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.2005.081705

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] 37; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / VERNON MERRITT III / from BLACK STAR; adhered typed label: Perry working on a patient—he is performing a bone graft on a boy whose shoulder was [in blue ink] NOT / uniting properly. Graft was from the left ILIAC CREST to the LEFT HUMERUS.

Tagasauris Keywords: 4 people; 4 people; Barechestedness; Child and adult; Day; Glasses; Health; Hospital; Indoors; Male; No Photostyle; Operating table; Operation; Patient; Scrubs; Surgical mask; Waist-Up Portrait
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: VIETNAM / HOSPITALS
Retouching: N