Photographs
1840-1987, undated
The Country Doctor Museum Manuscript Collection, CD 01.73- Creator(s)
- Country Doctor Museum (Bailey, Nash County, N.C.)
- Physical description
- 0.305 Cubic Feet
- Preferred Citation
- Photographs (CD 01.73), The Country Doctor Museum, at The William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
- Repository
- Laupus Library History Collections
- Access
- CD 01.73.00.07, CD 01.73.00.08, and CD 01.73.00.11 are restricted until 2053. Falls under HIPPA.
Various photographs of hospitals, patients, and advertisements. Many are unidentified.
Scope and arrangement
Various photographs, many of unknown origins, most unidentified. Most of the photographs were found loose in the collections of the Country Doctor Museum and no provenance or identification has been found yet. The postmortem photographs were purchased by the museum in 2019. Two are daguerreotypes and the rest were printed as carte de vistes, a popular printing style in the late nineteenth century.
Administrative information
Custodial History
Donor information unknown. 1971: N. B. Herring donated by T. T. Herring. 2019: Postmortem photographs. Purchased by The Country Doctor Museum.
Source of acquisition
Donor information unknown Gift of T. T. Herring. Purchased by The Country Doctor Museum.
Processing information
Processed by Ashley Williams and Marlena Barber, 2015. Updated by Layne Carpenter, 2017, 2019, and 2023.
Copyright notice
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
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Language of material
English