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Autograph letter signed : Baton Rouge, La., to [John Rogers, Roxbury, Mass.,?].
Alfred R. Glover's body was brought back to Massachusetts and buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. His wife, Mary Louisa Bodge Glover, died on September 10, 1864, of phthisis, though according to Henry A. Willis, historian of the 53rd Regiment, she, it…
Autograph letter signed : Boston, Mass., to Winslow Lewis,
[Boston, Mass.?], December 5, 1849. Page 01-03.
Following the discovery of charred human bones and some artificial teeth in the laboratory of John White Webster, Harvard's Erving Professor of Chemistry, scientific experts were called in to provide anatomical and chemical analyses of the remains on…
Autograph letter signed : Ely's Ford, Va., to [Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch, Boston, Mass.].
Bowditch writes:
I write this to send by a waggon train that is going to Rappahannock Station tomorrow morning. They might just as well send us too if there was any one to take the responsibility of it but the comfort of 100 or so wounded men is…
I write this to send by a waggon train that is going to Rappahannock Station tomorrow morning. They might just as well send us too if there was any one to take the responsibility of it but the comfort of 100 or so wounded men is…
Autograph letter signed : Lynchburg, Va., to James T. Fields
A graduate of Harvard Medical School in 1853, Zabdiel Boylston Adams enlisted in 1861, joining the 7th Massachusetts Volunteers as an assistant surgeon. He was later a captain with the 56th Massachusetts Volunteers. Adams was wounded at Orange…
Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to [Abby Ann Newbold Cox, New York, N.Y.?]
Former professor of surgery at the New-York Medical College, Abraham L. Cox resigned his New York practice at the opening of the war and became the Surgeon-in-Chief, 1st Division, 20th Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland. "Hastened by the labor and…
Autograph letter signed : Whitehouse Landing, Va.,
to Fanny [Ware].
An 1856 graduate of Harvard Medical School and son of faculty member, John Ware (1795-1864), Robert Ware was an inspector with the United States Sanitary Commission and later a surgeon with the 44th Massachusetts Volunteers. Nearly fifty letters…
Autopsy of Dr. John Collins Warren (1778-1856)
John Barnard Swett Jackson was Harvard Medical School's first professor of pathological anatomy and first curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum. He published catalogues of the specimens in the museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement…
Baby Helene Kazanjian
From box labeled "Souki." Pictures of Dr. Kazanjian and family.
Baby Helene Kazanjian
From box labeled "Souki." Pictures of Dr. Kazanjian and family.
Baby Helene Kazanjian
From box labeled "Souki." Pictures of Dr. Kazanjian and family.
Baby Helene Kazanjian
From box labeled "Souki." Pictures of Dr. Kazanjian and family.
Baby Helene Kazanjian
From box labeled "Souki." Pictures of Dr. Kazanjian and family.
Baby Helene Kazanjian
From box labeled "Souki." Pictures of Dr. Kazanjian and family.
Baby Helene Kazanjian
From box labeled "Family" containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family, as well as miscellaneous pictures from France during World War I.
Baby Helene Kazanjian
From box labeled "Family. Helene as Baby" mostly containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family.
Baby Helene Kazanjian being held by family
From box labeled "Family. Helene as Baby" mostly containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family.
Baby Helene Kazanjian being held by family
From box labeled "Family. Helene as Baby" mostly containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family.
Baby Helene Kazanjian being held by family
From box labeled "Family. Helene as Baby" mostly containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family.
Baby Helene Kazanjian being held by family
From box labeled "Family. Helene as Baby" mostly containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family.
Baby Helene Kazanjian being held by family
From box labeled "Family. Helene as Baby" mostly containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family.
Baby Helene Kazanjian with family
From box labeled "Family. Helene as Baby" mostly containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family.
Baby Helene outside
From box labeled "Souki." Pictures of Dr. Kazanjian and family.
Baby Helene outside
From box labeled "Souki." Pictures of Dr. Kazanjian and family.
Baby Helene outside
From box labeled "Souki." Pictures of Dr. Kazanjian and family.
Baby Helene outside
From box labeled "Souki." Pictures of Dr. Kazanjian and family.
Baby Helene outside
From box labeled "Camier pictures. Helene as Baby." containing stereoscopic photographs of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter, Helene, and family, as well as miscellaneous pictures of the return trip from Europe after the war and family vacations.
Baby Helene outside
From box labeled "Family" containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family, as well as miscellaneous pictures from France during World War I.
Baby Helene with family
From box labeled "Family" containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family, as well as miscellaneous pictures from France during World War I.
Baby portrait
From unlabeled box containing negatives of France, Algeria, portraits, and Kazanjian's facial moulages on display in what is possibly the Harvard Dental School museum.
Backlit portrait
From box labeled "Switzerland and Family" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Ball reamer
Metal reamer with a ridged circular base. There is a round metal label with "Ball Reamer" handwritten in black ink.
Ballot to dissolve the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society
On April 15, 1964, at the 124th annual meeting, the members of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society voted 10-5 to dissolve their organization.
Balsam Styrax Benzoin
Latin Name: Balsam Styrax BenzoinCommon Name:Benzoin, or balsam of peru, the resin of the benjamin treeClassification: BlenhorrheticIsolated Drug/s: Benzoic acidMedicinal Usage:The resin of the tree is obtained from incisions in the bark, and then…
Barricade across a main road
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.
Barricade of empty artillery shells
From box labeled "V.H.K. Battlefields" showing images of battles, soldiers, and wreckage throughout France.
Bassin d'Apollon et Grand Canal
From box labeled "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Bassins - Grandes Eaux." Belongs in sequence with "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Les Bassins."…
Bassin d'Apollon et Tapis Vert
From box "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Les Bassins." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Glass plates are numbered, and numbers correspond to a…
Bassin d'Apollon et Tapis Vert
From box labeled "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Bassins - Grandes Eaux." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Box contains many duplicate plates from…
Bassin de Latone et la Tapis Vert
From box "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Les Bassins." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Glass plates are numbered, and numbers correspond to a…
Bassin de Latone et la Tapis Vert
From box labeled "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Bassins - Grandes Eaux." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Box contains many duplicate plates from…
Bassin de Neptune
From box "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Les Bassins." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Glass plates are numbered, and numbers correspond to a…
Bassin de Neptune
From box labeled "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Bassins - Grandes Eaux." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Box contains many duplicate plates from…
Bassin du Dragon
From box labeled "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Bassins - Grandes Eaux." Belongs in sequence with "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Les Bassins."…
Bassin du Dragon
From box labeled "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Bassins - Grandes Eaux." Belongs in sequence with "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Les Bassins."…
Bassin du Dragon et Allee des Marmousets
From box "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Les Bassins." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Glass plates are numbered, and numbers correspond to a…
Bassin du Dragon et Allee des Marmousets
From box "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Les Bassins." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Glass plates are numbered, and numbers correspond to a…
Bassin et Allee de l'Automne
From box "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Les Bassins." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Glass plates are numbered, and numbers correspond to a…
Bassin et Allee de l'Automne
From box labeled "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Bassins - Grandes Eaux." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Box contains many duplicate plates from…
Bassin et Allee de l'Ete
From box "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Les Bassins." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Glass plates are numbered, and numbers correspond to a…
Bassin et Allee de l'Ete
From box labeled "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Bassins - Grandes Eaux." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Box contains many duplicate plates from…
Bassin et Allee de l'Hiver
From box "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Les Bassins." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Glass plates are numbered, and numbers correspond to a…
Bassin et Allee de l'Hiver
From box labeled "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Bassins - Grandes Eaux." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Box contains many duplicate plates from…
Bassin et Allee du Printemps
From box "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Les Bassins." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Glass plates are numbered, and numbers correspond to a…
Bassin et Allee du Printemps
From box labeled "Photographies stereoscopieques sur verre en tons chauds. Chateau de Versailles. Bassins - Grandes Eaux." Purchased positive stereoscopic photographs of the pools and fountains at Versailles. Box contains many duplicate plates from…
Battlefield after the retreat
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.
Battlefield at Perthes
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.
Battlefield before the St. Michele fort
From box labeled "V.H.K. Battlefields" showing images of battles, soldiers, and wreckage throughout France.
Baxter-Bard InfusOR Syringe Pump
Brigham and Women’s Hospital anesthesiologist and bioengineer, James Philip, ME, MD, and Daniel Raemer Ph.D., developed the first bolus plus infusion pump for intravenous drug administration with the Baxter-Bard InfusOR Syringe Pump. This device…
Becton Dickinson Catalog, pages 30–31
A 1927 Becton Dickinson Catalog, pages 30 and 31, with images and a list of needles for sale.
Beds outside in courtyard
From a set of two boxes of lantern slides by Dr. Robert Battey Greenough, covering his service in 1915 with the First Harvard Unit and the American Ambulance in France during World War I.
Ben cao yuan shi
The本草原始 [Ben cao yuan shi] ("Origins of the materia medica") describes medicinal plants and herbal substances with their uses and manner of preparation. Like many Chinese medical texts, this early 17th century work was reprinted in Japan during the…
Benda, Clemens E. (Clemens Ernst), 1898-1975. Papers, 1895-1975 (inclusive): Finding Aid
The finding aid for the Clemens E. Benda papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…
Benda, Clemens E. (Clemens Ernst), 1898-1975. Papers, 1895-1975 (inclusive): Finding Aid.
The finding aid for the Clemens E. Benda papers underwent a significant revision in January 2022 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's updated Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…
Benjamin Waterhouse
This portrait of Waterhouse at the age of 79, attributed to American artist Rembrandt Peale, was on display at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876.
Beth Israel Invitation
A reception was held for Dr. Bibring’s retirement and was granted the title Psychiatrist-in-Chief <i>Emerita</i>.
Bicentennial Luncheon program and menu, in Honor of His Majesty, Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden
Program and menu for the Bicentennial Luncheon in Honor of His Majesty, Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, hosted by the Swedish-American Council and the Swedish Charitable Society. The luncheon was held at the Marriott Hotel in Newton, Massachuestts…
Bichromate de Potassium
Latin Name:Potassium Bichromate(this inscription is French)Common Name: Potassium bichromate, or red chromate of potashClassification: Caustic and alterativeIsolated Drug/s: NoneMedicinal Usage:An irritant caustic, poisonous in overdoses. In the…
Biddenden Maids Broadside
Thought to be one of the earliest cases of surviving conjoined twins, the Chulkhurst sisters, known as the Biddenden maids, reputedly lived until 1134, although there is considerable uncertainty about the accuracy or even reality of their story. As…
Biplane on display in courtyard
From a set of two boxes of lantern slides by Dr. Robert Battey Greenough, covering his service in 1915 with the First Harvard Unit and the American Ambulance in France during World War I.
Biplanes in a field
From a set of two boxes of lantern slides by Dr. Robert Battey Greenough, covering his service in 1915 with the First Harvard Unit and the American Ambulance in France during World War I.
Birthday letter from Sven Paulin to Herbert L. Abrams
Letter from Sven Paulin to Herbert L. Abrams, on the occasion of Abrams's 90th birthday. The letter discusses Abrams's birthday and the professional mentor-mentee relationship between Abrams and Paulin.
Bivouacked troops
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.
Blimp, as seen from the ground
From a set of two boxes of lantern slides by Dr. Robert Battey Greenough, covering his service in 1915 with the First Harvard Unit and the American Ambulance in France during World War I.
Blind man's appeal
"Blind man's appeal : who lost his sight by brain fever. Offers this composition for sale as a means of support. All favors thankfully received"First line: You see the glorious sun.