Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: MERRITT III, Vernon
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.081693

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscriptions]; verso, handwritten in pencil: DR. RICHARD PERRY, ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON / WITH PROJECT VIETNAM. Handwritten in pencil: 10-66-963; handwritten in pencil: SHEET 13 / [line] / 4A; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / VERNON MERRITT III / from BLACK STAR; adhered typed label: Perry speaks very little Vietnamese—a few words, but communicates well / with his surgical nurses who have learned most of the necessary terms--- / he fills in the communication gaps with hurried sigh language.

Tagasauris Keywords: Asian; Buzz cut; Child and adult; Day; Face; Glasses; Group; Group of people; Group of people; Health; Hospital; Indoors; Landscape; Male and Female; No Photostyle; Panoramic; Patient; Physician; Social issues; Three-Quarter-Length Portrait; Tongue; Vietnamese people; Waist-Up Portrait
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: VIETNAM / HOSPITALS
Retouching: N