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Hirschkovitz, Jacob
Blinder, Joseph, 1884-1973
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Circa 1908-circa 1911
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0831
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Dr. Joseph Blinder was born in Russia in 1884 and immigrated to the United States in 1908. He attended Bellevue Medical College (New York University) and graduated in 1911. The collection consists of Blinder's bound medical notebooks, class notes, lab notes, and miscellaneous papers during his medical education at Bellevue from 1908-1911. The notebooks cover the following topics: pharmacology, anatomy, obstetrics, physiology, chemistry, and pathology. There are some loose handouts in the notebooks from professors Dr. Brooks and Dr. Smith.
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Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Division of Medical Sciences, NMAH
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circa 1930s-1960s
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36 Cubic feet (81 Films, 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0222
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Films vary in subject, production source, and intended audience. Includes both silent and sound black-and-white, and color films with sound.
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Still, George A., Dr.
Bean, Arthur Sanders
- Dates:
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1887-1941
- Size:
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2.3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0021
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes photographs, brief biographies and some correspondence of 105 prominent osteopaths, all submitted in 1918 apparently as the result of a circular written request by Dr. George A. Still, a trustee of the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri, and a great-nephew of the founder of that institution, Dr. A.T. Still. Oth...
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Johnson, Chad (co-founder)
Purdy, David (co-founder)
- Dates:
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1986 - 2012
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1266
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The World AIDS Institute (WAI) Collection contains correspondence and publicity material of the WAI as well as educational materials, pamphlets, publications, and ephemera collected by them, "to document and preserve the global history of AIDS."
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Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Winslow, Randolph, 1852-1937 (surgeon, medical school professor)
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1868-1924.
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2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0150
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Winslow Collection contains diaries, patient records, account books, collected historical materials, taped oral history interviews and miscellaneous papers. The core of the collection consists of a chronological series of small, handwritten leather bound books used for personal diaries, college and medical school notes, and patient records, ke...
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Robinson, Robert David, 1962-
Parker, Shirl A., 1951-2000
- Dates:
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1984-2000
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1204
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the childhood, medical history, treatment, and educational assessments of Shaun D. Parker, a Washington D.C. resident born in 1984 to single mother Shirl A. Parker.
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Dr. Joseph Underwood Hall, Jr. Papers
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Downs, Darian
Hall, Joseph Underwood Jr.
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undated
undated
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3 Cubic feet (12 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1317
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection primarily documents the personal life and medical career of Joseph Underwood Hall Jr. Hall was among the first to use the new X-ray technology and built his own X-ray machine.
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Lamp, Robert A.
Lamp, J. Curtis
- Dates:
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1942 - 1988
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1412
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document the life and career of surgeon J. Curtis Lamp, a plastic surgeon who specialized in reconstructive facial surgery for soldiers with traumatic combat injuries. The collection includes case studies, statistics, photographs of patients (some are close-ups of their injuries), journal articles by Dr. Lamp and by others, letters betwe...
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Richards, Linda, 1841-1930 (nurse)
Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1886-1890
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0221
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Linda Richards was the first woman nurse trained in the United States at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. When these letters were written, she was a missionary nurse and the head of the first training school for nurses in Japan.
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Halkett, James A. E. (physicist)
Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Wesolowski, Sigmund A.
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1948-1951.
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0220
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Halkett and Wesolow(ski) materials show the process of technological innovation through laboratory protocols. They also demonstrate the various alternatives explored in the search for effective artificial circulation by using materials which would not damage or clot blood and that could be sterilized. The evolution of the pumping mechanism and powe...