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Photograph (Gelatine Print) of Helen R. Purtle with a Culpeper-Type Microscope, c.1970

Inventory Number 12089


Item type
Object
Provenance
Royal Photographic Society archive.
Other inscriptions
Identifying inscription on printed envelope.
Physical material
Paper
Object type
Photograph
Dimensions
Height: 206mm Width: 254mm
Inventory No
12089

Description

Gelatine print. Contained in a medical photograph archive envelope dated 1958. Portrait of Helen R. Purtle, seated at a desk half length, in semi-profile to left, examining a Culpeper-type microscope. Horizontal format; approximately 8 by 10 inches. Purtle was editor of the catalogue The Billings Microscope Collection of the Medical Museum Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Washington DC; published 1974).