Army Medical Museum (AMM) Photographs

1897-c.1915

Photograph series begun by the Medical Museum during the Spanish-American War.  Most images show medical activities and equipment (including hospital ships and trains) during the war; others are bacteriology, photomicrographs and illustrations for medical manuals showing Hospital Corps activities.

A list of the photographs includes:

• 0011  View of Relief at Siboney.  July 10, 1898.
• 0026  View of Relief from beach at Siboney.  July 10, 1898.
• 0031  Taking X-ray picture on the Relief.  Subject is Colonel Eskridge.
• 0045  Boat load of wounded coming out to Relief.  Siboney, Cuba.
• 0046  Boat load of wounded coming out to Relief at Siboney, Cuba.  July, 1898.
• 0047  View of Siboney, Cuba from Relief.  A boat load of wounded is shown in the foreground coming out to the Relief.
• 0048  Wounded waiting to come aboard Relief, Siboney, Cuba.  July 1898.
• 0049  Wounded waiting to come aboard Relief, Siboney, Cuba.  July 1898.
• 0052  Wounded waiting to come aboard Relief, Siboney, Cuba.  July 1898.
• 0055  Bringing wounded aboard Relief at Siboney, Cuba.
• 0064  Sending carrier pigeon from Relief.
• 0073  Group in ward room of Relief.
• 0080  Showing launch of Relief coming out for empty boats, Siboney, Cuba.
• 0109  Group of typhoid convalescents on Relief.
• 0111  Burial at sea from Relief.
• 0122  Unloading medical supplies, bedding etc. from Relief, Ponce Harbor.
• 0124  Boat load of dead going ashore for burial, Ponce Harbor.
• 0172  Loading sick on boats for transfer to Relief.
• 0232  Wharf at Arroya, Puerto Rico.  Relief's boat making a landing.
• 0234  View of the Relief from the beach at Arroya.
• 0236  Loading sick in boat for transfer to Relief, Arroya, Puerto Rico.
• 0297  Unloading sick for transfer to Relief at wharf at Mayaguez.
• 0367  Landing wharf at Playa De Ponce.  One of the boats of the Relief is being loaded with sick.
• 0690a  Hoisting convalescent soldier on board homeward bound transport.  Manila, P.I.
• 2161a  Army Hospital Ship Relief in New York Harbor, July 1, 1898.  Old negative # 108.
• 2170  US Army Hospital Ship Relief in New York Harbor, East River, July 1, 1898, just before sailing for Cuba.  Old negative #81.
• 2172  Medical Officers State Room, Hospital Ship Relief.  Old negative #83.
• 2173  Ward 1, Hospital Ship Relief.  Old negative #89.
• 2174  Ward 3, Hospital Ship Relief.  Old negative #85.
• 2175  Ward 3, Hospital Ship Relief.  Old negative #86.
• 2176  Ward 4, Hospital Ship Relief.  Old negative #87.
• 2177  Operating room of Relief.  Old negative #88.
• 2179  Staff of Relief.  Maj. George H. Torney, U.S.A., Commander; Maj.  Bradley, U.S.V., Executive Officer; Lt.  Crabbs, Quarter-Master; Chaplain Robinson, U.S.A; Father Connolly; Drs. Tourney Jr., Metcalf, Gray, Schultze, and Marrow.  Old negative #90
• 2181  Female nurses on Hurricane deck of Relief.
• 2183  Hurricane deck of Relief.  Dr. W.M. Gray, Microscopist, Army Medical Museum, Wash. DC.  Old negative #94.
• 2184  Hurricane deck of Relief.  Maj. Francis Metcalfe, U.S.V. Surgeon.  Old negative #95.
• 2186  Dr. Gray making X-ray photos on Hospital Ship Relief.  (copied as MIS 53-21049).
• 2821  Hospital Ship Relief, Cuban waters, Operating Room.
• 2822  Hospital Ship Relief, Cuban waters, Operating Room.
• 2823  Hospital Ship Relief, Cuban waters.
• 2824  Hospital Ship Relief, nurses in Cuban waters, 1898.
• 2825  Hospital Ship Relief, Cuban waters.
• 2829  Hospital Ship Relief, Cuban waters, at wharf.
• 2833  Hospital Ship Relief, Cuban waters.
• 2834  Hospital Ship Relief, Cuban waters.
• 2859  Ward Room of Hospital Ship Relief while in Cuban waters.
• 2862  Operating Room of Hospital Ship Relief while in Cuban waters.
• 2937  Hospital Ship Relief, Cuban waters.  Ward Room.

Bradley Collection

1916-1968

Collection of Gen. Alfred E. Bradley, MC, who served in the Spanish-American War as executive officer aboard the hospital ship Relief.  He also was chief surgeon of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in WWI.  Includes copies of letters to his wife while in medical school, memoirs by his wife, and photographs of England (1916) and US General Hospital in Biltmore, NC.

Contributed Photographs (CP)

1862-1918

Over 4,000 photographs sent to the Medical Museum by various donors.  Provides a survey of 19th century medicine; especially strong on the Civil War and Western forts. the photographs are numbered consecutively; many are missing. Copies of some of the series were bound in 13 volumes.  Original card file survives.

A list of the photographs includes:

• 2657  US Hospital steamer City of Memphis.
• 2658  Hospital transport S.R. Spaulding.
• 2659  Hospital steamer State of Maine.
• 2660  Hospital steamer State of Maine.
• 2661  Hospital steamer State of Maine.
• 2662  Hospital ship General J.K. Barnes.

International Exposition of 1876 Medical Department Photographs

1876

Two duplicate volumes of 30 photographs made by the Museum for exhibition at the exposition. They show Army hospitals and models of ambulances and hospital buildings, railroad cars, and ships.  The model ships are still in the Museum.  There is also a group portrait including Woodward.  Some glass plate negatives are in the Woodward Collection.  Related material is in Curatorial Records: Expositions.

McGee Collection

1904-1908

Anita Newcomb McGee, assistant surgeon, was director of the Daughters of the American Revolution Hospital Corps (which became the Red Cross) and organized the Army Nurse Corps in 1901.  Material concerns her assignment in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War, including manuscripts, pamphlets, reports, correspondence, reprints, newsclippings, and photographs.  Many documents are in Japanese.  Photographs of Japanese hospital ships Kobe Maru and Kosai Maru are included.

Medical Ephemera Collection - General Medical Reference Series Clippings

Reprints and photocopies filed under subject headings like a library's vertical files.  This collection is not being currently maintained and material may be discarded if no longer useful.  The Hospital Ship file includes:

• Arthur, W.H.  Outfitting a Hospital Ship in the War with Spain.  Photocopy from the W.H. Arthur Papers at the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division.
• Gray, Howard K.  The Function of a Hospital Ship.  US Naval Institute Proceedings, 72:3, March 1946.  Reprint.
• Medical Museum of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.  US Navy Hospital Ship Haven, M-867, Dec 1955.  Mimeographed fact sheet given out at Museum.
• Medical Museum of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.  Hospitals at Sea, M-3678, Sept. 1952.  Mimeographed fact sheet given out at Museum.
• Robinson, George.  The Hospital Ship in the War with Spain, War Paper No. 19 (read before the Kansas Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, November 3, 1898.)  Photocopy of paper.
• Roddis, Louis H.  The US Hospital Ship Red Rover, Military Surgeon, 77:91-98, August 1935.  Photocopy of article.
• Scientific American, Aug. 6, 1898.  2 photocopied pages.
• USNS Mercy:  Army Care given Aboard Hospital Ship, Stripe, July 17, 1987, p. 8.  Newspaper clipping.
• Valentine, Paul W.  WWII Cargo Carrier Gets a New Life, Washington Post, Sept. 8, 1990, p. B7.  Newspaper clipping on the sanctuary.

Models of Hospital Ships in Historical Collections

1876

• 1.Hospital Ship D A January, made for 1876 Exposition by Charles Hemje.  M-550 00004; Accession: 703,903; AMM No.2984
• 2.Hospital Ship Joseph K Barnes, made by Charles Hemji for 1876 Exposition. M-550 00009; Accession: 704,179; AMM No.2984

NMHM Audiovisual Collection

1930s-present

Medical films, videotapes, filmstrips, and audio-tapes donated from a variety of sources.  Most are from AFIP's Medical Illustration Service and WRAMC-TV.  Some films may be restricted due to copyright.  Includes two films on hospital ships:  Med M 341, 'Hospital Ship Activities USA HS St. Mihiel' on 16mm color silent stock.  It probably dates to World War II and is faded.  The second is evacuation of the wounded (Med M 120).

New Contributed Photographs

19th century-present

Artificial collection of medical photographs recently acquired by or located in the Museum and not part of another collection. Begun by Otis Archives in 1986.

A list of photographs includes:

• 0879  United States Army Hospital Ship Marigold.
• 0880  United States Army Hospital Ship Marigold.  Men sunning on the deck.
• 0881  United States Army Hospital Ship Marigold.  Sleeping quarters for the crew.
• 0882  United States Army Hospital Ship Marigold.  Men sitting on the deck.
• 0883  United States Army Hospital Ship Marigold.  Men relaxing on the deck.
• 0884  United States Army Hospital Ship Marigold.  212th Hospital Ship complement.
• 0885  Army Hospital Ships, the Frances Y. Slanger (top), a former Italian passenger liner, and the St. Olaf (bottom), a Liberty Ship, were converted by the Transportation Corps and operated under the Hague Convention.
• 0890  Painting of unidentified Hospital Ship.
• 1342  US Hospital Ship Relief (in New York Harbor, July 2nd 1898.)  Published in ScientificAmerican Magazine, Aug. 6, 1898.
• 1369  #7 Colonel Richard Mason at work in the ship's lab.  #8 English David Hemrick, Chief of Bacteriology in the ship's lab.
• 1371  #11 in the ship's laboratory.  #12 in the ship's lab.
• 1373  #15 Serology in the ship's laboratory.  #16 Bacteriology corner of the ship's lab.
• 2105  Exhibit:  Model of Hospital Ship D.A. January.
• 3410  US Navy Hospital Ship Steamer (Copy of print - origins unknown).
• 3411  Navy Hospital Ship Haven, Circa 1950s.
• 3412  Navy Hospital Ship Haven.
• 3413  Navy Hospital Ship Haven.
• 3414  Navy Hospital Ship Haven.
• 3415  Navy Hospital Ship Haven.
• 3416  Arrival of helicopter aboard the Haven.
• 3417  Helicopter aboard the Haven.
• 3430  US Army Hospital Ship Ernestine Koranda, at dock, World War II.

   

  
  

• NCP 1369-1373 are part of a series.  The accompanying information states:  Pictures taken in Korea.  Scenes from hospitals, laboratories, prison compounds, serology and other lab work, kitchens, etc.  It is not known what ship is referred to in the captions. 

Reeve Photograph Collection - Prints

1917-1953

Series of photographs taken by the Museum primarily during the tenure of Roy Reeve, chief of photography 1917-1948.  Also known as World War I collection.  Series began with the Museum's photographs taken in Europe & received from the Signal Corps in WWI.  Taken primarily for medical illustrations.  Series ended with formation of AFIP Medical Illustration Service (MIS).  Original index cards serve as finding aid.

An incomplete list of photographs include:

• 012452  Landing wounded soldiers from boat (hospital-boat) which left Chateau Thierry at 4:45 pm Aug. 25, 1918.  Aug. 26, 1918.  Charlinton, France.
• 12658  Packet boat No. 4 transporting American wounded from vacuation Hospital to Base Hospital.
• 013500  USS Sierra, troops on board 337th F.A. 88th Div. Casual Medical Detachment. Casuals, sick and wounded.  Ship loaded at night.  American docks. Jan. 7, 1919.
• 013501  Stretcher cases being carried on board USS Maui. Jan. 14, 1919.  American docks, Bassens, Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
• 013588  Loading stretcher cases aboard USS Rijdan from ambulances. Dec. 18, 1918. St. Nazaire, Loire Inferieure, France.
• 013589  Scene showing wounded soldiers representing all branches of service, coming aboard USS Rijdan.  It was necessary for them to cross the West Gatomska in order to board the transport. Dec. 18, 1918.
• 013590  Men of the 44th Ambulance Co. bringing stretcher cases aboard the USS Rijdan. Dec. 18, 1918. St. Bazaire, Loire Inferieure, France.
• 013591  Hospital Ship Mercy. 7 Jan 1919. St. Lazaire, Loire Inferieure, France. 44th Ambulance Co. and 9th Evacuation Ambulance Co. loaded with stretcher cases to go aboard the Hospital Ship Mercy.
• 013593  Men on stretchers being carried over the rail and placed on board Hospital Ship Mercy for transportation to America, 44th Ambulance Com. and 9th Evacuation Co. Jan. 7, 1919. St. Nazaire...France.
• 013594  Men on stretchers being carried over the rail and placed on board Hospital Ship Mercy for transportation to America. 44th Amb. Co. and 9th Evac. Amb. Co. Jan. 7, 1919. St. Nazaire, France.
• 013595  Unloading patients from ambulances ready to be placed on board Hospital Ship Mercy bound for America. 44th Amb. Co. and 9th Evac. Amb. Co. Jan. 7, 1919. St. Nazaire, Loire Inferieure, France.
• 013596  Group of casuals aboard Hospital Ship Mercy bound for America. Jan. 7, 1919. St. Nazaire, Loire Inferieure, France.
• 013597  Carrying wounded from the ambulances to Hospital Ship Mercy enroute to America. 44th Amb. Co. and 9th Evac. Amb. Co. Jan. 7, 1919. St. Nazaire, Loire Inferieure, France.
• 013598  Hospital Ship Mercy just before sailing for America with 500 casuals aboard. Jan 7, 1919. St. Nazaire, Loire Inferieure, France.
• 013613  Hospital Ship, loaded and ready to leave. France.
• 014376  Australian Hospital Ship Glenant Castle A.T.S.  Jan. 11-13, 1919.  Brest Harbour, Finistere, France.
• 015302  USS Henry R. Mallery at berth.  Troops on board 327th F.A. 84th
• 015303  Wounded troops going on board the USS Henry R. Mallery.  American docks.  Jan. 19, 1919.  Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
• 015304  USS Pastores, loading casuals, sick and wounded at the American docks.  Jan. 19, 1919.  Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
• 015518  USS Maui, loading wounded soldiers, returning to USA.  Jan. 10, 1919.  Bordeaux Embarkation Port, Bassens, France.
• 015518a USS Maiu.  Bordeaux, France.  Hospital Ship.  Loading wounded.
• 015672   USS Henderson at berth loading casuals, sick and wounded. Feb. 3, 1919. American docks. Bassens, Bordeaux, France.
• 015673  USS Wilhelmina leaving American docks with casuals, sick and wounded on board for the USA. Feb. 11, 1919. American docks. Bassens, Bordeaux, France.
• 015674  USS Abancers at French docks.  Base Hospital No. 6 and casuals, officers on board. Feb. 14, 1919. American docks. Bassens, Bordeaux, France.
• 015675  Carrying stretcher cases on board Hospital Ship USS Comfort.  Most serious cases sent back to USA.  American docks. Feb. 19, 1919. Bassens, Bordeaux, France.
• 0156763  48th Infantry Band giving concert on docks while loading wounded on board Hospital Ship USS Comfort. American docks. Feb. 19, 1919. Bassens, Bordeaux, France.
• 015677  Nurses leading blind troops to the Hospital Ship USS Comfort to go on board.  American docks.  Feb. 19, 1919.  Bassens, Bordeaux, France.
• 015678  Hospital Ship USS Comfort at berth.  American docks.  Feb. 27, 1919.  Bassens, Bordeaux, France
• 015679  Carrying stretcher cases on board Hospital Ship USS Mercy. Feb. 27, 1919. Bassens, Bordeaux, France.
• 015680  Hospital Ship USS Mercy at berth. Feb. 27, 1919. Bassens, Bordeaux, France.
• 016021  Red Cross Hospital Ship HMS Kalijan returning to Archangel from the Murman Coast.  This ship which has 700 beds will stay in Archangel over the winter.  Nov. 11, 1918.
• 016319  Carrying a paralyzed soldier who was on the President Lincoln on board Hospital Ship to take him to hospital at Breste.  June 1, 1918.  Breste, France.
• 017534  Wounded being landed from boat after Chateau Thierry Drive, Aug. 25, 1918.
• 030735  Hospital Ship Montauk, Hampton, Va. debarkation Hospital #51. 2/14/20.
• 030736  Sick and wounded aboard Hospital Ship with Red Cross worker, Newport News, Va. Feb. 14, 1920
• 030737  Getting wounded soldiers ashore from Hospital Ship. 2/14/20
• 030739  Taking wounded officers from Hospital Ship. Newport News, Va. 2/14/20
• 032633  Hospital Ship Relief, USN.  Interior plans. (Main deck)
• 032634  Hospital Ship Relief, USN.  Exterior and interior views (outboard and interior profile).
• 032635  Hospital Ship Relief, USN.  Exterior and interior views (bridge deck and bridge and superstructure deck).
• 032636  Hospital Ship Relief, USN.  Interior views (First platform and second deck).
• 032637  Hospital Ship Relief, USN.  Interior plans (Midship section).
• 032638  Hospital Ship Relief, USN.  Interior plans (Second platform and Hold).
• 032639  Hospital Ship Relief, USN.  Interior plans (Third platform, Upper deck and Forecastle deck).
• 033968  Hospital Barge.  Patients coming aboard. A.E.F.
• 035175  Laboratory, USS Relief.
• 035176  USS Relief, taking patients aboard.
• 035177  USS Relief, Medical Officers Stateroom.  Navy Yard, Philadelphia,  Feb 3, 1921.
• 035178  USS Relief, Dispensary (looking forward.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia,  Jan 18, 1921.
• 035179  USS Relief, Media Room (looking forward.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Jan 12, 1920.
• 035180  USS Relief, Autopsy Room.  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 11, 1921.
• 035181  USS Relief, Contagious Ward Pantry.  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 11, 1921.
• 035182  USS Relief, Disinfecting bath.  Contagious Ward.  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 11, 1921.
• 035183  USS Relief, Officers Mess Room (looking port.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Jan 25, 1921.
• 035184  USS Relief, Laboratory (looking aft.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Jan 12, 1921.
• 035185  USS Relief, Nurses' Recreation Room (looking port.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 1, 1921.
• 035186  USS Relief, X-ray Room (looking aft.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Jan 21, 1921.
• 035187  USS Relief, Photographic Dark Room (looking starboard.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Jan 6, 1921.
• 035188  USS Relief, Instrument and Dressing Room (looking starboard.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 7, 1921.
• 035189  USS Relief, Operating Room (starboard to port.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Jan 31, 1921.
• 035190  USS Relief, small Operating Room starboard (looking aft.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 14, 1921.
• 035191  USS Relief, Lobby to Operating Room.  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 7, 1921.
• 035192  USS Relief, X-ray study Room (looking forward.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Jan 31, 1921.
• 035193  USS Relief, Sick Officers Stateroom (starboard side.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 24, 1921.
• 035194  USS Relief, Sick Officers Mess Room.  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 9, 1921.
• 035195  USS Relief, Laundry (starboard side looking aft.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Jan 19, 1921.
• 035196  USS Relief, Barber shop (looking port.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Jan 25, 1921.
• 035197  USS Relief, Acute Treatment Room.  Venereal Ward (looking port.)  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 9, 1921.
• 035198  USS Relief, Animal House.  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 11, 1921.
• 035199  USS Relief, Field Hospital Gear.  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 8, 1921.
• 035200  USS Relief, Sterilizing Room (port).  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 8, 1921.
• 035201  USS Relief, Sterilizing Room.  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 8, 1921.
• 035202  USS Relief, Eye Dark Room booths.  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 2, 1921.
• 035203  USS Relief, Endoscopic Room (starboard side).  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 8, 1921.
• 035204  USS Relief, Operating Room (looking port).  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Jan 31, 1921.
• 035206  USS Relief, Hot Air cabinet in Hydro-therapeutic Room (open).  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 24, 1921.
• 035207  USS Relief, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Room (looking forward).  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 14, 1921.
• 035209  USS Relief, Dental Office (looking starboard).  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Jan 28, 1921.
• 035210  USS Relief, Disinfecting Plant.  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 11, 1921.
• 035211  USS Relief, Hydro-therapeutic Room (looking aft).  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 24, 1921.
• 035212  USS Relief, Specific Ward Mess-room.  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 25, 1921.
• 035213  USS Relief, Ward A.  Contagious (starboard to port).  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 25, 1921.
• 035214  USS Relief, Patient Ward (looking aft).  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 14, 1921.
• 035215  USS Relief, Upper Deck (looking aft).  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 3, 1921.
• 035216  USS Relief, ready to sail [general view].  Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Feb 15, 1921.
• 039770  Prayer on board French Hospital ship near Salonica.
• 039864  French Naval Officer on board Hospital Ship taking wounded on board.
• 050515  Hospital Ship Relief, 1898, from oil painting.
• 065813  General J.K. Barnes, USA Hospital Transport.  (copy of 2662 Cont Photo)
• 065814  City of Memphis, USA Hospital steamer. (copy of 2657 Cont Photo)
• 065815  Hospital Transport S.R. Spalding. (copy of 2658 Cont Photo)
• 072797  Surgical operation on board US Army Hospital Ship Relief.  Spanish War Series #88.
• 072802  Ward #3 US Army Hospital Ship Relief. Spanish War Series #78.
• 072804  Ward #4 US Army Hospital Ship Relief. Spanish War Series #77.
• 072805  US Army Hospital Ship Relief. Spanish War Series #35.
• 072806  Taking X-ray photograph on USA Hospital Ship Relief. Spanish War Series #89.
• 076378  Operating Room, US Army Hospital Ship Shamrock at S.I.T. 9/3/43
• 076379  Nurses stateroom aboard US Army Hospital Ship Shamrock at S.I.T. 9/3/43
• 076381  US Army Hospital Ship Shamrock at pier.
• 076382  Medical Ward aboard US Army Hospital Ship Shamrock at S.I.T. 9/3/43

 Relief Painting

Painting of the USS Relief; artist unknown.  Painting shows the second of the hospital ships called Relief which served the Army and Navy.  The second Relief was scrapped in 1922.

Spanish-American War Photographs

1898

Group of photographs showing medical activities in the Spanish-American War; some are bound as Medical Department activities in Puerto Rico.  Some of these may have been taken by Medical Museum staff.  These may be the same as the AMM photographs.

Includes:

• 29  Loading patients to transfer to US Hospital Ship Relief
• 30  Loading patients to transfer to US Hospital Ship Relief
• 31  Loading patients to transfer to US Hospital Ship Relief
• 35  US Army Hospital Ship Relief
• 36  US Army Hospital Ship Missouri
• 37  Sick on wharf at Ponce to be placed on Hospital Ship Relief
• 38  Loading patients on boat at Arroya for transfer to Relief
• 39  Loading patients on boat at Arroya for transfer to Relief
• 40  Boat load of wounded coming off dock to Relief from hospital at Siboney, Siege of Santiago, Cuba
• 41  Taking wounded on board Relief
• 42  Taking wounded on board Relief
• 43  Taking wounded on board Relief
• 44  Hoisting convalescent soldier on board homeward bound transport
• 65  Transferring hospital stores ashore at Ponce from Relief
• 77  Ward 4, Relief
• 87  Operating room, Relief
• 88  Surgical operation on board Relief
• 89  Taking x-ray photo on Relief

Surgical Photographs (SP)

1860-1880s

Four-hundred Medical Museum photographs taken to illustrate interesting surgical cases as well as Museum Specimens.  The collection is also known as Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens.  Copies of the photographs were bound in eight volumes; the collection includes several of each volume.  Also includes five boxes of associated records.  Includes one hospital ship photograph, SP 109, plan of the fittings of the US Hospital transport General J.K. Barnes.

US Army Ambulance Material

1859-1960s

Assembled material on the history of US Army ambulances from the Civil War to WWI. Includes originals and copies of Army specifications, regulations, correspondence, and drawings, and photographs of ambulance wagons, railroad cars, and ships.  Three watercolor views of hospital ship, DA January: Interior view of cabin; Map of cabin floor and lower deck; exterior view.

US Army Signal Corps Photographs

c.1917-1950s

US Army Signal Corps photographs of medical subjects.  Identical to master set at National Archives.  Includes a box of lantern slides.  There are also Signal Corps photographs in the WWI/Reeve Collection, WWI Glass Plate Negatives, and NCP (unit-level).

• 0113577  Wounded being brought aboard Relief, Siboney, Cuba.  July 1898.  Negative by Dr. William M. Gray.
• 0145713  Photo shows hospital beds aboard the U.S.A.T., John Erickson, at a port of embarkation.
• 0163460  An operation being performed aboard Convoy Ship carrying US Troops.  Medical care is always available.  10/29/42.
• 0166741  The X-ray Room aboard a Hospital Ship.  New Guinea.  12/19/42.
• 0166743  The Dental Clinic aboard a Hospital Ship.  New Guinea. 12/19/42.
• 0166747  Officers Ward aboard a Hospital Ship.  New Guinea.  12/19/42.
• 0166749  One of the Main Wards aboard a Hospital Ship. New Guinea.  12/19/42.
• 0166750  A section of a ward on a Hospital Ship.  Beds are slung from the ceiling when there is an overflow.  New Guinea.  12/19/42.
• 0170200  One of the ten general medical wards aboard ship.  Hospital care aboard ship can be well compared to that of Land Hospitals.  11/4/42.  Enroute to Africa.
• 0187409  Ambulatory patients being lifted from hospital barge in a landing box onto deck of Hospital Ship (Tasma at Milne Bay, New Guinea) Oct. 4, 1943.
• 0191670  United States Hospital Ship, Chateau Thierry, at Army Base, south Boston, Mass. Mar. 1944.
• 0201136  Aboard a Hospital Ship enroute to a Hospital Burma, Lt. Irene Brown administers plasma to a patient as the plane gained altitude over the mountains that both plasma and oxygen were necessary.
• 0207443  Patients are comfortably bedded down in a medical Ward of a ship which will carry them back to the United States.
• 0211678  The US Army Hospital Ship, Frances Y. Slanger docking at New York Harbor, carried her precious cargo of American wounded soldiers safely across the ocean from England.
• 0223826  This spick and span ward office is aboard the US Army Hospital Ship Milne. 1st Service Command 1945.
• 0223827  A clean utility room aboard the US Army Hospital Ship Milne. 1st Service Command.
• 0223828  A neat, shiny laboratory on the US Army Hospital Ship Milne 1st Service Command. 1945.
• 0223829  A dressing station on the US Army Hospital Ship Milne. 1st Service Command. 1945.
• 0223830  These neatly lined beds are in the Surgical Ward on the US Army Hospital Ship Milne. 1st Service Command.
• 0223831  A well lit operating room aboard the US Army Hospital Ship Milne 1st Service Command. 1945.
• 0223832  A clean and spotless diet Kitchen on the US Army Hospital Ship Milne 1st Service Command.
• 0223837  The US Army Hospital Ship Milne loaded with soldiers nears a port of 1st Service Command. 1945.
• 0263064  The B-18, one of the 533rd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment boats, has been improvised as a Hospital Evacuation Ship for litter patients.  It operates on the Mindanao River near Fort Pikit Ferry.
• 0311002  USS Comfort Hospital Ship at Pier 232 at the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation, Ca. 10 Aug 1945.
• 0356231  Commander Bruno O. Junnila and HM/3 Harry Palo, X-ray technician, prepare to X-ray Pfc. George E. Anthony's arms, as nurse Lt. Rita K. camp of Warren, Ohio,
• stands by to assist, aboard the USMS Hospital Ship Repose, Korea.
• 0356232  HM/1 John Petry of Indianapolis, Ind., gives prescription to Nurse Lt. Kathleen Marsh of North Platte, Neb., as Nurse Lt. Rita K. camp of Warren, Ohio, awaits her turn at the pharmacy office aboard the USNS Hospital Ship.
• 0356233  HM/1 Ralph E. Hansel of Thomasville, N.C., and Nurse Lt. Rita K. camp of Warren, Ohio, watch samples of spinal protein in the Clinical Laboratory aboard the USNS Hospital Ship Repose. 28 December 1950.
• 0356234  Nurse and several patients enjoy a song by one of the patient. 28 Dec 1950.
• 0401859  USN Hospital Ship Repose anchored in Inchon Harbor, Korea. 26 June 1952.

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) Korean War Photographs

1951-1953

Unidentified photographs of Korean War medical scenes, including pathological photographs and images of field medicine, evacuations, medical staff, hospitals, hospital ships, equipment, ambulances, and helicopters.  see NCPs for other WRAIR photographs from this period.

Bibliography of Articles by Museum Staff on Hospital Ships:

• Hawk, Alan. "Transportation of the Wounded:  the Models of the Armed Forces Medical Museum", Caduceus 3:4, pps. 1-25 (1987).  (copy available from Museum)
• LaGarde, LA. "Description of Models of Hospital Steam Vessels from the Army Medical Museum at World's Columbian Exposition", Chicago, 1892-1893
• Otis, George A. & DL Huntington.  "Medical & Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion: Surgical History part III", Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883.  Chapter 15 has a section on water transportation.  (copy available from Museum)
• Woodward, JJ.  "International Exhibition of 1876: Hospital of the Medical Department, United States Army.  No. 4 Description of the Models of Hospital Steam-Vessels Exhibited in Room No. 2", Philadelphia: 1876. (copy available from Museum)
• Woodward, JJ.  "Description of Models of Hospital Steam Vessels from the Army Medical Museum at New Orleans Exposition 1884-1885".

Bibliography of Additional Books Held by the Museum

• Borden, WC.  "The Use of the Rontgen Ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the War With Spain (1898)",  Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900.  Borden discusses the type of x-ray equipment that three hospital ships, the Relief, Missouri and Bay State, carried.  The book was written with the help of Dr. William Gray of the Army Medical Museum and the Relief.
• Commander, Naval Medical Command.  "Navy Medicine Fact File May 1987",  includes the Hospital Ships and Fleet Hospitals chapter.
• Jackson, Frederick E. (ed).  "USS Sanctuary AH 17 - 1967",  Marcelince, MO: Walsworth Publishing Co., 1967.  (stored in Military Hospitals collection)
• Sanitary Commission.  "Hospital Transports: a Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in the Summer of 1862",  Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862.  A collection of eight letter writers about their service aboard the Daniel Webster.