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McClellan Hospital, ward 14. [graphic].
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Creator
Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer.
Contributor
Hagaman, M.S. distributor.
Title
McClellan Hospital, ward 14. [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1863
Date
ca. 1863
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 25 x 30 cm. (9.5 x 11.5 in.)
Description
Shows a heavily decorated patient ward at the Civil War hospital established in February 1863 at Germantown Avenue and Cayuga Street in Nicetown. Two rows of recovering soldiers seated next to their beds line both sides of the ward. Decorations include streamers, flags, lace bedspreads, flowers, framed pictures, and patriotic statements of affirmation painted on the walls. Also shows a row of heaters down the middle of the floor.
Notes
Title from manuscript note on verso.
Attributed to John Moran.
Distributor's label pasted on verso: From M.S. Hagaman's photograph & ivorytype rooms, No. 936 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Hagaman operated from 936 Arch Street from 1863 to 1868.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
McClellan General Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Military hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hospital wards -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hospital patients -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Decorations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Cayuga Street.
Nicetown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Printer
Hagaman, M.S. (Moses S.), distributor.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Moran - McClellan [P.8979.11]
Accession number
P.8979.11
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