Cliffburne Hospital, Washington, D.C. – Antique 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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A window into the past: Cliffburne Hospital, Washington, D.C., preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Cliffburne Hospital, Washington, D.C.
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Cliffburne Hospital is shown here as a field of white canvas tents, drawn from a high vantage point so that every ward and walkway is visible at once. Issued in New York by Charles Magnus around 1862, the lithograph belongs to a popular series of bird's-eye views that showed Union military installations to an audience eager to see the war's home front. Washington filled with sick and wounded soldiers after the early battles of 1861 and 1862, and tent hospitals like this one were a common answer to the crowding. The print is worth studying for its layout, which reveals how the wards were arranged and how much ground the medical care of a single army required.
| Created / published | New York : Charles Magnus, c1862. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithogaph, color. |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Copyright by Charles Magnus. |
| Subjects | Military hospitals--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870. Tents--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical aspects--Washington (D.C.) |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,099 × 4,099 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226459 |
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