Portrait of Florence Nightingale about 1850. She is standing with her arms resting on a column. Her tame owl Athena is also shown on top of the column. From the drawing done by her sister Parthenope and engraved by F. Holl. From the collection of...
Portrait of William Curtis, F.L.S., author of The Flora Londinensis, with of view of the Frontispiece to Mr. Curtis' Flora Londinensis below. Engraved by Evans.
London: Published by Dr. Thornton. Part of a group of 16 portraits of noted botanists.
Cartes de visite photograph of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch from page 19 of an anonymous album. Bowditch was a physician specializing in diseases of the chest. He was interested in public health and also influenced the army to improve its ambulance corps....
Mrs. Semans and Thomas M. Simkins, Curator of rare books at Perkins Library, in the library of her home before the Trent Collection was moved to the Duke University Hospital Library. The case with the ivory manikins is in the foreground and the bronze...
Mrs. Semans and Thomas M. Simkins, curator of rare books at Perkins Library, in the library of her home before the Trent Collection was moved to the Duke University Hospital Library. The case with the ivory manikins is in the foreground and the bronze...
Cartes de visite photograph of Henry Jacob Bigelow from page 24 of an anonymous album. Bigelow was a major innovator in orthopedic surgery. He was present at Morton's public ether demonstration and was a bitter opponent of the admissions of blacks and...