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W.B. Francis
Bladder stones
1845 (ca)
Salted paper print

Norfolk Heritage Centre

LL/52912 [Further details available]

1 of 77

Louisa Walters, photographed in 1868, twenty-eight years after being operated on at age twelve to remove her leg at the hip.
n.d.

Joint Pathology Center (JPC)
(Army Medical Museum Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens, or simply Surgical Photographs 287).

LL/6952

2 of 77

George Edward Shuttleworth
George Edward Shuttleworth holding a male child, showing signs of Down's syndrome, upon his lap
1895
Albumen print (?)
9.7 x 7.6 cm (sheet)

Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0030003, Library reference no.: ICV No 30486)

LL/36762 [Further details available]

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Wilhelm Scharmann (Berlin)
Two dwarfs from Burma, standing next to a bottle
n.d.
Carte de visite
6.5 x 4.6 cm

Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0007436, Library reference no.: ICV No 7656)

LL/36774 [Further details available]

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Thirty-seven-year-old Boston woman's pre-operative tumors of her breasts
n.d.

Joint Pathology Center (JPC)
Formerly: Army Medical Museum, CP 2027

LL/6953

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James Wallace Black
Enchondroma of the scapula
1863
Albumen print
29.5 x 23.1 cm (11 5/8 x 9 1/8 ins)

Princeton University Art Museum
Museum purchase, anonymous gift, Object Number: 2008-62

LL/44692

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Doctor and suspended patient
1877
Woodburytype
11.6 x 8.3 cm

George Eastman Museum
Record Id: 1999:0112:0010

LL/35659 [Further details available]

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Doctor and suspended patient
1877
Woodburytype
11.6 x 8.6 cm

George Eastman Museum
Record Id: 1999:0112:0017

LL/35660 [Further details available]

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Unknown (American)
Study of a woman with spinal Injury in Traction
1900
Cabinet card

Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm

LL/20620

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Unidentified photographer
Photogram of a male torso (France)
1910
Cyanotype
90.8 x 35.2 cm

AnamorFose

LL/10643

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Man with Smallpox.
n.d.

National Museum of Health and Medicine
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington (Reeve 48135)

LL/6964

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Werner Bischof
Town of Hiroshima. A victim of the Hiroshima atomic explosion, Japan
1951
Gelatin silver print

Silverstein Photography

LL/5512

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Unidentified photographer
Alopecia
1940
Photo postcard, gelatin

Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm

LL/18076

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Full-thickness flaps being closed over metal plate in casualty with huge skull defect
n.d.

National Museum of Health and Medicine
National Museum of Health and Medicine (NCP 1690).

LL/6969

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Unknown (American)
Photobooth portrait
1940
Gelatin silver print, photobooth

Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm

LL/20632

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SP310 Cranium with an Iron Arrow-Head impacted in the left Temporal Bone
1870, 30 Sept (after)
Albumen print

National Museum of Health and Medicine

LL/31921 [Further details available]

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Syphilis of skull. Path. [pathological] series #14763. World War 1 era.
n.d.

National Museum of Health and Medicine

LL/31923 [Further details available]

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Unidentified photographer
Trephined skull excavated at Jericho in 1958 [Tomb 88] by Dr. Kathleen Kenyon, C.B.E., Director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.
1958 (later)
Gelatin silver print

Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0004561, Library reference no.: Museum No. 277/1959)

LL/36763 [Further details available]

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Unidentified photographer
A cross-section of a human brain
1880s (late)
Platinum print
7 1/8 x 5 3/8 ins

Cornell University Library
Burt Green Wilder Collection

LL/44747 [Further details available]

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Unknown (French)
From a series of ostopathic studies
1916 (ca)
Gelatin silver print

Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm

LL/20426

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Unidentified photographer
After the war
1945
Gelatin silver print, snapshot

Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm

LL/18077

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Keystone View Company
Woman Bearing Stigmata
1930
Gelatin silver print

Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm

LL/20622

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Hands of former professional baseball player, Douglas Allison, showing results of baseball playing, Palmar surface
1889, 12 February

National Museum of Health and Medicine
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington (NS30)

LL/6960

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Hands of former professional baseball player, Douglas Allison, showing results of baseball playing, Dorsal surface.
1889, 12 February

National Museum of Health and Medicine
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington (NS30)

LL/6961

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Wax models of hands, used in an exhibit at the Army Medical Museum.
n.d.

National Museum of Health and Medicine

LL/31922 [Further details available]

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Orthopedics; feet of Chinese woman, bound, compared with tea cup and American woman's shoe. World War 1 era
n.d.

National Museum of Health and Medicine

LL/31925 [Further details available]

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E.P. Minett
The foot of a 43 year-old, 4ft. 8 in., Chinese woman, showing the effect of foot binding with the broken (high) arch, under wrapped toes and cone shape heel.
1920s (ca)
X-ray

Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0031188, Iconographic Collections 644751i)

LL/36729

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Eben Smith [nineteen years old]
1867, July

Joint Pathology Center (JPC)
(Army Medical Museum Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens, or simply Surgical Photographs 203).

LL/6948

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William H. Bell
Major General Henry Barnum displaying his gunshot to the abdomen and hip
1865 Aug

Joint Pathology Center (JPC)
(Army Medical Museum Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens, or simply Surgical Photographs 93).

LL/6950

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Photograph provided by Barnum in support of his pension claim
n.d.

Joint Pathology Center (JPC)
(NCP 3787; from Pension File 78753, National Archives)

LL/6951

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Private George Lemon, ex-prisoner of war of the Confederates, survived a complete amputation of his leg at the hip after returning to the Union
n.d.

Joint Pathology Center (JPC)
(Army Medical Museum Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens, or simply Surgical Photographs 137B).

LL/6954

31 of 77

Lemon, made for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, a leaf has been painted on the original negative over his genitals.
n.d.

Joint Pathology Center (JPC)
(Army Medical Museum Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens, or simply Surgical Photographs 137A).

LL/6955

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Private John Wallace has a leaf tied around his waist to hide his genitals
n.d.

Joint Pathology Center (JPC)
(Army Medical Museum Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens, or simply Surgical Photographs - ID not secure).

LL/6956

33 of 77

Alfred Stratton, pensioned at twenty-five dollars a month and provided with artificial arms
1869, 24 December

Joint Pathology Center (JPC)
(Army Medical Museum Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens, or simply Surgical Photographs - 262).

LL/6957

34 of 77

Injured Soldier Jacob Hertzog, and his prosthetic brace, became an impromptu model in an advertisement when Hudson contributed this annotated mounted picture to the Museum
n.d.

Joint Pathology Center (JPC)
Formerly: Army Medical Museum, CP 1545

LL/6958

35 of 77

Clinical photograph of Harold Russell, taken while he was being treated at the Army's Walter Reed General Hospital. Russell would later star in the film The Best Years of Our Lives and win an Academy Award
n.d.

Location and source information requested
(NCP 1598B).

LL/6959

36 of 77

Unidentified photographer
Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: wounded soldier - 10 inch gash from sword at Verdun in 1st world war
1916
Gelatin silver print
8.7 x 6.2 cm

Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0029390, Library reference no.: ICV No 29867)

LL/36777

37 of 77

Necrosis and Exfoliation and Deposits of Spongy Callus after a Gunshot Fracture of the Left Femur
1870 (ca)

Joint Pathology Center (JPC)
(Army Medical Museum Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens, or simply Surgical Photographs 244).

LL/6949

38 of 77

A set of vulcanite dentures worn by Gen. John J. (Blackjack) Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during the First World War.
n.d.
Color print

National Museum of Health and Medicine
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington (M-500 00055)

LL/6963

39 of 77

Unidentified photographer
Dentist and his patient
1860s (ca)
Tintype

Location and source information requested

LL/6947

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Frank Wendt
Francesco Lentini
n.d.
Cabinet card

Private collection of Laddy Kite

LL/35968 [Further details available]

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Conjoined twins
n.d.

National Museum of Health and Medicine
National Museum of Health and Medicine

LL/6970

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Unidentified photographer
Conjoined twins in nappies
n.d.
Gelatin silver print

Private collection

LL/33863 [Further details available]

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Obermuller & Sons (888 Bowery, N.Y.)
Conjoined twins in Christmas attire
n.d.
Gelatin silver print

Private collection

LL/33864 [Further details available]

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T.A. Beach
The conjoined twins Mina and Minnie Finley
n.d.
Carte de visite

J. Cosmas Vintage Photography

LL/32643 [Further details available]

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Plate XVII. the Carolina Twins
1870-1871
Magazine page, albumen print, tipped in

Google Books

LL/35828 [Further details available]

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Chang and Eng
n.d.
Carte de visite

Private collection of Laddy Kite

LL/35974 [Further details available]

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William H. Bell
Unidentified man with ptosis (drooping of an eyelid)
n.d.
Daguerreotype

National Museum of Health and Medicine
This purchase for the William Bell collection was made by the Museum with the support of Frederic A. Sharf.

LL/31926 [Further details available]

48 of 77

Unidentified photographer
Eye operation [Italian]
n.d.
Carte de visite

Collection of Michael G. Jacob

LL/42279

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Linda Neville
Portrait of a blind girl
n.d.
Lantern slide

Kentucky Virtual Library
University of Kentucky, Linda Neville (1873-1961), Charles Kerr, and Neville Family Papers, 1847-1959 (kukav:61m158:478)

LL/7966

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Arthur de Montmeja
Illustration from "Traité des Opérations qui se pratiquent sur l'oeil" by Edouard Meyer and Dr. A. de Montmeja (Paris: Lauwereyns)
1871
Book illustration

Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Dec 7, 2006, #2097, Lot 205)

LL/15969

52 of 77

Unknown artist (American School)
[Blind Man Wearing Dark Glasses]
1850s
Daguerreotype
10.8 x 8.3 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 ins)

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift and Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift, 2008, Accession Number: 2008.15

LL/40526

53 of 77

Unknown Artist (American School)
[Blind Man and His Reader]
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype
9.1 x 6.6 cm (3 9/16 x 2 5/8 ins) (mount) 12 x 9.4 cm (4 3/4 x 3 11/16 ins) (case)

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.271

LL/40557

54 of 77

Unidentified photographer
A plague house in Kaladevi Road, Bombay
1896
Albumen print
19.7 x 25.9 cm

Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0029850, Library reference no.: ICV No 30332)

LL/36784 [Further details available]

55 of 77

Unidentified photographer
A celebratory dance for discharged patients, during the bubonic plague outbreak in Karachi, India
1897
Albumen print (?)
21.1 x 28.4 cm

Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0029283, Library reference no.: ICV No 29759)

LL/36793

56 of 77

Unidentified photographer
Famine in India: five emaciated children; a girl sitting and four boys lying on a mat.
1876-1878
Print

Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0029718, Library reference no.: ICV No 30199)

LL/36791

57 of 77

Unidentified photographer
Famine in India: a group of emaciated young men wearing loin cloths and a woman wearing a sari
1876-1878
Print
15.1 x 20.6 cm

Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0029717, Library reference no.: ICV No 30198)

LL/36792

58 of 77

Thromboangiitis obliterans
n.d.
X-ray

National Museum of Health and Medicine

LL/31929 [Further details available]

59 of 77

Mutilation - self castigation. Graphophone needles
n.d.
X-ray

National Museum of Health and Medicine

LL/31930 [Further details available]

60 of 77

Four x-ray views of footbinding
1948 (ca)
X-ray

National Museum of Health and Medicine

LL/31928 [Further details available]

61 of 77

Untitled [x-ray of a hand]
1900 (ca)
Silver bromide print, x-ray

Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm

LL/33935

62 of 77

H.J Hickman
World War One, France: a radiographer wearing protective clothing and headpiece
1918 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
13.8 x 8.6 cm

Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0050611)

LL/36776

63 of 77

Unidentified photographer
Phineas Gage with the iron rod that went through his skull in 1848. He lived 11 more years after the accident.
n.d.
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate

Warren Anatomical Museum, Center for the History of Medicine

LL/32591 [Further details available]

64 of 77

Hardy & Montmeja
Clinique Photographique de l'hopital Saint-Louis
1868
Book plate

Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4645)

LL/32580 [Further details available]

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Hardy & Montmeja
Clinique Photographique de l'hopital Saint-Louis
1868
Book plate

Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4645)

LL/32574 [Further details available]

66 of 77

Hardy & Montmeja
Clinique Photographique de l'hopital Saint-Louis
1868
Book plate

Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4645)

LL/32575 [Further details available]

67 of 77

Hardy & Montmeja
Clinique Photographique de l'hopital Saint-Louis
1868
Book plate

Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4645)

LL/32576 [Further details available]

68 of 77

Hardy & Montmeja
Clinique Photographique de l'hopital Saint-Louis
1868
Book plate

Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4645)

LL/32577 [Further details available]

69 of 77

Hardy & Montmeja
Clinique Photographique de l'hopital Saint-Louis
1868
Book plate

Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4645)

LL/32578 [Further details available]

70 of 77

Hardy & Montmeja
Clinique Photographique de l'hopital Saint-Louis
1868
Book plate

Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4645)

LL/32579 [Further details available]

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Bibliographic entry for "the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65" (Washington, 1870-1888)
n.d.
Bibliographic entry

Google Books

LL/35831

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W.H. Rhoads
Operations for Contracted Cicatrices
1888 (before)
Book illustrations

Google Books

LL/35832 [Further details available]

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Mr Alexander
La lecon d'anatomie
n.d.
Heliogravure

Private collection of Manuel Magalhaes

LL/36518 [Further details available]

74 of 77

The new M2A Capsule, a pill endoscope, created by Given Imaging Ltd
n.d.

National Museum of Health and Medicine
National Museum of Health and Medicine

LL/6971

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Egg surrounded by sperm
n.d.

National Museum of Health and Medicine
National Museum of Health and Medicine

LL/6973

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A scoliotic spine
n.d.

National Museum of Health and Medicine
National Museum of Health and Medicine

LL/6972

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77 images

Years

1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860
1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871
1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882
1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926
1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Photographers

PhV	T.A. Beach
PhV	William H. Bell
PhV	Werner Bischof
PhV	James Wallace Black
PhV	W.B. Francis
PhV	Hardy & Montmeja
PhV	Keystone View Company
PhV	Arthur de Montmeja
PhV	W.H. Rhoads
PhV	Frank Wendt

Contents - Themes & Fragments

PhV	1860-1880 - Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
PhV	Albumen prints - Albumen prints: Objects
PhV	Albumen prints - Albumen prints: War
PhV	American Civil War (1861-1865) - Major General Henry Barnum
PhV	American Civil War (1861-1865) - Private George Lemon
PhV	American Civil War (1861-1865) - William H. Bell: Medical injuries during the American Civil War
PhV	Back - Portrait: Parts of the body: Back: Single person
PhV	Breasts - Parts of the body: Breasts
PhV	Cameras - Historical changes in the size of cameras
PhV	Cartes de visite - Cartes de visite: Scientific
PhV	Catastrophes - Natural catastrophes
PhV	Catastrophes - Willoughby Wallace Hooper: Indian famine (1876-1878)
PhV	Concealment with masks and veils - Fashion: Accessories: Masks
PhV	Cyanotypes - Cyanotypes: Examples
PhV	Cyanotypes - Cyanotypes: Scientific
PhV	Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Scientific
PhV	Expeditions and exploration - Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
PhV	Eyes - Parts of the body: Eyes
PhV	Eyes - William H. Bell: Unidentified man with ptosis (drooping of an eyelid)
PhV	Famines - Willoughby Wallace Hooper: Indian famine (1876-1878)
PhV	Fashion - Eyewear
PhV	Fashion - Footwear
PhV	Feet - Footwear
PhV	First World War (1914-1918) - Introduction to the First World War (1914-1918)
PhV	First World War (1914-1918) - Medical and nursing during the First World War (1914-1918)
PhV	Gelatin silver prints - Gelatin silver prints: War
PhV	Hands - Parts of the body: Hands
PhV	Illustrated magazines - Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery (1870-?)
PhV	Illustrated magazines and photojournalism - Introduction to illustrated magazines and photojournalism
PhV	India - India: Bombay (Mumbai)
PhV	India - Willoughby Wallace Hooper: Indian famine (1876-1878)
PhV	Japan - War: Atomic explosions: Hiroshima
PhV	Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
PhV	Landscape photography and natural catastrophes - Natural catastrophes
PhV	Lantern slides - Magic lantern slides
PhV	Legs - Parts of the body: Legs
PhV	Leisure - Leisure: Fairgrounds, sideshows, carnivals and circuses
PhV	Literature - Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
PhV	Magic lanterns - Magic lantern slides
PhV	Medical - A. Hardy and A. de Montméja: Clinique Photographique de l'hopital Saint-Louis
PhV	Medical - Conjoined twins
PhV	Medical - Contemporary medical imaging
PhV	Medical - Dentistry and dentists
PhV	Medical - Early medical operations and surgery
PhV	Medical - Introduction to medical photography
PhV	Medical - Major General Henry Barnum
PhV	Medical - Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery (1870-?)
PhV	Medical - Private George Lemon
PhV	Medical - Sideshow performers, living museums and circus acts
PhV	Medical - William H. Bell: Medical injuries during the American Civil War
PhV	Military - Introduction to military portraits
PhV	Military - Major General Henry Barnum
PhV	Military - Private George Lemon
PhV	Nature - Contemporary examples of nature photography
PhV	Non-canonical photography - Photobooth portraits
PhV	Nuclear - War: Atomic explosions: Hiroshima
PhV	Photobooths - Photobooth portraits
PhV	Photobooths - Photobooth strips
PhV	Photomicroscopy - Photomicroscopy and the quest for the ever smaller image
PhV	Portrait - Photobooth portraits
PhV	Rooms and their contents - Mirrors and Windows
PhV	Scientific - Contemporary scientific imagery
PhV	Scientific - Daguerreotypes: Scientific
PhV	Second World War (1939-1945) - War: Atomic explosions: Hiroshima
PhV	Self-portraits - Photobooth portraits
PhV	Skeletons - Parts of the body: Skulls
PhV	Skulls - Parts of the body: Skulls
PhV	Social outsiders - Sideshow performers, living museums and circus acts
PhV	Sports - Baseball
PhV	Tipped-in photographs and magazines and journals illustrated with photographs - Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery (1870-?)
PhV	Travel - Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
PhV	Trends - The rise of digital photography
PhV	Twins - Conjoined twins
PhV	Vernacular - Introduction to vernacular photography
PhV	Vernacular - Photobooth portraits
PhV	Vernacular - Photobooth strips
PhV	X-rays - Introduction to X-rays

PhV	19th Century Photographic Studios: Properties, accessories and novelties
PhV	19th Century Printed Illustrations based on Photographs
PhV	Abstract: Lines - Diagonals from the upper left to the lower right
PhV	Changes in the sizes of cameras and equipment
PhV	Cyanotypes
PhV	Documentary: 19th Century Documentary Projects
PhV	Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen?
PhV	Portrait: An Aversion to Face
PhV	Portrait: Back view
PhV	Portrait: Parts of body: Hands
PhV	Portrait: Parts of body: Skull
PhV	Scientific: Contemporary
PhV	Scientific: Medical
PhV	Scientific: X-rays
PhV	Vernacular photography: Photobooths