Washington District of Columbia. Interior of ward in Harewood Hospital – 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 District of Columbia. Interior of ward in Harewood Hospital in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington District of Columbia. Interior of ward in Harewood Hospital
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This view shows the inside of a ward at Harewood Hospital, one of the Union Army's general hospitals in and around Washington, D.C., photographed in 1864. By then the city had become a major medical center, with dozens of hospitals treating soldiers wounded in campaigns across Virginia and Maryland. The picture was made by David B. Woodbury, a Washington photographer, using the wet collodion process on glass, which required the plate to be coated and exposed before it dried. Its stereograph format meant it was taken as a pair of near-identical images, designed to be seen in three dimensions through a viewer. Views like this one give a rare look at the rows of beds and daily routines of wartime care.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Interior ward in Harewood Hospital D.C. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,139 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51610 |
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