Private+Charles+Myer,+Amputation+of+the+Right+Thigh,+from+the+Photographic+Catalogue+of+the+Surgical+Section

Date: 1865
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1994/1994.91.18_1a.jpg?itok=9c6oIw1d width="232" height="290" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/private-charles-myer-amputation-right-thigh-photographic-catalogue-surgical-section-34129"]] || Title: **Private Charles Myer, Amputation of the Right Thigh, from the Photographic Catalogue of the Surgical Section**

Artist: **William Bell** Born: Liverpool, England 1830 Died: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1910

Medium: albumen print on paper mounted on paperboard Dimensions: sheet: 8 1/2 x 7 1/8 in. (21.6 x 18.1 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Accession: 1994.91.18 || This is part of a series of photographs taken to aid in medical research and improving medical practice on the war. Civil War was the first war documented using photography-- this had a huge impact on the home front and the kinds of information civilians had about the war.
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