Context: The photo was part of a set of late 19th century magic lantern (slide projector) images depicting staged scenes from ...

The photo was part of a set of late 19th century magic lantern (slide projector ... taken in the 1870s — when its creator, the British photographer Alfred Pumphrey, began using photographs ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...