Found on Getty Images UK.  Captioned as “JUN 10 1965; Abe Polonsky, physical education director at the Jewish Community Center, takes a lung capacity test in the plethysmograph, or ‘body box.’ This gadget, in which subject sits, measures total volume of air in the lungs.”  Photo credited to Ed Maker.  This is the volume-displacement plethysmograph designed by Jere Mead and J H Emerson.

Found on the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine website.  The plethysmograph is the first volume-displacement type and was created by Jere Mead and JH Emerson.  View shows the integral Krogh spirometer attached to the front of the plethysmograph.  Individuals in photo were not identified.

Found on the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine website. Warren Anatomical Museum: 21595.  Experimental human body plethysmograph manufactured by JH Emerson Co.  Machine was used to measure lung capacity. A person would sit inside the box with his head in the glass dome on top and breathe into the tube on front of dome. Machine is wooden and “L” shaped, designed to fit around a seated human, and latches closed. A spirometer would have rested on wooden edge. Two thermometers affixed to front measured interior and exterior temperatures. Tubing, gauge, and motor are affixed to right side. Rear of machine has attached wires and area marked “Sears-port”.  83 D x 59 W x 152 H cm.