M0011847: Photograph of a mounted cast of a tumour affecting two caudal vertebrae of a dinosaur (Apatosaurus louisae Holland)

Date:: 1951

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/105/49

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    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0011799-M0011901WT/D/1/20/1/105
        M0011847: Photograph of a mounted cast of a tumour affecting two caudal vertebrae of a dinosaur (Apatosaurus louisae Holland)WT/D/1/20/1/105/49

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M0011847: Photograph of a mounted cast of a tumour affecting two caudal vertebrae of a dinosaur (Apatosaurus louisae Holland). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2022: Tumor affecting two caudal vertebrae of a Dinisaur Apatosaurus Louisae Holland

Description

Photograph of a mounted cast of a tumour (possibly a haemangioma/hemangioma) affecting two caudal vertebrae of a dinosaur (Apatosaurus louisae). The photograph is of the cast previously held by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, from the original specimen held by the University Museum, Kansas. The tumor was described in Moodie, Roy Lee (1880-1934): Paleopathology : an introduction to the study of ancient evidences of disease Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois press, 1923.

Publication/Creation

1951

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome holds the inventory card which provides an entry for the item (registration number R729/1939.

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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