Details
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Views of a U.S. Army Hospital Department No. 9 ambulance in a lumber yard, probably in Washington, D.C [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date [ca. 1863]
Physical Description 7 photographic print: 6 albumen on stereograph mount; 1 albumen; 9 x 16 cm.(3.25 x 6.25 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of views showing the two-wheeled Finley ambulance wagon displayed in front of a draped pile of lumber; while attended by an ambulance driver and occupied by men posed as casualties; and parked with closed flaps near medics carrying a stretcher between one of the "causalities" on a flat gurney and a second one on a folded bed. Also shows piles of exposed lumber and nearby buildings in the background.
Notes One of images [ 5779.F.17c] accompanied by label with manuscript note: U.S. Army Ambulance.
Created postfreeze.
Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of materials related to the Cooper Shop and Union Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals and Civil War views.
Contains four stereographic prints on yellow mounts with square corners, 3 unmounted halves of stereographic prints and one half of a stereographic print on a white mount.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Ambulances -- Washington (D.C.)
Medical personnel -- Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties -- Washington (D.C.)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical aspects -- Washington (D.C.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereos - unidentified - non-Phila. - Washington, D.C. [5778.F.27b; 5779.F.6x;10a & l; 17c & e; 24a]
Accession number 5778.F.27b
5779.F.6x
5779.F.10a
5779.F.10l
5779.F.17c
5779.F.17e
5779.F.24a