A Repository for Bottled Monsters: We're Migrating...

Saturday, February 21, 2009

We're Migrating...

...to one Flickr account. We finally have a pro account so I took a leap of faith and downloaded a migration program that I had to have Microsoft Explorer (ugh) for, downloaded that, and am now in the process of migrating Otisarchives2 to Otisarchives1. It takes a while so the other two accounts probably won't be done until tomorrow.

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Mike Rhode said...: Just to clarify - the other accounts and any links you made to them will remain. We'll just be uploading new pictures into the original account, thanks to Kathleen's generosity in buying a pro account.

Still no news from legal counsel on the Flickr Commons permission though.; February 21, 2009 at 6:40 PM
observatory said...: Wonderful news! Thanks, Kathleen, for all of us! : ); February 21, 2009 at 6:44 PM
cruisingat60 said...: Not exactly. I'm copying what we have in 2, 3, and 4 into 1. All four accounts will still exist, but 1 will contain ALL the content of the four existing accounts plus all new uploads.; February 21, 2009 at 6:47 PM
cruisingat60 said...: You're welcome. It was really bugging me. I AM a librarian after all, and the disorganization was making me hyperventilate.; February 21, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Mike Rhode said...: I thought you were an archivist.; February 21, 2009 at 6:53 PM
cruisingat60 said...: Librarian, Archivist. Potaytoes, potahtoes.

All the same, just depends on the age of the materials.; February 21, 2009 at 6:54 PM

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Who are we?

Mike Rhode was the chief archivist of the Museum from 1989-2011, and is the founder of this blog. I maintain an interest in the course of the museum, and will be posting relevant information.

The Army Medical Museum was founded in 1862 during the American Civil War. After World War II, a parent-child relationship was inverted and the Museum became part of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Since then, the Museum has moved around Washington, stopping for years in Ford's Theatre, and on the National Mall where the building it shared with the National Library of Medicine once stood, until it was demolished in 1968 for the Hirshhorn Museum. For 35 years it was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and now is in Silver Spring, MD.

So what about that blog name?

It's historical. I found it in a quote from one of the former curators. World War II confirmed the Army Medical Museum's primary role in pathology consultation. James Ash, the curator during the war and a pathologist, noted, "Shortly after the last war, more concerted efforts were instituted to concentrate in the Army Medical Museum the significant pathologic material occurring in Army installations." He closed with the complaint, "We still suffer under the connotation museum, an institution still thought of by many as a repository for bottled monsters and medical curiosities. To be sure, we have such specimens. As is required by law, we maintain an exhibit open to the public, but in war time, at least, the museum per se is the least of our functions, and we like to be thought of as the Army Institute of Pathology, a designation recently authorized by the Surgeon General."

After the war, it evolved into the tri-service Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

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Saturday, February 21, 2009

We're Migrating...

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