records how much the medical service had grown to care for a wartime army and its sick and wounded.

Created / published1865
Medium1 negative : glass wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0731 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Brady Mathew B. 1823 (ca.)-1896 photographer.
SubjectsWashington (D.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865 United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865.United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,682 × 1,350 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-52870

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