Hospital ship, Nashville

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• Title: Hospital ship, Nashville

• Date Created/Published: [photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed later]

• Medium: 1 photographic print on card mount : gelatin silver.

• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-33749 (digital file from original item) LC-B8184-10670 (b&w film copy neg.)

• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

• Call Number: LOT 4180, no. 86 [P&P]

• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Just a quibble... this isn't a "ship," as (1) it's on the river, where the proper terminology would be "boat," and (2), it's not self-propelled... no evidence of engines. So it's really more of a hospital barge.

But it's still an interesting photo. Another discussion of it may be found at http://civilwartalk.com/threads/hospital-ship-uss-nashville.85263/