| 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.
|
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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.
|
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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.) |
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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 |
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5779.F.6x |
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5779.F.10a |
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5779.F.10l |
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5779.F.17c |
|
5779.F.17e |
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5779.F.24a |
