Washington D.C. Chapel and other buildings of Armory Square Hospital 6th and B Inde – Historic Photo 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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This rare historic photograph captures Washington D.C. Chapel and other buildings of Armory Square Hospital 6th and B Inde 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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Washington D.C. Chapel and other buildings of Armory Square Hospital 6th and B Inde
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Armory Square Hospital was one of the largest Union hospitals in Washington, D.C., and this view records its chapel and surrounding wards at the corner of 6th and B Streets. The negative is a wet collodion glass plate from 1865, the last full year of the Civil War, made by photographer James F. Gibson. Armory Square opened in 1862 in buildings near the Armory grounds and grew into a sprawling complex of wooden pavilion wards that treated wounded soldiers arriving by river and rail. Gibson's careful record of the grounds shows how the hospital was laid out, with its ordinary frame buildings standing in for a much larger medical effort.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0798 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Medical aspects. Hospitals.United States--District of Columbia--Washington. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,680 × 1,360 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51951 |
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