# 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

- By: William Bell (born Liverpool, England 1830-died Philadelphia, PA 1910)
- Date: 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.)
- 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
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=34125)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/ac33382f2e37120260787bb86d819be1.jpg
- Who can see it: Adult profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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