The eminent surgeon Sir William Macewen (1848-1924), kept a series of Private Journals (PJs) of cases he encountered on the surgical wards of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI). From 1881 photographs featured in the PJs, soon afterwards Macewen began to duplicate images and mount them on boards, which formed the basis of his teaching collection. When he moved to the University of Glasgow and the Western Infirmary, Glasgow (WI) in 1892 Macewen continued to expand his collection of clinical photographs.

This article outlines the photographic sources held in the historical case file generated by the University of Glasgow's Department of Forensic Medicine and Science and by two of its former Regius Professors, John Glaister Senior (1856-1932) and John Glaister Juniour (1892-1971). The contexts in which photographs were taken circulated and used, from scenes of crime, to the laboratory and the courtroom will be explored in relation to some of the Glaisters' individual cases to some of Scotland's most notorious crimes.

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After graduating in medicine from the Edinburgh Extramural School of Medicine, William Keiller trained in obstetrics and became anatomy lecturer at the Edinburgh College of Medicine for Women, where he successfully devised and developed an anatomical curriculum. In 1891, Keiller was appointed as the Professor of anatomy at the state medical department of the University of Texas, at the age of 30. He built up a nationally recognised anatomy department, museum and teaching curriculum informed by his experience in Edinburgh. Keiller left the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston a rich legacy, including anatomical specimens and drawings.