BurnsArchive.com
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THE BURNS ARCHIVE
Description
The Burns Collection houses the nation's largest and most comprehensive collection of early medical photography (1840-1920). The Archive offers publishers, exhibitors, authors, researchers and the media its consultation services and the use of its images, as well as of its extensive library of medical history.
Photographs from the Collection have been used in more than 100 exhibitions, 20 feature films, and in television shows and videos. They have also appeared in a wide variety of publications, from scientific journals to children's textbooks.
The Burns Collection contains over 60,000 original medical photographs. Many of these photographs are unique images: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes of the 1840-1860 era. The vast majority of the photographs depict patients with diseases long since conquered, and medical treatments, technologies and practices long since outmoded. They show hospital and nursing personnel at work, along with related health care practitioners. The Collection houses a wide range of original nineteenth century photos of physicians and patients in contemporary clinical settings, including many medical firsts and famous cases. Personalities and events not believed to have been photographed are here preserved. The Collection holds the only known photographs of practicing phrenologists, blood letting and skull trephination.
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English
Address
- 140 E 38th St
- NY 10016 USA
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