Memorabilia

A Guide-Book fo Boston for Physicians, 1906

The 1906 annual meeting of the American Medical Association was held in early June and provided an occasion for the first public opening of the Quad buildings. Dr. Walter L. Burrage, of the Sub-Committee on Printing and Programmes, edited this guide to the medical attractions and sites of the city for the attendees. The new buildings are described as "the beginning of a medical university, surpassing in equipment and beauty any in the world. It remains for the future to show what this is to mean to the cause of medical education."

Map of the Portion of Boston in the Vicinity of the Meeting Places of the A.M.A., 1906

Published in the May 5th issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, this map for attendees of the meeting graphically demonstrates the distance of the new Medical School campus from the center of Boston.

Commemorative badge from the 1906 meeting of the American Medical Association

Commemorative badges and lapel pins were commonly distributed to attendees of the AMA meetings from the 1880s. These items were worn by members at the 1906 meeting in Boston. The badge depicts the goddess Hygeia offering a drinking vessel with a serpent entwined around her arm.

Dr. James G. Mumford, circa 1900

Dr. James G. Mumford was chairman of the Press Committee and kept a scrapbook of newspaper articles and ephemera from the AMA meeting.