{"id":985,"date":"2013-12-21T18:24:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsciwp.case.edu\/dittrick\/?page_id=985"},"modified":"2019-01-16T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T14:36:25","slug":"the-corlett-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/online-exhibits\/smallpox\/the-corlett-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corlett Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. William T. Corlett was professor of dermatology and syphilology at Cleveland’s Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The Corlett photography collection comprises more than 500 glass negatives, depicting a wide range of dermatological diseases and conditions. There are approximately 90 images depicting smallpox victims. The collection features 12 hand colored photographs used as illustrations in Corlett’s book Treatise on the Acute Infections Exanthemata (1901)<\/em>.To present illustrations as realistically as possible, Corlett arranged for Felix Meheux, “dessinateur et photographe” of the h\u00f4pital Saint-Louis in Paris to prepare the color photographs. Here is a sampling of photographs from the Corlett Collection. You may see more of these photographs in the online exhibit: Photographing Dermatology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For an article on Corlett\u2019s clinical photography by Paula Summerly, Ph.D., \u201cPhotographing Dermatology: The collections of Dr. William Thomas Corlett (1854-1948),\u201d click here<\/a>.\u00a0 And on the collections of dermatological moulages and clinical photographs at the h\u00f4pital Saint-Louis, see Mary Hunter Ph.D., \u201c \u2018Effroyable r\u00e9alisme’: Wax, Femininity, and Realist Fantasies;” download the pdf here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t