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- Title
- [Goodwill Fire Company's horse-drawn ambulance in front of the company fire station on Race Street below Broad Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing an ambulance probably used to transport woundeded Civl War soldiers. Also shows a group of children in the background, including a young girl holding a baby. Company founded March 27, 1802., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (8)1322.F.6b., Paper backing pasted on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
- Date
- 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Fires & fire fighting [(8)1322.F.5b-1]
- Title
- [Hope Fire Company horse-drawn ambulance in front of the company fire station on Sixth Street below Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Shows ambulance, probably used to transport wounded, Civil War soldiers, adorned with patriot images and slogans including an eagle, flags, and "Union For Ever." Three boys stand near the ambulance. Company founded November 22, 1796., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: Hope Ambulance Phila., Yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Paper baking pasted on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
- Date
- 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Fires & fire fighting [(8)1322.F.5d-1]
- Title
- Views of a U.S. Army Hospital Department No. 9 ambulance in a lumber yard, probably in Washington, D.C
- 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., 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.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- 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]
- Title
- Woman's mission
- Description
- Genre print showing Union women volunteers, in plain clothes, aiding soldiers within a tent. In the central foreground, a seated volunteer comforts a soldier, lying in a cot, his head bandaged, and a pen and paper resting on his blanket. The aid worker pats him with one hand and holds a book in the other. Across from the soldier's knapsack, rifle, and tin cup, a dog watches nearby, his head resting on the soldiers blanketed legs. In the right, another young woman volunteer stands with a basket over her arm. In the left, an older volunteer offers a bowl of food to another soldier, still in uniform, and also lying on a cot under a window flap. Also shows crates of supplies of the "Ladies Aid Mission" piled and open. In the left background, male aid workers assisting soldiers on the grounds are visible through the tent opening., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., Artist's signature lower left., To the patriotic and benevolent ladies of the Union who by their devoted services aided their country in its trying hour and comforted its brave defenders this print is respectfully dedicated., Passage from Sir Walter Scott's "Marimon Canto vi. Stanza 30" printed below the image: Oh woman in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy and hard to please, and variable as the shade. By the light quivering aspen made, when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou., Gift of David Doret.
- Creator
- Walter, Adam B., 1820-1875, engraver
- Date
- 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Hospitals - W [P.2009.17.7]