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TITLE:  Surgical photograph ... prepared under the supervision of ... War Department, Surgeon General's Office, Army Medical Museum

CALL NUMBER:  Civil War Reference File [item] [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-10106 (digital file from original print)
LC-B8184-10377 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Photographs show two men displaying amputated leg wounds and two skulls with bullet holes. Upper right: skull of Edward Volk, private, Company D, 55th Ohio Volunteers (Surgical photo 212). Lower left: Eben Smith, Civil War veteran (Surgical photo 029). Lower right: John Schranz, Private, 7th Austrian Feldjagers (Surgial photo 247). (Source: M. Rhode, Army Medical Museum, 2009)

MEDIUM:  4 photographic prints (1 page).

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed later]

NOTES:

Title from item.

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

SUBJECTS:

Disabled veterans--1860-1870.
Skulls--1860-1870.
Soldiers--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical aspects.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel.

FORMAT:

Portrait photographs 1860-1870.
Photographic prints 1860-1870.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original print) ppmsca 10106 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.10106

CONTROL #:  2005696470


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