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Maker(s):Abbe, James
Culture:American (1883-1973)
Title:View of the mechanotherapy room at Vichy
Date Made:ca. 1902
Type:Photograph
Materials:ferrotyped and toned gelatin silver print
Place Made:France; Auvergne: Vichy
Measurements:Sheet: 7 5/8 in x 9 3/4 in; 19.4 cm x 24.8 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signature on verso lower right stamped: PHOTO: ABBE / 34, Rue Armangaud - SAINT-CLOUD / REPRODUCTION INTERDITE, inscription on verso left in pencil: 1a / Vichy / 74/40, inscription/description on verso lower right stamped on 18.19.20 et. al [scratched out] - Vues de la grande salle de mecanotherapie de l'Etablis- / ssment de Vichy. L'appareile que nous voyons au premier plan, ayant / quelque analogie avec un ancient chevalet de torture, est specialement / destine au traitment des deviations to la solonne vertebrale. / Les autres appareils peuvent se diverser en deux parties : ceux / qui oblige le patient a faire des exercies involontaires et ceau / qui demandent, au contraire, des movements actifs de la part de / le personne qui s'en sert, qu'il s'agisse de sogner une partie quel- / conque du corps: bras, jambes, tete, etc. . . . . . / Photos Abbe
Accession Number:  SC 2020.13.10
Credit Line:Gift of Robert Flynn Johnson in memory of Minna Flynn Johnson, class of 1936
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
salon of theraputic exercises, patient in left lower corner has black stockings and sleeves

Tags:
figures; medicine; machines

Subjects:
figures (representations)

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