The Ambulance Corps
Photograph
Taylor & Huntington
American
The Ambulance Corps
From The War for the Union 1861–1865
ca. 1863
Albumen silver print, printed ca. 1885
Image (each): 3 1/8 × 3 1/4 in. (8 × 8.2 cm)
Mount: 4 × 6 15/16 in. (10.1 × 17.7 cm)
Museum accession
1981.5971.0007
Inscriptions printed in black ink on mount recto, LC: 1861 / The War For the Union. / 1865 [sideways along edge]
printed in black ink on mount recto, BR: 1078. / The Ambulance Corps. \ [FOR DESCRIPTION OF THIS VIEW SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS CARD.]
printed in black ink on mount recto, RC: 1861 / Photographic War History. 1865 [sideways along edge]
printed in black ink on mount verso, RC: 1078. / The Ambulance Corps. \ This view shows the method of removing the wounded from \ the field by the Ambulance Corps. In no previous war in the \ history of the world was so much done to alleviate suffering as \ in the war of 1861–1865. But notwithstanding all that was done, \ the wounded suffered horribly. After any great battle it required \ several days and nights of steady work ere all the wounded were \ gathered up, and no pen nor tongue can tell how they suffered \ while waiting for the Ambulance Corps. \ 1861—PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY.—1865 \ This series of pictures are ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS taken [...] [sideways]
printed in black ink on mount recto, BR: 1078. / The Ambulance Corps. \ [FOR DESCRIPTION OF THIS VIEW SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS CARD.]
printed in black ink on mount recto, RC: 1861 / Photographic War History. 1865 [sideways along edge]
printed in black ink on mount verso, RC: 1078. / The Ambulance Corps. \ This view shows the method of removing the wounded from \ the field by the Ambulance Corps. In no previous war in the \ history of the world was so much done to alleviate suffering as \ in the war of 1861–1865. But notwithstanding all that was done, \ the wounded suffered horribly. After any great battle it required \ several days and nights of steady work ere all the wounded were \ gathered up, and no pen nor tongue can tell how they suffered \ while waiting for the Ambulance Corps. \ 1861—PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY.—1865 \ This series of pictures are ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS taken [...] [sideways]
