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Order of the black hand

From collodion to creepy, all things that make me doubletake.

  • tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1861-65, [tintype portrait of two wounded Federal soldiers on crutches]
via Heritage Auctions

    tuesday-johnson:

    ca. 1861-65, [tintype portrait of two wounded Federal soldiers on crutches]

    via Heritage Auctions

    Tagged: tintype vintage portrait history civil war medical

    Posted on February 28, 2012 via Historical Indulgences with 34 notes

  • tuesday-johnson:

c. 1840-60, [portrait of Obed Hussey, inventor of the reaper]
via the New York Public Library, “The Pageant of America” Photograph Collection

    tuesday-johnson:

    c. 1840-60, [portrait of Obed Hussey, inventor of the reaper]

    via the New York Public Library, “The Pageant of America” Photograph Collection

    Tagged: daguerreotype vintage history portrait medical

    Posted on February 10, 2012 via Historical Indulgences with 64 notes

  • tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1870, [Tintype portrait of (Francis) Jefferson Coates, who lost both eyes at Gettysburg and was subsequently awarded the Medal of Honor and the rank of Brevet Captain] 
via the Wisconsin Historical Society, Small Formats Special Storage Lot

    tuesday-johnson:

    ca. 1870, [Tintype portrait of (Francis) Jefferson Coates, who lost both eyes at Gettysburg and was subsequently awarded the Medal of Honor and the rank of Brevet Captain]

    via the Wisconsin Historical Society, Small Formats Special Storage Lot

    Tagged: tintype civil war vintage medical history

    Posted on January 12, 2012 via Historical Indulgences with 348 notes

  • tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1847, [Reenactment of the First Public Demonstration of the Surgical Use of Ether], attributed to Southworth and Hawes
via Harvard University, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Department of Photographs

    tuesday-johnson:

    ca. 1847, [Reenactment of the First Public Demonstration of the Surgical Use of Ether], attributed to Southworth and Hawes

    via Harvard University, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Department of Photographs

    Tagged: daguerreotype history photography portrait vintage medical

    Posted on January 5, 2012 via Historical Indulgences with 127 notes

  • sievetronix:

    Mutter Museum Philadelphia PA

    Tagged: oddities Mutter Museum Philadelphia skulls medical oddities weird medical medical oddities

    Posted on January 3, 2012 via Pre-Apocalypse Mondo with 3,515 notes

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