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South Street Hospital, 24th and South streets, Philadelphia. [graphic].
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Contributor
McAllister, John A., 1822-1896, collector.
Title
South Street Hospital, 24th and South streets, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1863
Date
ca. 1863
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description
Interior view of the Civil War hospital. Shows convalescing soldiers, seated, in opposite rows, along the walls of a ward. A few men, possibly hospital attendants, stand among the patients. South Street Hospital was also known as "stump hospital" given the large number of amputations performed at the facility.
Notes
Title from manuscript note on mount: Hospital 24th & South.
White mount with square corners.
Created postfreeze.
Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of materials of Civil War Views, Places & Events.
Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 53.
Arcadia caption text: Recuperating soldiers are seated in opposite rows lining the walls of a ward in the South Street Hospital. Located at Twenty-fourth and South streets, this Civil War hospital was sometimes referred to as “stump hospital” because of the large number of amputations performed there.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
South Street Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Military hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hospital patients -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
South Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2400 block.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance:
McAllister, John A., (John Allister) 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Hospitals [5779.F.14a]
Accession number
5779.F.14a
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