Photographs of the Northwestern University medical school campus, buildings, treatment facilities, and a number of patients posed in various therapeutic positions or rehabilitative devices.
Very good +.
Price: $500.00
Also included are snapshots of young medical students lounging in empty patient wards, gowned for procedures, and posing for portraits. A few hospital-affiliated women are shown, some apparently nurses (women were refused admittance to Northwestern's medical school until 1926, and then limited to four per entering class.) The photographer, likely a med student himself, closes the album with scenes of his family and friends.
Among the patients photographed are a young boy, his jaw heavily bandaged, apparently following some form of reconstructive surgery; a young woman reclining in a wheeled chair; a man supine on a metal table with an oxygen tank underneath, in the course of getting a chest x-ray; and a woman standing in a complex device, head listed by a chin-strap and arms on two supportive bars. Nearly all are smiling, aware of the camera, and seem to be willing and eager participants in the picture-taking process. A unified and intimate collection of Depression-era medical images.
[Evanston, IL]: n.p, [ca. 1920s]. Oblong string-tied 8vo album. Flexible black cloth covers, gilt-stamped. Rubbing and chipping of cloth to back cover. 76 black and white photographs mounted to sixteen black leaves, recto and verso. An additional four leaves are blank. Album very good; photographs very good plus.
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