Dublin Photographic Studios and the Medical Press of the 1860s

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Dec 11, 2023 · 34m

Recorded November 30, 2023. A lecture by Dr Orla Fitzpatrick (Ireland's Border Culture Project, Trinity College Dublin) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. During the 1860s, photographic studios such as Allen of Westland Row, Foster of Westmoreland Street and Lawrence of Sackville Street provided the source imagery for articles in the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science. In an era before the advent of photo-mechanical reproduction, the images were published as woodcuts or lithographs or sometimes original prints were…