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Showing posts with label photographs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photographs. Show all posts
Friday, February 11, 2011

Dart Scrapbook finding aid now online

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Archives intern Sara Gonzales has written a finding aid for the recent donation of a scrapbook owned by AFIP director Raymond Dart. http://w...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Pictures of average Civil War soldiers

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SCDV 192 Ulmur, David, CO. M 4th PA Cavalry, battle of Dinwiddie Court House The Washington Post is reporting an excellent donation of 700 p...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Letter of the Day: July 9

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Medical Director’s Office, Louisville, Ky., July 9 1863 General, I have the honor to enclose four photographs for the “Cripple’s Gallery”, A...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Letter and Photographs of the Day: April 13 addition

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Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 8202 April 13, 1905 Mr. J. E. Standley, Colman Dock, Seattle, Washington Sir: Your letter of t...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Letter of the Day: March 18

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Boston 89 Charles St March 18 ‘72 My Dear Dr. I sent to you some months ago, by Express, a box containing a cast of the face of Charles XII,...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Another Archives collection scanned

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They are the cartes-de-visite of Medical Museum specimens. Labeled and arranged by specimen number, they were used as illustrations in the M...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Latest Flickr statistics

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1,625 items - 885,625 views. This mustard gas testing shot has been popular lately: We're working on a project to get many 700,000 imag...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

NLM updates its photo website

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Here's the PR, but I saw this at AAHM, and tried it out more today, and it works much better than the old one. And they've gotten ri...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

New book of dissection photographs by Jim Edmondson

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Dittrick Museum curator Jim Edmondson has a new book, Dissection, showing historical photographs of medical classes and their anatomical le...
Monday, April 6, 2009

What would it take to make a Civil War veteran happy?

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Money. But also an accordion "to drive away the dark clouds from my sickroom." I had a vague memory of this letter from twenty yea...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Anatomical Collections adds photos to Flickr

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Brian of our Anatomical Collections department is putting some cool photos up on Flickr too. Since we passed 500,000 viewers late last nigh...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Wired article drives visitors to Flickr site

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Last night around 10:20 we had 65,070 views. This morning at 4:45: 82,395. At 2pm: 173,792 views. At 7:15 pm: 246,540 views. At 7:36: 252,9...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Wired discovers the Museum's online photographs

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See "Rare Trove of Army Medical Photos Heads to Flickr," By Alexis Madrigal, Wired.com's Science blog March 17, 2009 and ...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Sharing historical photographs

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Boy, those Otis Historical Archives annual report segments are riveting, aren't they? But they're all about attempting to get inform...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Museum souvenir DIY

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Should you be looking to make … distinctive… holiday gifts, you can use the Museum’s public domain photos on Flickr and a printing company l...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

A couple of pictures

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Nothing special about these. They just appealed to me. CP4355, Travois Litter [in front of Capitol building, Washington, DC] by Capt JC McDo...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Blackhawk as sickbed reading, circa 1951

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Here's a picture that one of the assistant archivists brought to my attention today. This poor guy has a gunshot wound of his lower fem...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Photos aren't us

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As you've seen previously, last week Walter Reed blocked access to Flickr so we can't upload photographs for people to use or just ...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Today's discoveries

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Did I ever tell you how much I like my job? Sometimes there's too much of it, but usually it's a journey of interesting discoveries....
Monday, April 28, 2008

Anatomical Theatre: Medical Museum Images

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Came across this nice set of images (click on gallery) done by Joanna Ebenstein , a New York-based photographer and designer, during a one...