From the Center for Digital Studies at Brown’s website:

The project, “Paris, Capital of the 19th century,” initiated by the French Studies and Comparative Literature Departments of Brown University, provides a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture.

It offers online access to pictorial works and texts selected from the collections of the Art Slide Library, the Rockefeller Library and the John Hay Library at Brown University.

The Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century project, based on the Walter Benjamin essay of the same title, is currently the single biggest online archive of material on Paris in the nineteenth century.

My role with the project was as a graduate curator for the collection: identify and label images to be scanned, write tags and commentaries on the images, and compose an essay about Paris and its relationship with the French provinces.

This notice, taken from one of Charcot’s medical books, is one of the images I worked on in the Winter of 2013, and shows the breadth of the collection. The notice identifies the book the image is culled from, the artists when available, the subject-matter, the format of the image, and gives any context available to the reader. The Digital Studies browser allows users to explore content and zoom in on any parts of the image, as well as link to content for classes. In particular, this image represents a hand with rheumatism, drawn by Pr. Richer, one of Charcot’s pupils in Paris.

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Medicine in Paris in the nineteenth century was an integral part of the city’s life, and visual material produced is an important part of Brown libraries’ collection, thanks to the donation of the Rhode Island Medical Society’s collections in the 1930s. The online collection contains 93 medical images.