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Box 20

 Container

Contains 33 Results:

Photographs (primarily cabinet cards, but also some tintypes)

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Burt Green Wilder (several photos, mostly cabinet cards)

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Celia Colton Burt (1812-1904), BGW's mother, photo in later life

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

David Wilder, Sr. (1809-1891), BGW's father, photo in later life

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Sarah Cowell Nichols, BGW's first wife: solo portrait (between 1874-1884); with eldest daughter, Ruth

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Dr. William Nichols, BGW's father-in-law

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Ruth Wilder, eldest daughter, who died before reaching one year: Oct. 29, 1869 (at 7 1/2 mos.); several undated; just after she died

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Mary Nichols Wilder (b. 1871? second daughter): cabinet card photos of her as an infant, little girl, and young woman also, 10 tintypes, probably of Mary, including one with her as little girl with an African American woman, probably a nanny

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Bertha Wilder, youngest daughter (b. 1874): as an infant; little girl; as a teenager playing the violin; as a young woman

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

BGW and his second wife, Mary Field Wilder, 1919 at Siasconset ("Sconset") Nantucket, with BGW's note: "ourselves & 'Gray Brother Jr.' [cat] taken by Juanita Bates at close of her visit here in spring of 1919"

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.