This photograph from Florence La Rose Ames' "That Sovereign Knowledge," shows the Women' Ward at York Hospital around the turn of the 20th century. Parts of the hospital, then located on West College Avenue, serves as an apartment complex today. The hospital moved to its South George Street campus in 1930. Background posts: Yank mortally wounded on ninth day of service and Doctor wrote about oxygen use to aid 'average country practitioners' and Cemetery bears rich Civil War tales.
The U.S. Army General Hospital, the large Civil War hospital located on Penn Park, is a master's thesis waiting to happen.
To my knowledge, no scholarly work has been written on the complex, which operated from 1862 to past war's end. The hospital even had its own newspaper, available on microfilm, so it would be possible to pull together strands into a helpful monograph.
One intriguing piece of that research would be to connect the dots, if possible, between the military hospital and York Hospital, started in 1880.
Some links aren't hard to find: ...
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