Showing posts with label 1849. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1849. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Calotype View of Workers Standing on a Cast Iron Lighthouse Assembled Temporarily at the Foundry Where it Was Created in Philadelphia Before Its Shipment For Installation on Carysfort Reef in Florida (1849)


Calotype view of workers standing on a cast iron lighthouse assembled temporarily at the foundry where it was created in Philadelphia before its shipment for installation on Carysfort Reef in Florida, August 2, 1849. By the Langenheim brothers.

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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Daguerreotype Portrait of Dr. Jonathan Letterman at the Bedside of a Dead or Dying Patient (1849)


Daguerreotype portrait of Dr. Jonathan Letterman at the bedside of a dead or dying patient, 1849. He later became a major in the Union Army during the Civil War where he became known as the "Father of Modern Battlefield Medicine." The hospital named Camp Letterman set up after the Battle of Gettysburg was named after him. Image from the American Experience documentary called Death and the Civil War.

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