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Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
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- Accession 20-084
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
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- Records / Box 2 / Airdate: January 21, 1956 - Guest: Dr. T. Campbell Thompson, surgeon and chief of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. 1/4" audiotape. This hospital is the oldest orthopedic hospital in the nation. It began as a brace shop, employing doctors who fitted Civil War victims with prostheses. The first surgeons were trained as barbers. Surgery has always advanced during wartime. First amputee clinic began at HSS after World War II. Now major causes of amputation are traffic accidents and problems that elderly people develop.
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2004 February 27
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0859
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Total Running Time: 28:20 In this portion of the interview, Phillips talks about his amputation surgery and a subsequent surgery (Ertl technique) 10 years later to correct the first amputation; being able to finally use his own foot designs because it no longer hurt his stump to do so; his experiences with the patent system and the toll litigation...
Chela [screenprint poster]
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Contreras, Jose Melendez
Marques, Rene
Puerto Rico. Division of Community Education. Department of Education
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1972
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1 Item (Ink on paper., 58.2 x 49 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0615
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This movie poster boldly depicts a women's body cropped from the waist down, on crutches, missing a leg. The symmetrical composition, large planes of color and drastic cropping emphasize the missing limb and add drama. The script, adapted by Emilio Diaz Valcarcel, is based on a short story by Rene Marques. (From exhibition text by Marvette Perez.)
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1888-1945
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- NMAH.AC.0707
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Series includes two scrapbooks. One scrapbook outlines the accident and amputation of Walter Jones Willard's leg, and the subsequent letters and cards of sympathy from friends of the Willard family. The other scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and photographs featuring inventions, ships, Broadway show programs and ticket stubs, and articles o...
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Boyd, Walter Willard, Dr.
Boyd, John C.
Carpenter, Josephine
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1874-1945
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6 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
2 Motion picture films
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0707
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers related to Dr. John C. Boyd's career as a U.S. Navy surgeon, including his commission, names recommended for awards, his casebook for 1874-1877, his correspondence, including two letterpress books, 1895-1902; photographs. Also photographs, especially those by his son, Dr. Walter Willard Boyd, of Dr. Harvey Cushing performing neurosurgical and other operations; two films (1931) of an operation; two scrapbooks, including one outlining an accident and eventual amputation of the leg of Walter Jones Willard (includes letters and sympathy cards).
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Film reels (4 hours 13 minutes, black-and-white silent; 8502 feet, 16mm)
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- HSFA.1987.04
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Human Studies Film Archives
Footage shot during an expedition sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and the Dutch Committee for Scientific Research. Purpose of the expedition was to conduct ethnological investigations among the remote peoples of central Dutch New Guinea (Irian Jaya). Expedition traveled from Surabaja (east Java) up the Mamberamo River to its confluence wit...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
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ANONYMOUS
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1 Photograph (8x10 in)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.176
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National Anthropological Archives
Pictured: left to right, Last Star, Blanket Woman, Runs Backward, Wolf Eagle, Kills at Night, White Horse Rider, Red Pearl 600:10: Last Star
