Brandon Zimmerman

Brandon Zimmerman

Contributor

Brandon Zimmerman holds a Master’s Degree in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from The University of Rochester and George Eastman Museum. For over the past fifteen years he has worked as an exhibit developer, curator, researcher, and designer for numerous museums, libraries, archives, and private clients in The United States and Europe. He can be reached at brandozim@gmail.com.

Killing Clio

The Postmortem Life of Anton Probst: Philadelphia’s First Mass Murderer

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On the morning of June 7, 1866, Henry Leffmann, a first-year medical student at Jefferson Medical College, arrived at Philadelphia’s Myomensing Prison to set up a large quantity of galvanic batteries. Leffmann’s mentor, Dr. Benjamin Howard Rand, requested these “voltaic cells” to conduct “a most unusual experiment” upon the corpse of executed mass murderer, Anton… Read more →

History

When Legs and Arms Won: The Culture of Dissection and the Role of the Camera at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania

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In Fall 1906, three weeks into their freshman year, Elizabeth Cisney-Smith and her classmates were, as she wrote, “initiated” to the dissecting room of The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP), one of the nation’s first degree-granting medical schools for women.1 Per tradition, a crowd of upperclassmen assembled in the third floor hall, just outside… Read more →