Embalming Surgeon at Work
Photograph
Taylor & Huntington
American
Embalming Surgeon at Work
From The War for the Union 1861–1865
ca. 1863
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 3 1/8 × 3 1/16 in. (7.9 × 7.8 cm)
Mount: 4 × 6 15/16 in. (10.1 × 17.7 cm)
Museum accession
1981.5971.0016
Inscriptions printed in black ink on mount recto, LC: 1861 / The War For the Union. / 1865 [sideways along edge]
printed in black ink on mount recto, BR: 2531. Embalming Surgeon at Work. \ [FOR DESCRIPTION OF THIS VIEW SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS CARD.]
printed in black ink on mount recto, RC: 1861 / Photographic War History. 1865 [sideways along edge]
printed in black ink on mount verso, RC: 2531. / Embalming Surgeon at Work. \ This view shows Dr. Burr, the embalming surgeon, engaged in \ the process of embalming a dead soldier. The veins are pumped \ full of some liquid, which possesses the power to arrest and pre- \ vent decay. Thus it was made possible to send to friends in the \ North the bodies of many hundreds of soldiers, which, but for- \ the science of embalming, could not have been permitted a grave \ in their native soil. \ 1861—PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY.—1865 \ This series of pictures are ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS taken [...] [sideways]
printed in black ink on mount recto, BR: 2531. Embalming Surgeon at Work. \ [FOR DESCRIPTION OF THIS VIEW SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS CARD.]
printed in black ink on mount recto, RC: 1861 / Photographic War History. 1865 [sideways along edge]
printed in black ink on mount verso, RC: 2531. / Embalming Surgeon at Work. \ This view shows Dr. Burr, the embalming surgeon, engaged in \ the process of embalming a dead soldier. The veins are pumped \ full of some liquid, which possesses the power to arrest and pre- \ vent decay. Thus it was made possible to send to friends in the \ North the bodies of many hundreds of soldiers, which, but for- \ the science of embalming, could not have been permitted a grave \ in their native soil. \ 1861—PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY.—1865 \ This series of pictures are ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS taken [...] [sideways]
