Embalming surgeon at work - 19th century Virginia.

Photograph shows Dr. Richard Burr, an embalming surgeon in the Army of the James demonstrating the procedure on a dead soldier.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).

From series: The War for the Union; Photographic War History, 1861-1865.
See also record for original negative: LC-B811-2531.
See also record for variant image in stereo format, LOT 4180, no. 208.
Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection.
Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.