Washington D.C. Hospital tents in rear of Douglas Hospital – Historic 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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A window into the past: Washington D.C. Hospital tents in rear of Douglas Hospital, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Washington D.C. Hospital tents in rear of Douglas Hospital
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Few views of Civil War medical care in Washington show the grounds behind the buildings, and this 1864 wet collodion glass negative does exactly that, recording a row of hospital tents in the rear of Douglas Hospital. The photographer, James F. Gibson, was a Washington-based Civil War photographer whose work documented the city's sprawling network of military hospitals as the wounded arrived in growing numbers. Douglas Hospital was one of many such facilities ringing the capital, where canvas wards were often pitched to take in overflow when permanent buildings filled. The image gives a sense of how the war's medical burden spilled out of brick walls and into the open ground.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0801 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Medical aspects. Hospitals.United States--District of Columbia--Washington. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,712 × 1,362 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51956 |
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