[Union hospital ship U.S.S.Red Rover]

United States.--Navy--Equipment & supplies--1860-1870

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Equipment & supplies--Union

Hospital ships--Union--1860-1870

Albumen prints--1860-1870

Cartes de visite--1860-1870

Sisters of the Holy Cross

Women--1860-1870

War work--Catholic Church

Nursing--United States--History

Nuns as nurses

Mississippi River--1860-1870

Cartes de visite, sepia-toned photograph shows U.S. Navy hospital ship, a side-wheel steamer and former Confederate barracks ship. The U.S.S. Red Rover was the first Union hospital ship whose staff included female nurses, including nuns from the Catholic order Sisters of the Holy Cross and African American women. On the verso of the albumen print, a notation reads "Surgeon on this vessel, Dr. J.T. Field of Bedminster, N.J." There is also a stamp on the verso that reads "Frank F. Raciti, 273 King George Road, Warren, New Jersey."

Unknown

Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress)

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

1862/1865

Liljenquist, Tom

Raciti, Frank F.

Field, Jacob T.

No known restrictions on publication.

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/

Is Part Of Lot 14043, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Civil War, Prints and Photographs Division

Photo, Print, Drawing

English

Still Image

https://www.loc.gov/item/2020634830/

LOT 14043-2, no. 1437 [P&P]

ppmsca 70913 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.70913

ppmsca 70914 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.70914

1862-1865

1 photograph : albumen print

mount 25 x 20 cm.