Title: Back of a Drawing of William Osler, by Sarah Gooll Putnam, late 1870's or early 1880's
Date: between 1875-1884
Montreal Period (1870-1884)
Creator: Putnam, Sarah Gooll, 1851-1912
Physical Description: image.sketch.pencil drawing
22.5 x 17.3 cm including borders
17.1 x 12.4 cm excluding borders
Image Number: CUS_033-018_PB
Description: Back of a pencil sketch of William Osler by Sarah Gooll Putnam, cousin of Charles P. and James Jackson Putnam, friends of Osler.
Notes: By Sarah G. Putnam? Drawn on train on a trip from Montreal -- late seventies or early eighties probably. Putnams camp. 3 photos 1/2 net. size are in Osler photo box. 1946. last one sent to the Bowditchs, who gave this, 1955. By "Cousin Sally Putnam" (letter of Dr. Harold Bowditch, 1955, son of H.P.B. Loaned to Dr. Wm. N. Bradley Phila., ... photo'd. Dec 1945 ret'd with 3 photos Dec. 26th. Please return to OSLER LIBRARY, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL, Canada. Cushing material #8303 (before "1883" file). (transcribed from back of sketch)
Professor William Osler (transcribed from front of photo)
See Harvey Cushing, "The Life of Sir William Osler" (1925), vol. 1, p. 174.
See also Pipkin, Erin L., 'Striking in its promise': The Artistic Career of Sarah Gooll Putnam. The Massachusetts Historical Review 3 (2001): 34 pars. 23 May 2008 <http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/mhr/3/pipkin.html>
Subject Francis, William Willoughby, b. 1878 -- Inscriptions
Publisher: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University
is Part Of: Cushing Collection
Image Is Related To: Front


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