Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
Medical Student's Photo Album, 1905.


Oblong folio-format photo album, 1905; twenty-five black pages with photographs affixed, depicting mostly family fun and outdoor activities; including five "playful" medical school images of male students posing with human cadaver subjects: one with five students holding a skeleton; two nearly identical photos depicting eighteen young men standing behind a cadaver lying in the prone position, one with all men hatless, in the second, about ten are wearing hats; in the final image of this nature, perhaps the most disturbing, six students in aprons hold semi-dissected remains upright, while two others pose in the background in open upright coffins; contemporary album in suede fringed cover, 11 x 7 3/4 in.