[Susie King Taylor, known as the first African American Army nurse]
Boston : Published by the author, 1902 [from a photograph taken earlier]
1 photograph : halftone photomechanical print ; sheet 19 x 13 cm.
Notes:
Illus. in: Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. volunteers, by Susie King Taylor, with illustrations. Boston : Published by the author, 1902, frontispiece.
Title devised by Library staff.
Photograph shows portrait of Susie King Taylor, who served more than three years as nurse with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, although officially enrolled as a laundress. She also taught children and adults to read while serving with the regiment.
Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074)
Purchased from: Chris Foard, The Foard Collection of Civil War Nursing, July 2018.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Taylor, Susie King,--1848-1912.
United States.--Army.--Colored Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1864-1866)--People.
African Americans--Military service--1860-1870.
African Americans--Women.
Nurses.
Teachers.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel.
Format: Book illustrations--1900-1910.
Halftone photomechanical prints--1900-1910.
Portrait photographs--1900-1910.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.57593
Call Number: Illus. in E492.94 33d T
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Moulton, J. C.,, photographer.
[Helen L. Gilson, Civil War nurse and head of the Colored Hospital Service, half length portrait, seated] J.C. Moulton, Fitchburg.
[Fitchburg, Massachusetts] : [J.C. Moulton], [between 1861 and 1865]
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; plate 82 x 70 mm (sixth plate format), case 94 x 81 mm +
Notes:
Case: Leather; floral design.
Text on manuscript fragment (torn envelope): Miss Helen L. Gilson, care Sanitary Commission, Washington, D.C., Potomac Creek Hospital, 2d Division, 3d Army Corps." DLC
Text on second manuscript affixed inside case behind photograph: "Jan'y 1863, nurse Sanitary Com., nurse in this hospital." DLC
Title devised by Library staff.
Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information see: (www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html)
Photograph shows portrait of Helen Louise Gilson, also known as Helen Louise Gilson Osgood, who cared for wounded and dying soldiers at battles including Yorktown, Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Petersburg and advocated for a better hospital for African American soldiers and the creation the Colored Hospital Service, of which she became the head until the end of the war.
Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074)
Purchased from: Chris Foard, The Foard Collection of Civil War Nursing, July 2018.
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Gilson, Helen Louise,--1835-1868.
Nurses--Union--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical aspects--Union.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women--Union.
Format: Daguerreotypes--1860-1870.
Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 95861318
Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519
More information about this collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.57123
Call Number: DAG no. 1526
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Gardner, James,, 1832-, photographer.
Hospital at Fredericksburg, Va., May 1864
Hartford, Conn. : The War Photograph & Exhibition Company, No. 21 Linden Place, [1864 May, printed later]
1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen, stereograph ; 10 x 18 cm.
Notes:
From series: 1861 Photographic War History -- The War for the Union 1865.
No. 740.
Title from item.
Photograph shows soldiers outside a brick hospital building in Fredericksburg, Virginia, recovering from wounds received during the battles in the "Wilderness campaign."
Woman seated in doorway is volunteer nurse Abby Hopper Gibbons from New York City (Source: descendant Angela Schear, Oct. 2013)
Forms part of: Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eaton collection).
Exhibited: "The Universal Archive : The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia" at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), 2008-2009.
Subjects:
Hospitals--Virginia--Fredericksburg--1860-1870.
War casualties--Union--Virginia--Fredericksburg--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties--Union.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical aspects--Union.
Format: Albumen prints--1860-1870.
Stereographs--1860-1870.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18952
Call Number: LOT 4180, no. 201
Tags: Library of Congress dc:identifier=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18952 Abby Hopper Gibbons nurse Civil War
Rees & Minnis,, photographer.
[Otelia Butler Mahone with child, probably daughter, Otelia]
[1871?]
1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (carte de visite format)
Notes:
Photograph shows portrait of Otelia Butler Mahone, Civil War nurse at hospitals in Richmond, Virginia, and wife of Confederate Major General William Mahone, with child, probably daughter Otelia.
Title devised by Library staff.
Date based on approximate age of daughter (born 1869) and years Edwin Rees and George Minnis appeared in Petersburg city directory (1870-1872).
Notation on verso: "Otelia Mahone." DLC
Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074)
Purchased from: Chris Foard, The Foard Collection of Civil War Nursing, July 2018.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Mahone, Otelia Butler,--1835-1911.
Mahone, Otelia,--1869-1935.
Nurses--Confederate.
Women--1870-1880.
Girls--1870-1880.
Families--1870-1880.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical aspects--Confederate.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
Format: Group portraits--1870-1880.
Portrait photographs--1870-1880.
Albumen prints--1870-1880.
Cartes de visite--1870-1880.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.57157
Call Number: LOT 14043-2, no. 1057
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Lenthall, H., 1820-1897,, photographer.
[Florence Nightingale]
[London] : [H. Lenthall, successor to Mr. Kilburn, 222 Regent Street London], [ca. 1856, printed between 1862 and 1877]
1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 11 x 7 cm (carte de visite format)
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Photograph shows portrait of the founder of modern nursing who served as an inspiration for American nurses in the Civil War.
Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074)
Purchased from: Chris Foard, The Foard Collection of Civil War Nursing, July 2018.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Nightingale, Florence,--1820-1910.
Nurses--1850-1860.
Format: Albumen prints--1860-1880.
Cartes de visite--1860-1880.
Portrait photographs--1850-1860.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.57163
Call Number: LOT 14043-2, no. 1060
Tags: Library of Congress dc:identifier=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.57163