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Title: Convalescent Camp (winter)
Creator: Russell, Andrew J., photographer
Contributor: Clough, J. B. (Joel Barber), 1823-1881. (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1863
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Convalescent camp near Alexandria, Virginia. Photograph shows the entrance to a military hospital facility known as "Camp Misery". Center building with the words Head Quarters printed above double doors where a small group of men stand. There are two types of ambulances and a family carriage in front of the building with several more men in the road. Behind this scene are rows of white barracks and men. In the foreground there are trees with very few leaves. This image similar to photCL 301 (86). Title on mount: Convalescent Camp (winter). Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 27.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photographic print : albumen ; image 29 x 39 cm, mount 43 x 52 cm.
Identifier: photCL 301 (87)
396547
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/344
Subject: Military hospitals--Virginia--Alexandria--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Ambulances--Virginia--Alexandria--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Carriages & coaches--Virginia--Alexandria--1860-1870. (lctgm)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities
Albumen prints--1860-1870. (gmgpc)
Source: Joel B. Clough Collection of United States Military Railroad Photographs by Andrew J. Russell.
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Gift of Frank Clough, Capt. Clough's grandson, July 25, 1975.

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