Lot of 11 albumen photographs related to Civil War hospitals and medical care, including a 5.5 x 7.5 in. oval photograph of an ambulance; an image of a surgeon and his assistant posed as if performing an amputation on a wounded soldier, captioned U.S. Laboratory, 6th & Oxford, Philadelphia 1865, 5.5 x 7.75 in.; a similarly sized photograph of a US Army hospital tent supply chest; and a 10 x 13 in. album page with four photographs on each side, showing a battlefield stretcher, an illustration of the grounds of the 1864 Philadelphia Great Central Sanitary Fair, interior and exterior views of Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia, illustrations of the Chambersburg Presbyterian Church and Camp Wetheral, where the 9th Pennsylvania was quartered in Sept. 1862, and views of Philadelphia's Fairmount Water Works and an unidentified house. Condition: Mock amputation and medical chest photographs excellent. Ambulance photo with light splotches near the outside edge. Album page with chipped edges, light soiling, and a few scattered minor stains.
Lot of 11 albumen photographs related to Civil War hospitals and medical care, including a 5.5 x 7.5 in. oval photograph of an ambulance; an image of a surgeon and his assistant posed as if performing an amputation on a wounded soldier, captioned U.S. Laboratory, 6th & Oxford, Philadelphia 1865, 5.5 x 7.75 in.; a similarly sized photograph of a US Army hospital tent supply chest; and a 10 x 13 in. album page with four photographs on each side, showing a battlefield stretcher, an illustration of the grounds of the 1864 Philadelphia Great Central Sanitary Fair, interior and exterior views of Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia, illustrations of the Chambersburg Presbyterian Church and Camp Wetheral, where the 9th Pennsylvania was quartered in Sept. 1862, and views of Philadelphia's Fairmount Water Works and an unidentified house. Condition: Mock amputation and medical chest photographs excellent. Ambulance photo with light splotches near the outside edge. Album page with chipped edges, light soiling, and a few scattered minor stains.
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