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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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1938-1974
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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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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
- Dates:
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1878-1879
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0131
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A pharmaceutical perscription scrapbook from New York City, New York containing perscriptions from William B. Parkin and Company and other companies and inidividual physicians.
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Evans, John G., Dr. (physician; surgeon)
- Dates:
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1893 - 1893
1947 - 1949
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0024
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Dr. John G. Evans, a physician and surgeon practicing in New Hartford, Iowa in the 1940s.
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Maryland. Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State
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ca. 1740-1965.
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0.33 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0114
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
18th, 19th, and 20th century material deposited with the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, chiefly relating to the practice of medicine in the state. Includes correspondence, papers, certificates, diplomas, patents, maps, notebooks, clippings, prescriptions, pamphlets, photocopies of documents, scrapbooks, photographs, and p...
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Richards, Linda, 1841-1930 (nurse)
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1886-1890
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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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Dr. Edward H. Angle Orthodontics Papers
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Brodie, Allan, Dr.
Angle, Edward H. (Edward Hartley), 1855-1930
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1893-1940.
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3.16 Cubic feet (9 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0724
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Business and professional papers of Dr. Edward H. Angle, relating to his pioneering work in orthodontics. The papers include letters to and from Dr. Angle; photographs, subjects including Angle, his patients, equipment, skulls and jawbones and other demonstration photographs of orthodontic subjects, including some x-ray photographs (radiographs); n...
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Bratten, R. C., Dr. (dentist)
- Dates:
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1930-1967
- Size:
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1.66 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0022
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents dentist Dr. R. C. Bratten's 50-year dental practice in Galion, Ohio.
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Halkett, James A. E. (physicist)
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...
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Wolver, Anita Tuohy
Tuohy, Kevin M., 1921-1968 (optometrist, inventor)
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1897-1959
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1.2 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0317
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers of Kevin M. Tuohy (1921-1986) containing technical information on contact lenses designed to correct vision problems.
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Fournet, Fred G.
Hallmark.
Fournet Drugstore.
- Dates:
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1950-1977, undated
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet (7 boxes, 8 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0346
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists primarily of advertising and promotional materials for products sold by the Fournet Drugstore. In addition, there are photographs of the African American community in St. Martinville, Louisiana.
