Site Description:

The Bassett Collection contains some of the most meticulously detailed dissections ever done.  Practically every single nerve, vessel, muscle fiber, and tendon has been exposed to create the clearest images of each body system.

The collection is the product of a 17-year collaboration between David L. Bassett, a School of Medicine alumnus and faculty member known for his elegant dissections and love for the human body, and William Gruber, the photographer who invented the View-Master stereoscopic viewing device.

This partnership between the two resulted in the production of the Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy, which began in 1948, but was not not completed until 1962. It consisted of 221 View-Master reels with 1,554 color stereo views of dissections of every body region. Each stereo view was accompanied by a black-and-white, labeled drawing and explanatory text.

Author

Stanford School of Medicine

Contact Drew Bourn at dbourn@stanford.edu for permission regarding the use of Bassett Collection images

Features

• Each image is accompanied by a clearly labeled representational illustration
• Images are  large and well-suited for printing
• Extremely comprehensive

Limitations

• Only illustrations are labeled.  Could help if the actual photos were labeled as well.

Submitted by Jill Gregory

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