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- Collection: Harvard Medical School. Department of Legal Medicine. Department of Legal Medicine Records, circa 1877-1967 (inclusive), 1909-1967 (bulk). M-DE06.
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Photographs of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, circa 1946.
Photographs of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death: Log Cabin, Dark Bathroom, Saloon and Jail, Three-room Dwelling--Kitchen, and Kitchen
Alan R. Moritz with Barn Nutshell Study of Unexplained Death, circa 1948.
Alan R. Moritz with Barn Nutshell Study of Unexplained Deatlh in the Department of Legal Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Photographs of Alan Richards Moritz with skeleton, circa 1946.
Photographs of Alan Richards Moritz with skeleton.
Photographs of Researchers in the Department of Legal Medicine, circa November 1941.
Photographs of Researchers in the Department of Legal Medicine
Photographs of Researchers in the Department of Legal Medicine, circa 1946.
Photographs of Researchers in the Department of Legal Medicine, circa 1946.
Photograph of Richard Ford, circa 1955.
Photograph of Richard Ford
Photograph of Alan Richards Moritz, circa April 1949.
Photograph of Alan Richards Moritz
Photograph of the aftermath of the Summer Street Bridge disaster, November 8, 1916.
On the evening of November 7, 1916, a streetcar plunged 20 feet off an open drawbridge into the Fort Point Channel, sinking some 30 feet below the surface. There were 47 fatalities and only a handful of survivors. George Burgess Magrath and Timothy…
Photograph of a preview of “Mystery Street,” September 1950
An MGM film originally intended as a documentary on the work of the Department of Legal Medicine was later recast as a fictional drama—Mystery Street (also known as Murder at Harvard.) The plot concerns a police detective (Ricardo Montalban)…
Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death: Notes and comments, circa 1946.
Description of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death: Case No. 4. Kitchen. Page 01-03.
Description of Kitchen model of Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.
Photograph of the Fourteenth Seminar in Homicide Investigation for State Police, November 17-22, 1952, Department of Legal Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Photograph of the Fourteenth Seminar in Homicide Investigation.
Letter : Littleton, N.H., to Alan R. Moritz, Boston, Mass.,
August 21, 1945 . Page 01-03.
This letter from Mrs. Lee to Alan Moritz is one of the few discussions of her work on the Nutshell Studies and documents the meticulous details involved in their creation.
I am glad you have found the study of these cases interesting. I found…
I am glad you have found the study of these cases interesting. I found…
Credo of the Department of Legal Medicine of Harvard University, circa 1960.
While unclear how or even whether this statement of beliefs was ever used, it provides an overview of the purpose and function of the Department of Legal Medicine.
Photograph of pocket watch with bullet hole, 1920.
George B. Magrath’s reputation involved him in some of the most celebrated and notorious criminal trials of the early 20th century, and he performed an examination on Alessandro Berardelli, the guard at the Slater & Morrill Shoe Factory who, along…
Letter : Charlestown, Mass., to George B. Magrath,
Boston, Mass., August 18, 1927.
George B. Magrath’s reputation involved him in some of the most celebrated and notorious criminal trials of the early 20th century, and he performed an examination on Alessandro Berardelli, the guard at the Slater & Morrill Shoe Factory who, along…