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Photographic War History. The War for the Union. 1861-1865. No. 2531. Embalming surgeon at work. This view shows Dr. Burr, the embalming surgeon, engaged in the process of embalming a dead soldier. The veins are pumped full of some liquid, which possesses the power to arrest and prevent decay. Thus it was made possible to send to friends in the North the bodies of many hundreds of soldiers, which, but for the science of embalming, could not have been permitted a grave in their native soil. [Taylor & Huntington stereo card]

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Anthony No. 2531.

Etched onto negative: 2531.