Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2012.

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Operating Tent at Camp Letterman, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Artist Peter S. Weaver (American, 1835 - 1906)

CultureAmerican

DateOctober 1863

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 6 1/4 × 8 3/8 in. (15.9 × 21.3 cm)
Overall, Paper: 8 1/2 × 10 13/16 in. (21.6 × 27.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange

Object number98.32.222

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DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. A picture of a large group of men standing around a tent. Two men to the left are walking on crutches. The rest of the men are focused on the action occurring near the center of the photograph where two surgeons work on a soldier laid out on a table in front of the tent opening. One man holds the injured soldiers leg up by the ankle, two other men stand nearby holding knives. The words below the photo read "Operating Tent Camp Letterman, Gettysburg, Pa." This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].

Label TextPeter S. Weaver American (1835-1906) Operating Tent at Camp Letterman, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, October 1863 Albumen print on Weaver mount 98.32.222 Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Medical Director for the Army of the Potomac, was responsible for treatment of the wounded after the Battle of Gettysburg. The hospital was named in his honor. The site was near a rail depot roughly one and one-half miles east of Gettysburg, so that trains could deliver supplies for the camp and transport convalescents to permanent hospitals in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. The hospital was staffed by a small army of surgeons, nurses, cooks, quartermasters, and supply clerks. Edited By: DS Edited Date: 01/2006Exhibition History"Civil War Photographs from the David L. Hack Collection and Civil War Redux: Pinhole Photographs by Willie Anne Wright," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, February 3 - October 29, 2006; Cape Fear Museum, Wilmington, NC, February 15 - May 28, 2007; Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, July 26 - September 21, 2008. "My Heart Beats for Peace," Portsmouth Art and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, VA, May 25 - August 25, 2013.