Scene on the Macedonian after the battle
Print shows a busy scene in the physician's quarters below deck on the HMS Macedonian where wounded sailors are being attended to by medical staff, some are having limbs amputated. Illus. from: Life and death ... More
Mary E. Walker. American Civil War 1861-1865.
Photograph showing Civil War surgeon Mary E. Walker in a full-length studio portrait, facing left, hand resting on a book.
Church in Murfreesboro, Tenn., now U.S. hospital
Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Helen L. Gilson - Public domain portrait print
Photograph shows reproduction of portrait print of Helen L. Gilson, also known as Helen Louise Gilson Osgood, who was a Union nurse in the Civil War. In album: Portraits of the Barton, Bigelow, Bullard, Buswel... More
Dr. McParlin - Public domain portrait drawing
Full-length portrait of seated military surgeon. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-87. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.851) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Sick call--Doctor Boyd - Public domain drawing
Sketch of the doctor and seven other figures. Inscribed upper right: 28. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.125) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
[William Wagner, a surgeon in the 24th Illinois Regiment, full-length ...
In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 42. Inscribed on item: 7 April, 1863. Color laser copy reference surrogate, showing front and back of photo, filed with finding aids for LOT 8751 in P&P Reading Room.
Surgical photograph ... prepared under the supervision of ... War Dep...
Photographs show men displaying the wounds received during the Civil War. Upper left: John Brink, Private, Company K, 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Surgical photo 208). Upper right: Sergeant Warden (Surgical photo... More
Civil War envelope showing woman nursing soldier with message "Lovely ...
Addressed to Mrs. F. Behymer, Shelbyville, Illinois ; postmarked Richmond, Kentucky ; bears 3 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Amberman Postal History, Clifton Park, New York,... More
[Sanitary commission barge at the docks, City Point, Virginia]
Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 2517. Public domain photograph of a locomotive, train car, railroad trucks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Surgical photograph ... prepared under the supervision of ... War Dep...
Photographs show two men displaying amputated leg wounds and two skulls with bullet holes. Upper right: skull of Edward Volk, private, Company D, 55th Ohio Volunteers (Surgical photo 212). Lower left: Eben Smit... More
Doctor Charles Fischer and Doctor Jean Allard Janson Jeançon at Camp W...
Title from: Blood shed in this war by M. Peake. N101 upper right corner. Title on mat (source unverified): Busy Doctors at Camp Wood 1861 Dr. Fischer and Dr. Janson 32nd Regt. Code on mat (source unverified): I... More
Civil War envelope showing soldier standing in front of American flag,...
Addressed to Arthur E. Whitney, care S.D. Whitney, Pittsfield, Lorain Co., Ohio ; postmarked Cleveland, Ohio, June 1862 ; bears 3 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Amberman Pos... More
Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital / J. Queen del. & lith...
Print shows receipt for donation of $20.00 from Master George Morton Moore to Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital in Philadelphia; decorated border shows soldiers marching past saloon and hospital a... More
Union volunteer refreshment saloon and hospital J. Queen del. & lith
Print shows a blank receipt for donations to the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital in Philadelphia; decorated border shows soldiers marching past saloon and hospital and amputee in hospital bed wi... More
U.S.A. General Hospital, McKim's Mansion, Baltimore, Md lith. & print ...
Print shows a Union hospital on the McKim mansion site looking southwest toward the city of Baltimore, Union troops stand at attention as a carriage departs. Men, women, and children stand, watching. Several bu... More
Reception of the wounded soldiers by the national authorities at Fortr...
After a sketch by J.H. Schell. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1862 Aug. 16, p. 332.
Nurse Mary A.E. Keen of Seminary Hospital, Washington, D.C., and Chesa...
Photograph shows identified Army nurse who worked from 1861 to 1865 under the jurisdiction of Dorothea Dix and later married Milton Woodworth. Notation in case behind photograph: "Mary A.E. Keen at about 27 ye... More
The old Harrison mansion--Harrison's landing James River
Group of soldiers relaxing around a house with signal towers mounted over chimneys. Title inscribed below image. Possibly by William Waud. Inscribed below title: The birth place of Wm. Henry Harrison now used a... More
Confederate hospital, Corinth, Mississippi, 1862, engraving, Library o...
Drawing shows a building on the campus of Corona Women's College used as Confederate hospital during the American Civil War, Corinth, Mississippi. This facility was burned by Union soldiers in 1864. Title from... More
Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia cor. of Broad ...
Drawing shows an exterior view of the hospital building from the street across, beyond the railroad tracks, with many pedestrians in front and along the side of the building, corner of Broad Street and Washingt... More
The floating hospital on the Mississippi / drawn by Mr. Theodore R. Da...
Views showing the steamboat Civil War naval hospital "Red Rover," a nursing "sister," a waterside grave, the convalescent ward, and the sick ward. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1863 May 9, p. 300.
Advantage of "famine prices" - Public domain portrait engraving
Cartoon showing a nurse about to give some quinine to a sickly boy who tells her that he wishes he was in Dixie because the cost of quinine is so high there that it would be unlikely she would waste it on him.
[Interior and exterior views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon...
Purchase; Marian Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.
Regimental hospital, 1863 - Public domain historic place drawing
Inscribed in pencil on lower left: Regimental hospital, 1863. Inscribed in pencil on building: Brick. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Doc... More
Seminary nr. Gettysburg used as a hospital, scene of Reynolds fight wi...
Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-143. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1070) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Citizens Volunteer Hospital - corner of Broad St. and Washington Ave. ...
Print shows an exterior view of the hospital building from the street across, beyond the railroad tracks, with locomotive approaching from the right, and with pedestrians and soldiers standing on sidewalk on th... More
Satterlee polka for the piano P.S. Duval & Son, Lith. Philadelphiada. ...
Print shows an elevated view from a distant hillside of the Satterlee U.S.A. General Hospital; also shows people resting and walking along a roadway through a wooded landscape toward the hospital. Caption cont... More
Citizens Volunteer Hospital - corner of Broad St. and Washington Ave. ...
Print shows an exterior view of the hospital building from the street across, beyond the railroad tracks, with locomotive approaching, and with pedestrians and soldiers standing on sidewalk on the side of the b... More
Camp scenes - an army drug store - the hospital steward / from a sketc...
Two men at a lean-to being used as a drugstore. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 Nov. 12, p. 117.
Wounded soldiers from the battles in the "Wilderness" at Fredericksbur...
Photo shows wounded soldiers resting outside of the Sanitary Commission depot in Fredericksburg. The woman seated in the doorway is volunteer nurse, Abby Gibbons of New York City (source: descendant Angela Sche... More
Field hospital, Second Army Corps, Brandy Station / negative by J. Gar...
Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 2, no. 54. Copyright by A. Gardner. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - Decemb... More
Songs of the War, by Private Miles O'Reilly / Lith. of Henry C. Eno, N...
Music cover showing five Civil War scenes, including three battle scenes, one hospital scene, and one of soldiers toasting in a dining room. No. 4.
Carrie Wilkins Pollard, Civil War nurse
Photograph shows identified nurse who served at U.S. field hospitals in Louisville, Kentucky, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and the Floating Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. Case: Rinhart, no. 175. Pension rec... More
The story of Gettysburg Music composed for the piano, respectfully ded...
Drawing for sheet music cover, published as A Message from the Battlefield, composed by Mark Hassler, shows wounded soldier surrounded by man, women, and a boy, with a bottle of Buchu on the bedside table.
Ambulance drill at Headquarters Army of Potomac, near Brandy Station, ...
No. 285. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Glass copy negatives are: LC-B811-1078-B and LC-B811-1078-D.
View of the hospital barracks at Fairfax Seminary after the gale, Marc...
Photograph shows collapsed hospital building at the General Hospital Headquarters for the Army of the Potomac at Fairfax Seminary, near Alexandria, Virginia. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased fr... More
Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia Instituted Sep...
Print shows an exterior view of the hospital building from the street across, beyond the railroad tracks, with many pedestrians in front and along the side of the building, corner of Broad Street and Washington... More
Lower half of right femur, with ball impacted above the inner condyle
Lower half of right femur of Private Orson B. Norwood, who was wounded July 15, 1863, in a skirmish near Jackson, Tennessee. Illus. in: Photographs of surgical cases and specimens / Prepared by [...] George A. ... More
Partially consolidated gunshot fracture of the upper third of the righ...
Photograph shows deformed leg of Private George Ruoss (or Roos?) of Company G, 7th New York Volunteers, who was wounded at South Side Railroad, near Petersburg, Virginia, on March 31, 1856, by a conoidal musket... More
The Public Health Nurse She answers humanity's call : Your Red Cross m...
American Red Cross membership drive poster showing a Public Health nurse on horseback.
Your money or his life Subscribe to the war fund - Red Cross week - Ju...
Poster showing a Red Cross nurse offering a wounded soldier a drink from a canteen. Issued by: Committee on Public Safety, State of New Hampshire.
The weaker sex? / Chamberlain. - Political cartoon, public domain imag...
Illustration shows a Red Cross nurse bandaging a wounded soldier on a battlefield. Caption: "Woman's place is in the home" Anti-Suffragists. Illus. in: Puck, v. 76, no. 1966 (1914 November 7), p. 5 (bottom). ... More
The Red Cross serves humanity Join now / / C.W. Anderson.
Red Cross recruitment poster showing a Red Cross nurse seated at a desk, with her left arm raised.
American Red Cross serves humanity Join! / / Lawrence Wilbur.
American Red Cross membership drive poster showing a Red Cross nurse holding a large red cross.
"Help!" - World War I poster - Drawing. Public domain image.
Red Cross recruitment poster showing a Red Cross nurse dragging a wounded soldier from the battlefield.
"They need us over there" 1000 graduate nurses a week for eight weeks ...
American Red Cross recruitment poster showing a three-quarter length portrait of a nurse. Poster caption continues: Apply to the American Red Cross.
Ambulance Corps leaving Columbus, New Mex. for Mexico in search for Vi...
Photograph shows procession of soldiers on horseback and horse-drawn ambulance wagons. J213016 U.S. Copyright Office.
Base Hospital, Camp Custer, Mich., Panoramic Photograph
J227589 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; T. F. Mock; December 31, 1917; DLC/PP-1918:45626.
You, in her thoughts - Public domain portrait print
Poster showing a contemplative young woman, a family group, and a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox extolling male virginity before marriage to prevent health problems related to sexually transmitted diseases. This p... More
Service - Surgical dressings for war relief / Thomas Tryon.
Poster showing a nurse above the flags of the Allies. Border features medical supplies, labeled: drains, compresses, bath mitt, elbow rest, tampon, bed sock, bandages, fracture pillow.
Join the Red Cross and on Christmas eve a candle in every window, a se...
Poster showing a Red Cross banner and a candle in a window with a Christmas tree in the background.
Read these facts about your American Red Cross Its purpose, to care fo...
Poster is text only, with red cross. Text continues: An all American, largely volunteer organization - authorized by Congress, headed by President Wilson, its accounts audited by the War Department, enthusiasti... More
A little starving child brought back to life, because you went without...
Poster shows a large red cross. Form N Y 1 - Second War Fund. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Help your Red Cross "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least...
Poster showing Christ, a Red Cross, and a cathedral looming over a scene of ruins and casualties where a Red Cross nurse is helping.
They fight for you - protect them Help the Red Cross raise $100,000,00...
Poster showing Liberty, modeled on the well-known statue complete with upraised torch, offering a Red Cross shield to a wounded soldier.
In the name of mercy give! / Albert Herter.
Poster showing a Red Cross nurse holding a wounded soldier. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
If you knew a day's pay would save a life, would you give one day a mo...
Poster shows a large red cross. Form N Y 2 - Second War Fund. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Think what you can afford to give, then double it--A life may depend o...
Poster shows a large red cross. Form N Y 4 - Second War Fund. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
While someone gives his life, what are you giving? Think a minute All ...
Poster shows a large red cross. Form N Y 3 - Second War Fund. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Help the Red Cross / Herman Roeg.
Poster showing a Red Cross nurse holding a wounded soldier as she signals for help. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Save the Serbians from cholera / Boardman Robinson.
Poster showing a figure of Death reaching down from storm clouds to menace a devastated populace.
Base Hospital, Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky.
J231160 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Louisville. Copyright deposit; Caufield & Shook; August 26, 1918; DLC\PP-1918:45890.
Officers, nurses, and hospital corps, Base Hospital, Camp MacArthur, W...
J230545 U.S. Copyright Office Title transcribed from item. Copyright claimant's address: Waco. Photographic print is cropped at left, and possibly at bottom. Copyright deposit, Fred A. Gildersleeve, July 6, 191... More
Dedication of Red Cross Convalescent House, Base Hospital, Camp MacArt...
J230546 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Fred A. Gildersleeve; July 6, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45879. Copyright claimant's address: Waco. Image duplicates PAN US MILITARY - Army, no. 145. Bottom of image has ... More
We need you / Albert Sterner 1918.
Poster showing a Red Cross nurse appealing to a young woman for help, as another nurse tends to a wounded man.
Dedication of Red Cross Convalescent House, Base Hospital, Camp MacArt...
J230546 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Fred A. Gildersleeve; July 6, 1918. Copyright claimant's address: Waco. Image duplicates PAN US MILITARY - Army, no. 146. Top of image has been cropped. Exhibite... More
Base Hospital, Camp Custer, Panoramic Photograph
J230952 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; T. F. Mock; August 2, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45879.
Keep this hand of mercy at its work one hundred million dollars : War ...
American Red Cross campaign poster promoting the war fund showing large arm coming down from the sky. Form N.Y. 17 Second War Fund. Issued(?) by: American Red Cross.
The greatest mother in the world - Red Cross Christmas roll call Dec. ...
Poster showing a monumental Red cross nurse cradling a wounded soldier on a stretcher. No. 2XD-2. Copyright by American National Red Cross.
The comforter / Gordon Grant. during World War I
American Red Cross poster showing a Red Cross nurse holding an infant and comforting a woman amid the destruction left by war. Issued(?) by: American Red Cross.
Help the Red Cross / Herman Roeg.
Poster showing a Red Cross nurse holding a wounded soldier as she signals for help.
If I fail he dies Work for the Red Cross / / Reverend S.A. Iciek & Art...
Red Cross recruitment poster showing a nurse on a battlefield with a wounded soldier appealing to a nurse seated at a desk; in the background, soldiers charge into battle.
Base Hospital, Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., Feb. 1918
J229138 U.S. Copyright Office Section at left may be missing. Copyright deposit; Isaac Shulman; April 1, 1918.
You kept fit and defeated the Hun - now set a high standard, a clean A...
Post-World War I poster promoting health in America, showing a soldier with an eagle perched on his shoulder. No. 21294. Title transcribed from item.
The Red Cross sees a man through More than 26,000 men are still in hos...
Poster features three photographs of men receiving aid, including letter writing and the projection of images on the ceiling for men who are confined to bed. No. 4.
What can you do? Join our Red Cross Membership including Red Cross mag...
Poster showing a Red Cross nurse attending an injured man and his family.
When you go home - "carry on" the army's fight against venereal diseas...
Two American soldiers, one carrying a flag with caduceus on it, and the other carrying bayoneted rifle. Promotional goal: U.S. G31.J2. 1919. Lower right corner of poster missing with some loss to text.
What are you doing to help? Join your American Red Cross / Gordon Gran...
Poster showing a Red Cross nurse and a heavily bandaged man.
Make our American Red Cross in peace as in war, "The greatest mother i...
Poster showing a monumental Red cross nurse cradling a wounded soldier on a stretcher. Third Red Cross Roll Call, Nov. 2-11, 1919.
Junior Red Cross Comrades all / / Karl E. Johnson.
Poster showing a Junior Red Cross worker standing with two young boys.
Base Hospital, Camp Dodge, Iowa, Panoramic Photograph
J234227 U.S. Copyright Office Title transcribed from item. On front: "Copyright 1918 by Verne O. Williams Photographic Co., Kansas City, Mo." Photo no. 92. Copyright deposit, Verne O. Williams Photographic Co.,... More
Portrait of Brig. General William A. Hammond, Surgeon-General, officer...
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0924 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Corresponding print is in LOT ... More
Washington, D.C. Mess hall at Harewood Hospital, heated by elaborate s...
Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the hospitals. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0805 Title from Mi... More
Surgeon John Cooper of 2nd Union Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, 15th and ...
Notation on verso: "Doctor John Cooper, taken 1860 by Brady." Related to envelope and ticket to social hop at Wolfe Street Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, processed as LOT 14043-3, no. 47 a, b. Deposit; Tom Li... More
Jean Margaret Davenport Lander, actress and Civil War nurse Whipple, 9...
Beginning date based on year of her marriage; end date based on last year Whipple based at this address. Notation on recto: "Jean M. Lander to her friend Mrs. Chandler of Mich." Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018;... More
Sybil Jones, Quaker missionary who nursed Union soldiers and Confedera...
Printed on verso: "Sybil Jones, Maine, U.S.A." Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Chris Foard, The Foard Collection of Civil War Nursing, July 2018. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collec... More
Dr. Richard Burr, an embalming surgeon in the Army of the James demons...
Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Title from stereoview version: LC-DIG-stereo-1s04678. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C.... More
Unknown location. Zouave ambulance crew demonstrating removal of wound...
Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0865 Title from Milh... More
Hampton, Virginia Chesapeake Hospital and grounds
Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Hampton, Va. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald ... More
Unknown location. Zouave ambulance crew demonstrating removal of wound...
Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0864 Title from Milh... More
City Point, Virginia, vicinity. Medical supply boat Planter at General...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More
Yorktown, Virginia Thomas Nelson house (right), used as a hospital; in...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of... More
General S. P. Heintzelman and group, convalescent camp, near Alexandri...
No. B1121. Hand written on verso: "National Archives NA-B5293". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Helen L. Gilson, Civil War nurse and head of the Colored Hospital Serv...
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, Chancell... More
Civil War nurse partially identified as Miss Davis of South Street Hos...
Tax stamp on verso. 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 Photograph... More
Fairfax Seminary, near Alexandria, Virginia By Lewis Horning, Philadel...
Photograph shows military camp with General Hospital Headquarters for the Army of the Potomac, formerly Aspinwall Hall of Fairfax Seminary, in the distance. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased fro... More
Mansion House Hospital, Mansion House Hotel before and after the Civil...
Notation on verso: "The Mansion House Hospital just across from where Carrie and I boarded." Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Chris Foard, The Foard Collection of Civil War Nursing, July ... More
Portrait photo of Union nurse Major Belle Reynolds
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljpaper pp/liljwoch
Mary Morris Husband, Civil War nurse in Philadelphia, at field hospita...
Photograph shows portrait of identified nurse who worked at military hospitals in Philadelphia; field hospitals including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Port Royal; and hospital transports to Baltimore, Anti... More