Portrait of Stecher, wearing a pinstripe suit. Presentation inscription: "To my old friend Henry Schuman with kindest regards Robert W. Stecher November 8 1957." Photographed by W. P. Bruning.
Photograph of Florence Nightingale. Manuscript note underneath: "About aet. 30, i. e., see Cook's Life vol. I p. 394." From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, M.D., No. 23.
Number of physicians gathered around a table in an elegant drawing room. One is speaking with great fervor, others are listening, sleeping, talking to another, or daydreaming. By Geyer, engraved by Payne.
Photograph of Thomas R. Boggs, Chief of Medicine at Baltimore City Hospitals. Note on verso indicates that Dr. Boggs was one of Osler’s staff at Johns Hopkins. Presentation inscription: “To my young colleague, Wiley D. Forbus, with sincere...
Portrait of Ure looking straight ahead with his body turned slightly to the right. Engraved by R. Roffe from an original painting by Daniel McNee, for the Mechanics Magazine vol. XXVII. Published Dec. 1st 1837 by W. A. Robertson, Peterborough...
Portrait of Benjamin Rush sitting at a desk. Engraved by R. W. Dodson from a painting by T. Sully in possession of Richard Bush Esqr. Facsimile signature.
Leake writing with a pencil, looking at his writing rather than at the camera. Presentation inscription: "For Henry Schuman, God bless him, the most erudite, generous and genial of all book and cheese lovers! Ides of March-for which no fear! 1943...
Portrait of Albert John Ochsner wearing glasses, in three-quarters right profile. Photographed by Adolf Eckstein. Facsimile signature.
Publisher: Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Portrait of Paul Ehrlich in his laboratory. He appears to have been the first to appreciate the importance of megaloblastosis in primary anemias. Painted by Homer Hill.
Picture of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Included in foreground are a book, a cup and a pair of scissors. The border includes columns with ivy, butterflies, and flowers. Text in Latin.
Portrait of William Osler from the lithograph by George Black. Osler is seated in a chair with his right elbow on a table. Signature: “Sincerely yours Wm Osler.”
Hand colored diagram of the arterial system in a Persian treatise on anatomy by Mansur ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad. This is a seventeenth century copy of a late fourteenth century manuscript.
Oil portrait of Valentine Mott, M.D. who was a pioneer vascular surgeon famous for ligation of great vessels for aneurysm. He was considered the leading American surgeon of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Picture of William Pepper, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1880 to 1894. He is shown standing near a curtain holding some reading material.
Picture of William S. Thayer. He is sitting in a chair with his left arm resting against the back of the chair. Note on verso indicates he was a Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital about 1919-1923, and was a visiting professor at Duke...
Portrait of Richard Owen standing with a large bone in his left hand. Facsimile signature. At bottom "Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons of London."
Publisher: D. Bogue, Fleet Street.
Photograph of Wilhelm His. He is sitting with his right hand in his pocket and a watch chain is visible. Photographed by N. Perscheid. The number "4658" is shown at the bottom right hand corner of the sheet.
Publisher: Berlin: Photographische...
Postcard of a pharmacy, with medicine jars on shelves. On verso: "A Connecticut Pharmacy, mid-19th century, Yale Medical Library, Gift of Edward Clark Streeter, Reproduced for Associates of the Yale Medical Library." Printed by The Meriden Gravure...
Medallion by G. Prudhomme with left profile of Pasteur on one side and picture of a girl representing "Science" on the other. From the collection of John P. McGovern, M.D.
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States from page 17 of an anonymous album. The only non-physician included in this anonymous album.
Part of an album of 23 small formal photographs of physicians.
Portrait of Franz Joseph Gall, founder of the doctrine of the physiology of the brain. Painted by Rubidge and engraved by J. Alois. Facsimile signature.
Portrait of Florence Nightingale reading a book she is holding in her left hand. She is shown as she appeared at the time of the Crimean War. Engraved by G. E. Perine & Co., New York.
Portrait of William Harvey, M.D., seated and wearing a skull cap. Engraved by E. Scriven. From the original picture by C. Jansen in the possession of the Royal Society.