Embalming surgeon at work

Title:: Embalming surgeon at work
Title (alt.):: Embalming surgeon at work on soldier's body
Description:: From "War Memories" catalog: This view shows Dr. Burr, the embalming surgeon, engaged in the process of embalming a dead soldier. The veins are pumped full of some liquid, which possesses the power to arrest and prevent decay. Thus it was made possible to send to friends in the North the bodies of many hundreds of soldiers, which, but for the science of embalming, could not have been permitted a grave in their native soil.
Date:: [ca. 1861–1865]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Albumen prints
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: American Civil War 20th Massachusetts Regiment
Series:: War Memories: The War for the Union, 1861-1865
Subjects:: Embalming
Dead persons
Physicians
Soldiers
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Extent:: 1 photograph : albumen print ; sheet 8 x 8 cm
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Notes:: Title from "War Memories" catalog.
Alternative title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
"War Memories" catalog number: 2531
Milhollen and Mugridge number: 866
Notes (date):: Date supplied by cataloger.
Notes (citation):: "War memories, the war for the Union 1861-1865 : catalogue of original photographic war views : photographic history of the war for the Union." Taylor & Huntington, 1890, Hartford, Conn.
Milhollen, Hirst D. and Mugridge, Donald H. "Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 : a catalog of copy negatives made from originals selected from the Mathew B. Brady Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress." Library of Congress, 1961, Washington.
Identifier:: 23_05_000330