Historical Indulgences

ca. 1861-65, [albumen portrait of wounded soldiers at Fredericksburg], Timothy O’Sullivan

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographs Collection

ca. 1847, [Reenactment of the First Public Demonstration of the Surgical Use of Ether], Southworth and Hawes

via Harvard University, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Department of Photographs

c. 1861-72, [portrait of a gentleman exhibiting an injured leg in brace with arched foot resting on an artificial foot], U.S. Sanitary Commission

via the New York Public Library, Civil War Medical Care: Photographs and Drawings from the United States Sanitary Commission Collection

c. 1861-72, [portrait of soldier James Brownlee with wounds in chest & abdomen], U.S. Sanitary Commission

via the New York Public Library, Civil War Medical Care: Photographs and Drawings from the United States Sanitary Commission Collection

ca. 1865, [Illustration showing male head in right profile with exposed muscles and veins of neck, with inserted metal probe], U.S. Sanitary Commission

via the New York Public Library, Civil War Medical Care: Photographs and Drawings from the United States Sanitary Commission Collection

ca. 1864, “Lt. Charles W. Hobbes, 7th New York Artillery, wounded during the Civil War at Cold Harbor, VA, June 3 1864”

via the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Otis Historical Archives on Flickr

ca. 1870, “SP 310: Cranium with an Iron Arrow-Head impacted in the left Temporal Bone”, George A. Otis

via the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Otis Historical Archives on Flickr

ca. 1870, [portrait of a blind produce vendor]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1850’s, [portrait of a blind gentleman]

via I Photo Central

ca. 1865, [Unidentified Girl with Hydrocephalus]

via the International Center of Photography