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.


Language of material

English

Container list
Box 1 Folder 1 Portraits of Unidentified Men, Girls, and Baby, 1902-1905, undated
Box 1 Folder 2 Houses, 1987
Box 1 Folder 3 Hospital Ward, undated
Box 1 Folder 4 Exterior Hospitals, 1926, undated
Box 1 Folder 5 Reproductions of Advertisements, undated
Box 1 Folder 6 Engraving of William T. Griggs, undated
CD01.73.00.07.01 Polio Patient at the Smithfield, NC Health Department, 1952-1953
CD01.73.00.07.02 Child with Polio Next to Wheelchair, undated
CD01.73.00.07.03 Child with Polio and Crutches, undated
CD01.73.00.07.04 Mother Helps a Child with Polio Stand Up, undated
Child with Cast CD01.73.00.07.05, undated
Box 1 Folder 8 Dermatalogic Cases from E. Runyon Tyler **CAUTION** Viewer discretion advised - nudity, undated
Box 1 Folder 9 Remnant of Members of the Board of North Carolina Medical Examiners, 1878-1884
Box 1 Folder 10 Marvin Lee Stone, undated
CD01.73.00.11.01 Polio Children in Monroe, NC Hospital, undated
CD01.73.00.11.02 Child with Polio in Monroe, NC, undated
CD01.73.00.11.03 Camp Sutton Monroe, NC, 1948
Box 1 Folder 12 Faculty of Leonard Medical School of Shaw University, undated
Box 1 Folder 13 Amos Neill Johnson, undated
Box 1 Folder 14 Mary Elizabeth Kornegay Hodge, undated
Box 1 Folder 15 N. B. Herring Portraits, undated
Box 1 Folder 16 T. G. Bradshaw Portrait, undated
Box 1 Folder 17 Grounds of Durant Hall, Elm City, N.C., undated
Oversize Folder 3 Classroom of Men, undated
Oversize Folder 3 Unknown Portraits, undated
Oversize Folder 3 Ten Men in Cap and Gown and a Table with a Skull, undated
Oversize Folder 3 Dissecting a Cadaver (Stamped on back: Anthony of Wilson, Parkwood Shopping Center, Wilson, N.C.), ca. 1880-1930
Oversize Folder 3 Goodwin Portrait, undated
Box 1 Folder 18 Wilson Sanatorium, est. 1896, undated
Box 1 Folder 19 Postmortem Photographs (Carte de Visite printing style), 1860-1910
Box 1 Folder 20 Postmortem Daguerreotypes, 1840-1900