Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)
Title:
[Elmer A. Snow] photographed at the Army Medical Museum ; by the order of the Surgeon General.
Contributor (Organization):
Army Medical Museum (U.S.)
Subject (Genre):
Photographs
Subject (MeSH Term):
Military Personnel
Subject (MeSH Term):
Wounds, Gunshot
Subject (MeSH Term):
American Civil War
Subject (MeSH Term):
Military Medicine
Publication Information:
[Washington, D.C.] : War Department, Surgeon General's Office, Army Medical Museum, 1879.
Publication Country:
United States
Copyright Statement:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Order No.:
B030326
Physical Description:
1 photographic print : albumen, b&w ; image 21 x 17 cm., on mount 31 x 26 cm.
Image Description:
Subject: Fully-clothed man stands facing the camera, wearing splints on his exposed wrists and right forearm.
Subject (Person):
Snow, Elmer A.
Note (General):
Picture caption: Photographs nos. 374 and 375: Surgical section: Recovery from gunshot fracture of right elbow and left wrist. Elmer A. Snow, a trumpeter of Co. M, 3d Cavalry, aged twenty-two years, was wounded in the engagement with the Indians near the Rosebud river, Montana Territory, June 17, 1876 ... He visited the Army Medical Museum and was photographed on February 25, 1879 ...
Note (General):
Part of a series of photographs and cases intended, at the behest of Surgeon General William Hammond, for publication in Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870-1888).
Note (General):
"Surgical photograph no. 375"--Printed on the mount.
Note (General):
Printed label ("2") and caption pasted on the mount.
Language:
eng
Restrictions on Access:
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Call Number:
PP059703 no. 2 alb
Record UI:
101573448

[Elmer A. Snow] photographed at the Army Medical Museum ; by the order of the Surgeo…

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