Ogden, Sarah Perot, 1831-? Photograph album, with cartes de visite [word processed inventory available]

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GLC#
GLC06559.154-View header record
Type
Scrapbooks & Albums
Date
1850-1865
Author/Creator
Ogden, Sarah Perot, 1831-?
Title
Photograph album, with cartes de visite [word processed inventory available]
Place Written
Various Places
Pagination
27 carte de visites de visites + album.
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

The album contains 27 photographs of the military patients and staff of the U. S. Hospital in Philadelphia. Includes 20 identified patients (one of whom is John Walker, a 13 year old drummer boy), 4 male nurses and stewards. All of the patients are dressed in military uniforms. Information on the reverse of the Cartes de visite, written in ink, gives the subject's identity, wounds or illness, and other details. The initial leaf of the album is inscribed "Sallie M. Ogden, December 25, 186-." The second leaf is inscribed "Sick & Wounded at U. S. Hospital, Broad and Cherry Sts. Phila." The photographs have been removed from the album pages.

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