Showing posts with label medical photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical photography. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Union Soldiers Convalescing From Wounds or Disease in the Interior of a Hospital Ward in Alexandria, Virginia, During the Civil War


Union soldiers convalescing from wounds or disease in the interior of a hospital ward in Alexandria, Virginia, during the Civil War. From Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War.

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Portrait of Union Soldier Thomas Yourall Who Served With Company C of the 3rd US Artillery During the Civil War



Portrait of Union soldier Thomas Yourall who served with Company C of the 3rd US Artillery during the Civil War. He required the surgical excision of the head of his humerus after suffering a wound to his arm on April 14, 1865. Photographed by Dr. Adams at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. Animated stereoview.

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Thursday, January 1, 2015

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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