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In Reply: Among the holdings of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) History of Medicine division is an elaborate photograph album dating from the American Civil War. Its gilt-edged cardboard pages contain 136 photographs produced by the studios of Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner portraying the various aspects of the United States' bloodiest conflict. The album was a gift to Miss Anna Lowell in 1864 from the attendants at Armory Square Hospital, a long-vanished Washington, DC, institution.

The prints are small; they would currently be called wallet-sized. Each fits into a precut window on the page. The back lists a caption, the studio name (Brady or Gardner), and a series number. Brady's album gallery No. 321 bears the caption "Soldiers' Graves at Bull Run" and shows a bearded man with a frock coat and tall hat looking over the fresh graves. The first Battle of Bull Run (first Manassas in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Stephen J. Greenberg, MSLS, PhD
greenbes@mail.nlm.nih.gov
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, Maryland

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