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Scientific: X-rays
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1.Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen
1895
The shadows of a concealed wire wound on a wooden spool, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. von Röntgen, 1895.

X-ray
18.1 x 13 cm
 
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0029524, Library reference no.: ICV No 30004)
 
LL/36725
2.Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen
1895
Unloading apparatus with leaden cage, viewed under x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. von Röntgen

X-ray
18.1 x 13 cm
 
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0029521, Library reference no.: ICV No 30001)
 
LL/36726
3.Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen
1896, 23 January
X-ray picture of the hand of Alfred von Kolliker

X-ray
Source requested
[Public domain image]
 
LL/6838
4.Sir Arthur Schuster
1895
The bones of a frog, viewed through x-ray; revealing a healing fracture on one of the hind legs. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.

X-ray
16.4 x 12 cm
 
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0029531, Library reference no.: ICV No 30011)
 
LL/36727
5.Sir Arthur Schuster
1895
A snake in the process of swallowing a small mammal, probably a mouse, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.

X-ray
20.7 x 15.5 cm
 
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0029552, Library reference no.: ICV No 30032)
 
The print was made in 1896 under the direction of the British physicist, Sir Arthur Schuster (1851-1934). Schuster was then a professor at Owen's College (now part of the University of Manchester). He was one of the first to receive the offprint of an article entitled "_ber eine neue Art von Strahlen", along with a set of prints from W.K. Röntgen (1845-1923), the German physicist who discovered x-rays in 1895. Sir Arthur's daughter Dr. Nora H. Schuster presented the prints to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1962
 
LL/36728
6.Josef Maria Eder
1896
Aesculap-Snake

Photogravure (Early X-Ray)
27.5 x 22 cm (11 x 8.5 )
 
Galerie Johannes Faber
LL/1719
7.Josef Maria Eder
1886
Zwei Goldfische und ein Seefisch (Christiceps argentatus)

Photogravure print from x-ray negative
19 x 14 cm
 
George Eastman Museum
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company; ex-collection of Josef Maria Eder
 
LL/50386
8.Eder & Valenta
1896
X-ray study of two goldfish and a saltwater fish

Photogravure
British Library
© British Library
 
LL/6477
9.Ernst Sonntag
1896
Graphic effects caused by x-rays

X-ray
Source requested
[Further information sought]
 
LL/7527
10.Albert Peignot
1896, July
Radiographie de divers modeles de tubes de Crookes et de Geisler

Aristotype
23 x 17 cm
 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
Estampes et Photographie. Eo 313b bo¯te folio. Don du liquidateur de l'Association du musée des photographies documentaires, 1907
 
LL/7200
11.Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton
1896, 13 January (taken)
Print from the first X-ray of the human hand made in England

X-ray
National Science and Media Museum
The Royal Photographic Society, Ref Number: 2003-5001/2/20187
 
LL/41854
12.Ernest Payne
1896 (ca)
X-ray photograph of a foot in a shoe

Gelatin silver print, x-ray
National Science and Media Museum
The Royal Photographic Society, Ref Number: 2003-5001/2/1077
 
LL/41851
13.John Hall-Edwards (British, 1858-1926)
1897
Midland Tyre (as photographed by the Röntgen Rays)

Gelatin silver print, on lettered mount
image: 16.5 x 21.6 cm (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 ins) mount: 36.2 x 33 cm (14 1/4 x 13 ins)
 
Princeton University Art Museum
Museum purchase, anonymous gift in honor of Peter C. Bunnell, Object Number: 2006-90
 
For another copy: Rijksmuseum, Object number: RP-F-2016-108
hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.650209
 
LL/44691
14.Bernard Heon
1897
X-Ray of Pelvis

Cyanotype
11 in x 8 3/4 in (27.94 cm x 22.23 cm)
 
SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund (2000.192)
 
LL/7160
15.1897, March
An early picture repeated. Exposure, two and a half seconds

Magazine illustration, x rays
Google Books
D.W. Hering "A Year of the X Rays" in Popular Science, March, 1897, p.654-662.
 
LL/35804
16.1896, April
X-Ray of the hand

Magazine illustration
Google Books
John Trowbridge "The X Rays", Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April, 1896, p.771-779, illustration after page 776.
 
LL/36620
17.Wilson Nobel
1898 (ca)
Radiographie d'un pied, Paris

Collodion printing-out paper, from glass radiograph negative
36.3 x 28.4 cm
 
CEROS - Jean-Mathieu Martini / Serge Plantureux
Binoche et Giquello, épreuves choisies, 18 november 2010, lot no: 192
 
Annotated on frame backing board.
 
LL/41134
18.Unidentified photographer / artist
1948 (ca)
Four x-ray views of footbinding

X-ray
National Museum of Health and Medicine
This image was posted to Flickr in Feb 22, 2009. - otisarchives1 / Otis Historical Archives Nat'l Museum of Health & Medicine
 
LL/31928
19.Unidentified photographer / artist
n.d.
Thromboangiitis obliterans

X-ray
National Museum of Health and Medicine
This image was posted to Flickr in Feb 21, 2009. - otisarchives1 / Otis Historical Archives Nat'l Museum of Health & Medicine
 
LL/31929
20.Unidentified photographer / artist
n.d.
Mutilation - self castigation. Graphophone needles

X-ray
National Museum of Health and Medicine
This image was posted to Flickr in Feb 21, 2009. - otisarchives1 / Otis Historical Archives Nat'l Museum of Health & Medicine
 
LL/31930
21.Unidentified photographer (French)
n.d.
X-ray of a baby

X-ray
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41572
22.Unknown (French)
n.d.
X-ray of an uncertain species

X-ray
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41575
23.Nahum Ellan Luboshez
1910 (ca)
X-Ray of Skull

X-ray
29.8 x 24.7 cm
 
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
HRC
 
LL/6121
24.Unknown (American)
1910
X-ray of an aneurysm

Gelatin silver print, x-ray
Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm
LL/20629
25.Unidentified photographer / artist
1911
The bones of the hand of Mrs F. Bridgeman, wearing a finger ring, showing a broken wrist. Photograph of X-ray, 1911

X-ray
29.1 x 19.3 cm (sheet)
 
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0047928, Library reference no.: Iconographic Collection 662326i)
 
LL/36724
26.Unidentified radiologist
1912, 14 October (or later)
X-Ray of Roosevelt

X-ray
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
George Grantham Bain Collection, Call Number: LC-B2- 2449-2
 
In 2011 David Cory pointed out on the Library of Congress Flickr page for this image that it has been retouched "big-time" with the ribs drawn in and the bullet outlined.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
(Accessed: 14 March 2012)
 
While Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on October 14, 1912, a saloonkeeper named John Schrank shot him, but the bullet lodged in his chest only after penetrating his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he was not coughing blood, the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung, and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt. He spoke for 90 minutes. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." Afterwards, probes and x-ray showed that the bullet had traversed three inches (76 mm) of tissue and lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle but did not penetrate the pleura, and it would be more dangerous to attempt to remove the bullet than to leave it in place. Roosevelt carried it with him for the rest of his life.
 
LL/47181
27.Unidentified photographer / artist
1900 (ca)
X-Ray of the hand of a 25-year old man (Central Laboratory of Radiology, Paris).

X-ray, printing-out paper print
9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in (24.1 x 17.1 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Feb 7, 2008, #2135, Lot 48)
 
With notations about the patient, the doctor's signature and the hospital hand stamp on mount and print recto.
 
LL/27097
28.Unidentified photographer
1900 (ca)
X-ray photograph of a door

Gelatin silver print, x-ray, on thin Eastman-Kodak paper
16.3 x 12.1 cm
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Photography 19th-21st Century (1 June 2011) Lot: 4419
 
LL/43776
29.Unknown artist
1916
[X Ray, Broken Right Femur]

Gelatin silver print
40 x 29.9 cm (15 3/4 x 11 3/4 ins)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Denise and Andrew Saul Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.136
 
LL/40547
30.Unidentified photographer / artist
n.d.
President Harding's Hand

X-ray
Private collection of Nigel Maister
LL/15127
31.E.P. Minett
1920s (ca)
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.

X-ray
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0031188, Iconographic Collections 644751i)
 
LL/36729
32.Unidentified radiographer
1966
[Grenade embedded in forehead. Vietnam war]

X-ray
National Museum of Health and Medicine
LL/31933
33.Dain L. Tasker
1933
Dance of the Daffodils

Silver-bromide contact print (from an X-ray)
11 1/4 x 9 1/4 in (28.6 x 23.5 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Sale 2208 Lot 63
 
With Tasker's signature, title and date, in pencil, on mount recto.
 
LL/35596
34.Unidentified photographer / artist
1896, September
X Rays in Surgery

Magazine page
Google Books
"X Rays in Surgery", Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September, 1896, pp. 711-712.
 

 
LL/36619
   
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