Zouave ambulance crew demonstrating removal of wounded soldiers from the field – 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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This historic photograph of Zouave ambulance crew demonstrating removal of wounded soldiers from the field brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Zouave ambulance crew demonstrating removal of wounded soldiers from the field
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Rather than a battlefield scene, this photograph shows a Zouave-uniformed crew rehearsing how to lift and carry wounded men off the field, with the posed setup typical of the period's wet collodion glass negatives. Taken in 1862, the year Jonathan Letterman reorganized Union army medical services and the ambulance corps was being drilled and standardized, it records the training that was meant to speed care for casualties. Photographer David B. Woodbury, who worked in the Washington area, made the negative, and its handwritten and stamped numbers show how the Library of Congress catalogued it. The image is useful for seeing how military medicine was taught before the Civil War's most costly battles.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Manner of removing wounded from the field by ambulance. annotation handwritten in ink: 7381. 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 × 4,144 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51778 |
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