ca. 1880-1910, [albumen portrait of a eight veterinary students and an instructor performing a horse dissection]
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ca. 1880-1910, [albumen portrait of a eight veterinary students and an instructor performing a horse dissection]
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ca. 1875-95, [tintype portrait of a young man with a bandaged head]
ca. 1860’s, [carte de visite portrait of three young Federal soldier amputees all using hospital issue crutches. The boy at left wears a round metal identification disk pinned to his blouse], W. Snell
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ca. 1860-80’s, [tintype portrait of a dentist and his patient; accompanied by a carte de visite with an advertisement for “R.D. Neal, Ambrotype Artist and Dentist”.]
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ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a young man in his sick bed, possibly ill with measles or chicken pox], Lewis Jackson Stinson
ca. 1860-80, [carte de visite portrait of two blind musicians with their instruments], G. & J. Hall
ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of a dentist and his patient]
ca. 1854, [daguerreotype portrait of James Jackson, first physician to Massachusetts General Hospital, 1817-1837], Attributed to Southworth & Hawes
ca. 1860-70’s, [carte de visite portrait of a child with unilateral exophthalmos]
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ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a gentleman of slight stature in military dress], John A. Winberg
ca. 1881, [carte de visite portrait of Lucia Zarate], the London Stereoscopic Co.
Lucia Zarate was genuinely one of the smallest human beings ever recorded…During her period in London she appeared before Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace on February 26, 1881.
Handwritten on verso: “Greatest Wonder of the Age! Señorita Lucia Zarate, This young lady is 18 years of age, and weighs only 4¾ pounds. Is perfect in form and feature.”
ca. 1857, “The Anatomy Lesson with Dr. George Rolleston”, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is best known by his pen name Lewis Carroll and as the author of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. He was also a mathematics don at Christ Church, Oxford and a highly accomplished amateur photographer. He was particularly skilled at photographing his many ‘child-friends’ but also made numerous portraits of adults, including his Oxford colleagues.
Dodgson made this group portrait in the Anatomical Museum at Christ Church in 1857. Gathered around the skeleton of a fish are, from left to right, Dr. George Rolleston, professor of anatomy; William Robertson, demonstrator of anatomy; and undergraduates Augustus Vernon Harcourt and Heywood Smith.
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