Name/Title
Patients and visitors at Fort Riley, Kansas hospital.Entry/Object ID
2013.3.29Description
Cabinet card showing soldiers and visitors in a hospital ward at Fort Riley, Kansas. The image is sepia-toned, with a beige mat. "5" is handwritten on the left side of the back.
According to http://luna.ku.edu:8180/luna/servlet/kuluna01kui~15~15:
"The Pennell Collection consists of more than 30,000 glass plate negatives that represent the life work of Joseph J. Pennell, a successful commercial studio photographer who worked in Junction City, Kansas, from the early 1890s to the early 1920s. It provides a comprehensive view of life in a moderately-sized, Midwestern, army-post town on the Great Plains at the turn of the last century. The University of Kansas acquired the negatives, along with 10 ledgers of business records, in 1950. Pennell's novelist son, Joseph Stanley Pennell, was persuaded to donate them by KU faculty member Robert Taft. Taft selected 4000 images that he considered significant, printed them, and prepared a traveling exhibition, which generated a great deal of interest, especially in Kansas. In 1983, with funding provided by NEH, the entire collection was surveyed, and additional images were printed, and cataloged along with the images selected by Taft. It is this subset that has been digitized and presented."Collection
Howard J. GrahamAcquisition
Accession
2013.3Source or Donor
Howard J. GrahamAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Donated in memory of Howard J. Graham