Photomicrograph of a Crab Louse
Artist
Joseph Javier Woodward
(American, 1833 - 1884)
Dateca. 1864-1865
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches (15.56 x 15.88 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.54
InscribedOn card mount inside double gilt line border. Printed and handwritten in lower center of mount: "WAR DEPARTMENT,/ Surgeon General's Office, Army Medical Museum./Crab Louse/ Magnified 80 (?) diameters by Beck's 43rd/ Photomicrograph Negative No. 519. Newsreies,/ By J.J. Woodward..."
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Cabinet of Curiosities: Photography & Specimens. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 12 , 2012- February 10, 2013, no cat.
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