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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: Warren E. Comstock of Kansas City, Missouri (Photography)
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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icianshave reproduced surgical methods, and the operation of thelungs in breathing. The photograph (Figure 3j of the Authorwas taken in 1912 and from it was made the last illustration(Figure 4)—a Medallion by Miss Lorena McWilliams, a pupilof Jorgen C. Dreyer, the sculptor, made in 1915. Medals or Medallions. These belong to two periods—ancient and modern—sep-arated by a wide interval. The early Greek and Romanmedals were the products of the mint of Ancient Rome, struckin the Provinces under the Empire. They were made of gold,silver, copper or brass. They were struck for prizes in athleticgames, or in commemoration of great events. They werein the form of a coin, stamped with a figure or device to pre-serve the portrait of some person, or the memory of someillustrious action. The gold medals began with Constantineand continued to the fall of the Empire; the copper, fromAugustus to Alexander Severus. A beautiful and famousgold Medallion exists of Augustus and one of Domitian. 186
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