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Walter Reed Hospital, [Washington, D.C.], nurses home – Historic Print

Walter Reed Hospital, [Washington, D.C.], nurses home, [between 1916 and 1917] — historic photograph
Walter Reed Hospital, [Washington, D.C.], nurses home, [between 1916 and 1917]. 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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A window into the past: Walter Reed Hospital, [Washington, D.C.], nurses home, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Walter Reed Hospital, [Washington, D.C.], nurses home

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Few hospital names in Washington carry as much history as Walter Reed, the Army physician whose 1900 yellow fever research showed that mosquitoes spread the disease. This view shows the nurses' home on the hospital grounds, recorded on an 8 by 6 inch glass negative by the National Photo Company, which documented the capital's buildings and institutions in the years around the First World War. The streaks and blemishes on the glass come from the gradual deterioration of its original coating, and they give the image a soft, aged character.

Created / published[between 1916 and 1917]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan7,106 × 5,471 px · prints to 24 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-262142

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