Picture of a heart in which various objects are shown: an open book with a skull on it; a hand touching the skull with a snake coiled around it; a goblet; some greenery, and a guitar. Drawn by N. D. Text in Latin.
Picture of a man lying down. A man is standing and offering medicine in a spoon. A skeleton is departing through an open door. A landscape is shown through an open window. Drawn by Sfalio Bela.
A man in armor holding a spear is shown standing in the foreground. A city on a mountain is shown in the background. Several candles are shown rising from the city producing a symbolic menorah. Text in German and Hebrew. Manuscript letter on verso in...
Picture of a shelf filled with books. Above the books is the outline of a building. A portrait of Everett Herrick is at the center of the sheet. Drawn by George Wharton Edwards.
Picture of a stork nesting on top of a bell tower. Caption: "A mig aire del cel blau." Bookplate for Joaquin Cusi, farmaceutico. Extensive text on verso in Spanish.
Picture of people in a street with a man in the foreground selling newspapers, and a wine stand in the background. Text in Spanish. Bookplate for Dr. Castillo de Lucas.
Picture of a woman holding a bowl with vapors coming off it, leaning on a staff with a snake wrapped around it. Text in Hebrew. Bookplate for Dr. Emil Simonson.
Picture of a book and a quill pen surrounded by columns. The book is located in what appears to be the entrance to a building. Various symbols decorate the walls of the building.
Coat of arms with boars' heads in the upper left and lower right quadrants, and a boar's head and a caduceus above the coat of arms. At bottom "Thomas Brooke F.S.A. Armitage Bridge."
Bookplate showing Dr. Samuel X. Radbill attending a home childbirth. He faces forward holding the newborn infant while the mother lies in bed behind him
Picture of a book and a sheet of music with a skull and a theatrical mask on top, all resting on a box. On the box "Dr. med: J. Kluber." By Hans Probst.
Picture of a quill pen with a scroll wrapped around it with text "What do we know" on it, with books and a skull below, and snakes wrapped around the upper margin of the plate. For Charles W. Burr, M.D.
Portrait of a landscape with a bookshelf filled with books in the foreground. A tree is shown in the center. Human skull flanked by two more ancient skulls are also shown. Drawn by Lipsin.
Portrait of a man with a caduceus hitting a skeleton on the head with his fist. The skeleton has his hands around the woman's neck. Drawn by Estiarte. No. 141 appears beside the artist's name.
A man sowing as he walks across a sunny field followed by a skeleton reaping the grain that has sprung up behind him while dark clouds hover overhead. Text in Swedish.
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 after...
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...