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Washington D.C. Central office of the Sanitary Commission 1333 F Street N.W. – Antique Photo Print

Washington D.C. Central office of the Sanitary Commission 1333 F Street N.W., 1865 — historic photograph
Washington D.C. Central office of the Sanitary Commission 1333 F Street N.W., 1865. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Washington D.C. Central office of the Sanitary Commission 1333 F Street N.W. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Few addresses in wartime Washington were busier than the central office of the U.S. Sanitary Commission at 1333 F Street Northwest, recorded here in 1865 by Mathew Brady. The commission was a privately run relief agency, founded in 1861, that raised money and supplies and pushed for better hygiene, food, and nursing for Union soldiers, working alongside the Army's medical department. Brady's wet collodion glass negative captures the building as the war was nearing its end, when the commission's Washington headquarters was still coordinating a far-flung relief network.

Created / published1865
Medium1 negative : glass wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0809 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Brady Mathew B. 1823 (ca.)-1896 photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865.United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,680 × 1,330 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-52861

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