Copies of some of the series were bound in thirteen volumes. There is an item-level database as well as an original card file index to the collection. Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted. The numbering system, which was used in the 1867 Museum Catalogue , was later subsumed into the Pathological Series. Partial finding aid, part arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
Images show cancer, blood, insects, plants, and fungi.
Other photographs in this series are pictures of the Museum and Washington area notables, probably taken by William Bell. Included are Civil War generals Ulysses S. Grant, Daniel Sickles, Philip Sheridan, Joseph Barnes. Original index card finding aids for the portraits exist. Some negatives for the Surgical Photographs are included in the collection. Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.