Manuscripts

Photographs of X-rays

Description: X-rays of a hand. Also includes a mounted photo of R. W. Wood, photo of an X-ray illusion upon the state - conversion of a living man into a skeleton.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1930
Call number: mssGRP
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; RESTRICTED. Boxes 3 and 5, fragile, available with curatorial approval only.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Photographs, negatives, X-rays, and X-ray tube

Manuscripts

Includes X-ray and photographs of X-rays of various objects, animals, and human hands, photographs, some of Röentgen, his family, house, and laboratory, various photographic negatives, and Röentgen's X-ray tube. Box 3 contains a copy of Michael I. Pupin's X-ray photo of a hand of a gunshot victim, Columbia University, 1896.

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Photographs of X-rays

Manuscripts

X-rays of coins, pens, fish, hands, newborn rabbit, foot and shoe, and syringe devices. Also includes a photograph of R. W. Wood and an ad for "A lecture on the marvelous x-rays: Prof. Dayton Miller."

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Photographic prints of X-rays

Manuscripts

The collection consists of articles, correspondence, chiefly written by or to Otto Glasser, photographs, pamphlets, X-rays, and, an X-ray tube used by Röentgen. There are several copies of the X-ray Röentgen took of his wife, Anna Bertha's hand on December 22, 1895, and an X-ray of the hand of a gunshot victim, taken by Michael I. Pupin in February 1896. Correspondents include Thomas Edison, Bern Dibner, Wilhelm Conrad Röentgen, Arthur R. Von Hippel, and numerous other scientists and physicists. There are several articles written by, as well as X-rays done by, Wolfram Conrad Fuchs, a German electrical engineer who became a pioneer in radiography.

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Photographic prints of X-rays

Manuscripts

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Manuscripts

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Photographs of manuscripts and X-ray of a hand

Manuscripts

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Photographs of X-rays

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