Opening day at the Duke University Medical Center Library. Warren Bird, director, stands at the far left. Dean of Nursing, Ruby Wilson, and Dr. Ewald Busse are at the right.
Portrait of Morgagni at age 36, in right profile, with a picture of him and a woman walking with a cherub below. Text in Latin. Drawn by R. Blokhuysen.
Cartes de visite photograph of Valentine Mott from page 2 of an anonymous album. Mott was the father of American vascular surgery.
Part of an album of 23 small formal photographs of physicians.
Publisher: New York: J. Gurney & Son,...
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.
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.
Interior views of the Duke University Medical Center library: Digital scanning workstation in the History of Medicine Reading Room. Gayle Elmore is at the keyboard.
Ribbon cutting ceremony for opening day at Duke University Medical Center Library. Front row (left to right), Dean of Nursing Ruby Wilson, Director of the Library Warren Bird, Mrs. Mary D. B. T. Semans, Dr. William G. Anlyan and Dr. James H....
Photograph of officers and nurses in full uniform at Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C. The nurses are seated in the first few rows and the officers are standing behind them. Photographed by A. F. Orr, Oldtown, Maine.
Portrait of Johannes Jacobus Scheuchzerus in a natural setting. Painted by Melchior Fussilinus Tigur and engraved by Jos. Nutting, London. Text in Latin.
Photograph from Evacuation Hospitals One showing the tail portion of a military plane with a medical cross painted on it. From the archives of Charles Reed.
Portrait of a younger William Harvey with shoulder-length hair. From a private plate by Mac Ardell.
Publisher: New York: Published by Ernest R. Gee, 35 East 49th Street.
Portrait of Sydenham, wearing a lace collar. Engraved by E. Scriven. At bottom "From a picture in the hall of All Souls College, Oxford. Under the superintendence of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge. London, published by Charles...
Cartes de visite photograph of Edward Hammond Clarke from page 16 of an anonymous album. Clarke claimed that the health of adolescent women could be endangered by academic work and thus argued against co-education and the admission of women to...
Cartes de visite photograph of John Barnard Swett Jackson from page 21 of an anonymous album. Jackson was curator of Warren Anatomical Museum at Harvard and curator of the Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. Photographed by J. W....
History of Medicine reading room looking toward entrance. Photographed by Walter E. Shackelford.
Durham, NC: Walter E. Shackelford, Custom Photography.
Picture of a bearded man in a room sitting by a bed in which a woman is lying. There is an open window showing a landscape view. On the left side are bookshelves filled with books. Books, an hourglass, and various other objects are on the table....