Exhibitions at the Medical Library
Apr 19, 2013
The Medical Historical Library’s digital collection includes School of Medicine photographs, portraits of 16th Century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, Harvey Cushing, and others, medical and surgical instruments, prints, posters, and drawings, and much more! Recently, thousands of medical works from the 19th and early 20th centuries have been added to the Medical Heritage Library, an online resource of free and open historical resources in medicine. This exhibit, on view in the Medical Library... Read More
Mar 14, 2013
Howard Scott U.S.A. 1902-1983
We Still Have a Big Job to Do! 1943
U.S. Government Printing Office for the U.S. Navy, Industrial Incentive Division
Purchased through the John F. Fulton Fund 2012
During World War II, the Industrial Incentive Division of the U.S. Navy sought to improve morale among workers in U.S. industrial plants by emphasizing the importance of the plant’s products in the overall war effort. The morale initiative, begun in May of 1943, employed audio interviews and other... Read More
Jan 28, 2013
On view in the Library Corridor
War
Selections from the Collection of Prints and Drawings and the Historical Medical Poster Collection
Eyewitness renderings of medicine in the field during World War I and World War II, together with posters from various wartime agencies, show part of the war experience and its effect on individuals.
Jan 27, 2013
Robert A. Butcher, Co. H, 82nd Infantry, Pennsylvania
Robert A. Butcher was 21 when he enlisted in H Company 82nd Infantry Pennsylvania. Before the war, he was living with his mother, father, brother and sister in Philadelphia. His head was struck by a sabre on April 6th 1865 at Burkes’ Station, Virginia and he suffered two major cuts across the top of his head. He was admitted to Harewood Hospital on April 16th and, although the wounds healed rapidly, he began complaining of severe headache... Read More
Jan 7, 2013
Portraits of Wounded Bodies: Photographs of Civil War Soldiers from Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1863-1866
January 16th-April 1st, 2013
Tours open to all on Wed. Jan. 23rd, 4 p.m., and Friday Jan. 25th at noon!
One hundred and fifty years ago, the Civil War raged throughout the United States, creating thousands of casualties. On view now, the Medical Historical Library explores Civil War medicine through the haunting photographs of wounded soldiers. Curated by Heidi Knoblauch, a... Read More
Oct 9, 2012
Medicine at Work: A Selection of Instruments and Materials from the Medical Historical Library
September 22nd, 2012-January 13th,2013
Medicine at Work, on view beginning September 22nd in the Rotunda of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and foyer of Sterling Hall, exhibits instruments, prints, catalogs, fee bills, and books describing and depicting a variety of medical work. Surgical operations and tools, trepanation, electrotherapy, anesthesia, bandaging, and dissection and toxicology are a... Read More
Jul 5, 2012
On view June 22through September 17 in the Medical Library Foyer.
Avoid Fatigue: Eat a Lunch that Packs a Punch! 1943
Published by the War Food Administration
United States Department of Agriculture
Gift of George M. Smith 1943
During World War II, responsible food habits were promoted as a contribution to the war effort by the U.S. government.
The Eat to Beat the Devil series published in 1942 by Servel, Inc., makers of the gas refrigerator, fostered the idea of “eating for victory”... Read More
Jul 2, 2012
"Family Doctor" by Grant Wood and Works by Other Mid 20th Century American Artists
on view June 22-September 17 in the library hallwayGrant Wood's iconic lithograph "Family Doctor," for which he used his personal physician as a model, is currently on view with twelve other prints and drawings by American artists.
"Family Doctor" by Grant Wood, 1940Lithograph"Children's Ward" by Robert Riggs, c.1940Lithograph
Oct 10, 2011
On View in the Library Corridor through January 6
Selections from the Historical Collections
L.C. Clinker and M.J. Dwyer
Don’t Waste Food While Others Starve! c.1918Lithograph printed by Heywood Strasser and Voight Lithograph Company, New York, for the U.S. Food AdministrationPurchased through the Lucia P. Fulton Fund 2010
Harvey T. Dunn U.S.A. 1884-1952
Victory is a Question of Stamina, 1917Lithograph printed by Latham Lithograph and Printing Company, Brooklyn, New York for the U. S. Food... Read More
Oct 10, 2011
Anti-Drug and AIDS Awareness Posters from the 1980’s and 1990’s
On View in the Library Foyer through January 6
Selections from the Historical Collections
Andrej PagowskiPolish b. 1953
Narkotyki to gówno [Drugs are Shit] Published for Fundacja Wspierania Tworzcosci, Kultury i Sztuke ARS [Foundation for Supportof Culture, Art, and Creativity] Purchased through the Madeline E. Stanton Fund 2008
GANG (a New York art collective)
after... Read More