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Washington D.C. Patients in ward of Harewood Hospital; mosquito nets over beds – Historic Reproduction

Washington D.C. Patients in ward of Harewood Hospital; mosquito nets over beds, 1860 — historic photograph
Washington D.C. Patients in ward of Harewood Hospital; mosquito nets over beds, 1860. 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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Few hospital views from Washington show nets draped over the beds, which is what sets this stereograph apart. The nets were a defense against mosquitoes in a city built on low, marshy ground along the Potomac, where malaria and other fevers were common. The record credits James F. Gibson, a photographer who later worked on Civil War views, and dates the image to 1860, although the Library of Congress catalogs it with the war's photographs. Harewood Hospital became a Union facility during the war, so the scene offers a glimpse of the wards that would soon fill with wounded and sick soldiers.

Created / published1860
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. 0804 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Medical aspects. Hospitals.United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,734 × 1,370 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-51960

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