Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)
Title:
Major H. A. Barnum photographed at the Army Medical Musem.
Contributor (Organization):
Army Medical Museum (U.S.)
Subject (Genre):
Photographs
Subject (MeSH Term):
Wounds, Gunshot
Subject (MeSH Term):
Ilium injuries
Subject (MeSH Term):
Military Personnel
Subject (MeSH Term):
American Civil War
Publication Information:
[Washington, D.C.] : Army Medical Museum, 1865.
Publication Country:
United States
Copyright Statement:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Order No.:
B030328
Physical Description:
1 photographic print : albumen, b&w ; image 22 x 17 cm., on mount 31 x 26 cm.
Image Description:
Subject: Subject stands in military uniform in front of a mirror placed on a chair. His shirt is raised and trousers lowered to reveal the wound.
Note (General):
Picture caption: Major H.A. Barnum, 12th New York Vols., was wounded at Malvern Hill, July 1st, 1862, by a conical musket ball, which entered midway between the umbilicus and the anterior superior spinous process of the left ilium, passed through the middle of the ilium, and emerged posteriorly ... The photograph was taken at the Army Medical Museum in August, 1865 ...
Note (General):
Printed label ("1") pasted on recto and caption pasted on verso of the mount.
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):
NLM copy: a MS. arrow in red ink indicates the trajectory of the bullet.
Language:
eng
Restrictions on Access:
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Call Number:
PP059703 no. 1 alb
Record UI:
101574958

Major H. A. Barnum photographed at the Army Medical Musem.

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