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Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

From Anderson’s Holler – A World War II medical photographer’s story- available now

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From Anderson’s Holler – A World War II medical photographer’s story- available now A memoir of growing up in the hills of West Virgi...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Letter of the Day: March 13

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De Camp General Hospital, U.S.A., Davids’ Island, New York Harbor, Mar. 13 th 1866   My dear Doctor,   I have sent by Adams Express Co. to ...
Monday, September 6, 2010

Letter of the Day: September 6

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Dear Doctor: I have been called upon to give testimony in a criminal case - in which there is a bullet wound of the head with extensive frac...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Letter of the Day: July 23

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Surgeon General’s Office Washington City, D.C. July 23d 1866   Prof. H.L. Smith   Dear Sir,   Yours of the 19 th came dul...
Friday, July 2, 2010

Letter of the Day: July 2 - Civil War photography

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Washington, D.C. July 2, 1885 Mr. Trout Please deliver to bearer sixty of the Wilderness negatives. He will designate the sixty wanted. You...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Letter of the Day: April 26 - the Peabody Museum sends thanks

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  Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University   F.W. Putnam, Curator of the Museum,   Cambridge,...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Letter of the Day: April 19 - photographer job?

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Office Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Representatives U.S., Washington, D.C., April 19, 1888   Dr. Billings –   Dear Sir –   M...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Letter of the Day: January 29 (4 of 5)

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Numbered Correspondence 1215   January 29, 1896   Mr. Wayland F. Reynolds, Clarksburg, W. Va.   Dear Sir:   In answer to...

Letter of the Day: January 29 (1 of 5)

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The photographs he refers to have not been catalogued and may no longer exist. Darn it.   County Clerk’s Office John C. Johnston, ...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Jim Edmondson on 'Dissection' on Lopate radio show

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Leonard Lopate Show / December 07, 2009 Dissection Author James Edmonson, Chief Curator of the Dittrick Medical Center and Museum at Case We...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Blog tip - Civil War Medicine (and Writing)

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Steven Solomon, our former public affairs officer, pointed out this Civil War Medicine (and Writing) blog to me today. At my first quick g...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

On a couple of nondescript stereographs

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Here's a couple of stereographs I bought over the weekend, due to their rough relationship to the Museum: The 'Dutch Courtship' ...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

New Walter Reed hospital photo book by Archives staff

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The Museum’s Archives staff supported the publication of these two new books from the Borden Institute that feature the history of Walter R...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Dissection photos book review

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This book by Jim Edmondson and John Harley Warner was quite a hit when I carried my copy into work today. Here's what another medical hi...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Plastic surgery exhibit in NYC

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This rolled in over the e-transom today. I'm not sure yet how I feel about it the idea, but I think it would be an interesting show. - M...
Friday, January 2, 2009

Photographs of Museum specimens on French blog

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Morbid Anatomy tipped me to E-l-i-s-e's blog post on photographs of specimens taken at the Museum. It looks like some of these were sh...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The Burns Archive

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We are very fortunate to have a generous friend to the archives: Stanley Burns, M.D., a New York ophthalmologist and proprietor of the Burns...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Limb lab continuation - that Civil War amputee

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In a paper for Invisible Culture 5 - "Shooting Soldiers: Civil War Medical Images, Memory, and Identity in America," by J.T.H. Con...
Thursday, July 10, 2008

A Flickr / Getty Images deal in the works?

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Somehow I stumbled across a report today that says Getty Images , one of the mammoth stock-image companies, is in talks with Flickr about ...