Sale 2503 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 28, 2019

240 c   (EDUCATION.) A framed photograph of four African American medical students at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1890s. Albumen photograph, 5 3 / 4 x 7 3 / 4 inches to sight, with ink and pencil inscriptions on verso; minor dampstaining to mat. Not examined out of period mat. [Philadelphia, 1896] [600/900] A grisly but compelling portrait of four medical students dissecting a cadaver. Three of them hold scalpels, the other has a textbook propped open on the corpse’s torso, and their work is pretty far advanced. The two students at left are identified on verso as Samuel Patterson Stafford and Eugene Theodore Hinson. The other two, according to the caption, are either Francis Julius LeMoyne Johnson, Samuel Clifford Boston, or Loring B. Palmer; all 5 graduated between 1897 and 1899. This photograph was published in Golden and Rosenberg’s “Pictures of Health: A Photographic History of Health Care in Philadelphia, 1860- 1945,” page 12. Provenance: collection of Isadore Maximilian Martin. EDUCATION LOTS 240 - 252