Shipping and handling. To look at items spanning over 150 years of existence. Civil war collection. Some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Mr. Clarke hello, and welcome to the National Museum of health and medicine. My name is tim clarke and i am the museums deputy director. We are here to give you a short tour of the highlights of the museum. It was founded in 1862 as the Army Medical Museum. Our Mission Today is very much the same. It is to collect objects that shed light on the value of military medicine and preserve the legacy of american medicine. What we will show you today are highlights of the Museum Collections from the last 150 years in areas of military medicine, Human Anatomy and pathology, forensic identification, biomedical engineering, and a special few artifacts we have on display here. So, come along. We start our tour today with this object, the floor of what was known as trauma bay 2 from a hospital in iraq. From 2003 until 2007, during the height o
Are sitting on the desk. His wifes painting is a classic. Its Gilbert Stuart at his very best, i think. Lets walk along this wall. This was another stuart portrait painted while he was new york before he ever went to philadelphia to paint washington. This is henrietta. So many times these were done as a pair. Her husband was a newly appointed ambassador to the u. S. And they were newlyweds. This was painted right before they returned to england. An interesting thing about stuart as a painter is that he could be very slow. What henrietta wrote in her diary the thing about stuart, hes remarkable for being dilatory. Its amazing that paint draws so slowly in this country. Many people noted that. Stuart sometimes came through very quickly, but other times he just didnt even finish a work. He was very mercurial. This is such a beautifully done portrait with the color harmonies that stuart used for her. The beautiful linings and the peach and the way her bonnet is lined and the bow and the bo
Hello. I am the deputy director. We are here to give you the highlights of the museum. The museum was founded in as the 1862 Army Medical Museum. Our Mission Today is very much the same. It is to collect objects that preserve the legacy of american medicine. What we will show you today are highlights of the Museum Collections from the last 150 years in areas of military medicine, Human Anatomy and pathology, forensic identification, bioengineering, and a special few artifacts we have on display here. So, come along. We have moved into an exhibit on military medicine. But we start our tour today with this object, the floor of what was known as trauma bay 2 from the Theater Hospital in iraq. From 2003 until 2007, during the height of the iraq war, the Theater Hospital served as the evacuation point where american soldiers were treated before being flown to germany and the United States for the next level of care. Trauma bay two was where the worst wounded were treated. This piece of floo
He made 12 or 13 copies and then he got tired of doing that. And we have a van portrait not on view. We have one downstairs, which is another replica of that. For a while the gallery thought our van portrait might have been the original that stuart painted, but it is probably a very early copy because stuart wrote that he had rubbed that one out. In the midst of making replicas of the van portrait, he got another commission from Martha Washington for the portrait, x became the one that was used on the dollar bill and is the one that is modelled after. This one was a replica of the ahea athenium. This is the portrait of washington by stuart for that commission. Theyre not all exactly the same depending on stuart felt when he was doing the replica. Stuart said that washington was difficult to paint because he was so taciturn. Washington was not one to suffer that glib kind of conversation that stuart liked to partake in, so it was difficult to get washington. They said washington, when h
Proficiency. It was john jay. Gilbert stuarts purpose of coming to america was to paint washington and it was john jay who gave him his letter of introduction to washington whena he eventually went to philadelphia to paint washington, so it was john jay who really made that possible for him. Before going to washington, lets go into the next gallery. A before painting washington, as r said, stuart spent a year and a half in new york and painted many portraits while he was there. York and were lucky enough to have, oh, probably eight of them. He painted a whole series of a portraits for the yates pollock family. Two of them are hanging right here. Yates this is catherine brass yates. Y mrs. Richard yates. Stuart at his most amazing. Catherine yates was married to Richard Yates who hangs on the other side of the doorway over there. He had an importing company, soh they were import exporters of c, goods. They took to the west indies t cloth and flour and things like that. They transported