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Major H. A. Barnum, Recovery after a Penetrating Gunshot Wound of the Abdomen with Perforation of the Left Ilium, from the Photographic Catalogue of the Surgical Section
William Bell (born Liverpool, England 1830-died Philadelphia, PA 1910)
1865
- Medium
- albumen silver print
- Classification
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- sheet and image: 8 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. (21.6 x 16.8 cm.)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Graphic Arts
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
William Bell was a Philadelphia daguerreotypist who fought at Antietam and Gettysburg during the Civil War. In 1865, he was hired by the newly established Army Medical Museum in Washington to document the range of injuries and medical procedures among veterans. His catalogue of images helped establish the field of military medicine in the United States.Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
