Historical Library News
Apr 10, 2012
The Medical Historical Library recently acquired a collection of over 600 items dating from the late 18th and 19th centuries, including legal documents, correspondence, manuscripts, printed matter and photographs pertaining to the Coleman family of New Jersey. Of particular medical historical interest in this new collection are materials by two Coleman brothers, the Yale-educated physicians Dr. Isaac Pearson Coleman (1804-1869) and Dr. James Beakes Coleman (1805-1887). James and Isaac exchanged over fifty letters in which they share some of their experiences at the newly founded Medical... Read More
Feb 15, 2012
The Medical Historical Library recently acquired a collection of letters by John J. Cushing, one of the first homeopathic physicians in California. Cushing wrote in the 1850s to his family in Providence, Rhode Island from San Francisco, where he set up practice. The collection contains colorful anecdotes about Gold Rush era San Francisco, including some on his experiences as a doctor there. In his letters, Cushing tells how he got barred as a homeopath from the newly formed local Medical Society on account that “the board could not regard my diploma as evidence of my medical education.” The... Read More
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 AdministrationPurchased through the Lucia P. Fulton Fund 2010
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 Leo Burnett (creator of the Marlboro Man, 1954) AIDS CrisisWarning: While Bush spends billions... Read More