Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)
Title:
[Daniel Rich]
Contributor (Organization):
Army Medical Museum (U.S.)
Contributor (Organization):
Harewood Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
Creator:
Bontecou, Reed B. (Reed Brockway), 1824-1907, photographer.
Subject (Genre):
Photographs
Subject (MeSH Term):
Military Personnel
Subject (MeSH Term):
Wounds, Gunshot
Subject (MeSH Term):
American Civil War
Subject (MeSH Term):
Spinal Injuries
Publication Information:
[Washington, D.C. : Harewood General Hospital], 1865.
Publication Country:
United States
Copyright Statement:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Order No.:
B030333
Physical Description:
1 photographic print : albumen, b&w ; image 21 x 17 cm., on mount 31 x 25 cm.
Subject (Person):
Rich, Daniel, Private.
Note (General):
Picture caption: Photograph no. 373, surgical section, recovery from penetrating wound of chest with lodgment of missile in spinal column. Private Daniel Rich, Co. B, 55th Pennsylvania Volunteers, twenty-one years of age, was wounded in the chest at the battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, October 22, 1862, a ball entering the sternum ... The photograph is a copy of the original taken at the Harewood Hospital, Washington, in November, 1865, and contributed by Surgeon R.B. Bontecou ....
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):
Printed label ("6") and caption pasted on the photograph.
Language:
eng
Restrictions on Access:
HMD provides access to digital images in lieu of originals when electronic copies exist. Access to originals may require advance notice. Please see HMD Reference Librarian for more information.
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Call Number:
PP059703 no. 6 alb
Record UI:
101574215

[Daniel Rich]

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