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Title: Nursing in union hospitals U.S. Sanitary Commission. U.S. Christian Commission
Description: Interior of a Union hospital depicting women nurses attending to wounded soldiers. In the center, a white man soldier lies in bed while three white women nurses, attired in head kerchieves, long-sleeved dresses, and sashes that reads, "Union," help adjust his pillow, kneel and pour a glass of water from a pitcher, and carry a tray. In the right background is a row of beds with two wounded soldiers. In the left, a white man soldier, attired in a uniform with a sash that reads, "Union," walks into the hospital carrying his coat. In the left and right, wooden chairs hold back curtains decorated with stars from the American flag. A framed portrait of a white man and a coat hangs on the wall. Also shows, in the center foreground, a basket of flasks laying on the floor., Title from item., Publication information and date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1865 by W.S. Williams & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.43]

Title: Birds-eye view of Andersonville Prison from the south-east
Description: Birds-eye view of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war-camp in Georgia, with the vast prison area surrounded by stockade fences. In the center are numerous prisoners and their hand-made housing, consisting of various fabrics and mounds of dirt. Guard towers surround the fence and guards, on foot, horseback, and in horse-drawn carts patrol. In the right, men, many of whom use canes or crutches and have amputated legs sit, lie down, or walk in a separate fenced area that has tents. Two cannon emplacements with soldiers are visible in the foreground. Several buildings and a train traveling down the railroad tracks are visible in the background. The prison operated from February 1864 until April 1865. It housed up to 45,000 Union prisoners in overcrowded conditions and had the highest death rate of all the Civil War prisons., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright, 1890 by J.W. Morton, Jr., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: Morton, J. W, Jr.
Date: 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Civil War - Prisons [P.2011.45.4]

Title: Libby Prison in war times
Description: View of Libby Prison, a Confederate prison in Richmond, Va. and showing Union prisoners in front of tents and a large building. In the foreground are six tents, one labeled "C.S.A." Men, including one with his arm in a sling, stand and walk between the tents. In the background is the brick, three-story prison building, converted from a grocery warehouse and with a sign that reads, "Libby & Sons Ship Chandlers & Grocers." A group of men stand in front of the building. In the left, men in uniform stand in formation. Libby Prison held Union officers and operated from March 1862 until April 1865. The overcrowded prison had harsh conditions and a high mortality rate., Title from the item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1889 by Charles Pollock., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date: 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Prisons [P.2011.45.6]

Title: Target firing State Fencibles, Capt. J. Page, the seat of Dr. William Wetherill, Fatland (near Valley Forge) Montgomery Co. Pa. June 14th 1859
Description: Scene showing the State Fencibles militia marching past the Wetherill mansion on the Fatland estate. The men march in seven lines, led by the Fencibles marching band, followed by officers, and then four lines of enlisted men fronted by a single Fencible. All the men wear uniforms and the officers wear Hardee hats, while the enlisted men wear tall, bearskin hats. In the left foreground, a group of well-dressed men, women, and children watch the militia. In the background, other guests line the portico and verandas of the mansion. near clusters of Fencibles and spectators lining the grounds in front of the mansion. The scene also includes the trees and bushes that surround the grounds and mansion. During the 1850s, Dr. Wetherill, partner in the Wetherill & Brother White Lead Works, annually invited the Fencibles to his estate for spring target firing. The June 1859 excursion included seventy-four muskets and five officers, a lunch, dinner, and dance. The State Fencibles was a military organization raised in Philadelphia in 1813 as part of the Pennsylvania militia. In 1871, the military company, recruited under James Page, became attached to the Eighth Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania. The Fatland seat was owned by gentleman William Bakewell beginning in 1803 before being sold to the Wetherill Family about 1821 and his death. Fatland, named for the estate's great soil fertility, remained in the Wetherill family through the early 20th century., Title from item., Date inferred from date of event depicted., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 292, Gift of David Doret., Trimmed., Title clipped and pasted on sheet with manuscript note mounted below image: To Capt. J. W. Ryan Compliments of [Chas Marshall D. Co's N.G.?] Pa., Trimmed., See Thomas S. Lanard, One hundred years with the State Fencibles : a history of the First Company State Fencibles ... (Philadelphia: Nields Co., 1913), 115-116.
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - A-Z - State [P.2017.15.17]

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