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.2005.081701

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 8 / [line] / [hash symbol] 10; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / VERNONE MERRITT III / from BLACK STAR; adhered typed label: “Surgery here is quite different because a single case will usually / several different proceedures [sic] requiring major operations to more th / area of an injured body.” / The first year I was out here in Saigon, I did over 600 cases—I at / couting at 600.”

Tagasauris Keywords: 3 people; 3 people; Boy; Child and adult; Clinic; Day; Doctor; Face; Glasses; Health; Health care; Hospital; Indoors; Landscape; Male; No Photostyle; Patient; Person; Physician; Smile; Still Life; Waist-Up Portrait
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: VIETNAM / HOSPITALS
Retouching: N