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Studies for the First Operation under Ether
10 pencil sketches of heads and torsos of physicians made at the time of painting The First Operation under Ether. Two individuals are unidentified.
Self-Portrait in the Form of a Silhouette.
1 framed silhouette of Horace Wells.
Photograph of Charles T. Jackson.
Photograph of Charles T. Jackson.
Photograph of W. T. G. Morton.
Photograph of W. T. G. Morton.
Responses to the Interrogatories of R. H. Dana
At the request of William T. G. Morton, “to be preserved in perpetual remembrance of the thing,” sixteen physicians--John Collins Warren and Henry Jacob Bigelow among them--with knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the ether discovery and its…
Description of the Gilbert Abbott Operation at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Description of the first public demonstration of a surgical operation employing sulphuric ether as an anesthetic, the Morton inhaler, and the imperfect. etherization.
Subscription list for the Morton Testimonial Association
Subscription list to raise funds for support of W. T. G. Morton and his family.
Testimonies of Medical Students at Harvard to Horace Wells' Demonstration
Testimonial letters of William M. Cornell and Mason M. Miles in defense of Horace Wells.
Horace Wells' Demonstration of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School
Describes Wells' unsuccessful attempt to demonstrate anesthesia using nitrous oxide at Harvard in December 1844.
A. L. Peirson letter to W. T. G. Morton, 1847
Copy of a letter addressed to Morton, describing Peirson's successful surgical amputations employing ether anesthesia.
Photograph of the Halifax Y.M.C.A. Emergency Hospital staff
Photograph of E. A. Codman and staff members of the Halifax Y.M.C.A. Emergency Hospital in Nova Scotia.
Sixteenth annual catalogue and report of the New-England Female Medical College.
A list of students in attendance at the New England Female Medical College during the 1863-64 term along with a list of the graduates of the Class of 1864.
Title-page of the Sixteenth annual catalogue and report of the New-England Female Medical College
Title-page of the sixteenth annual catalogue of the New England Female Medical College.
The New England Female Medical College building on Springfield Street
Engraving of the New England Female Medical College building on Springfield Street, Boston.
Obituary of James McCune Smith
An obituary of physician and abolitionist James McCune Smith.
Members of the Class of 1881 of the Harvard Dental School
A photographic print on tin of seven students at the Harvard Dental School; five identified individuals were graduates in 1881.Standing (l-r): Unidentified, unidentified, James Alfred Reilly, William Parker Cooke; seated (l-r): Otis Franklin Smith,…
Slaveholder population of the United States
Statistical profile of the slaveholding population of the United States in 1850.
Slave population of the United States
Statistical profile of the slave population of the United States in 1850.
Louis Agassiz
A photograph of Louis Agassiz before a blackboard.
A description of slavery in the West Indies
Account of slaves and slavery in the West Indies.
Effect of increasing concentrations of ATP on the incorporation of C14-ATP into RNA of pH 5 fraction
"The iron instruments used in the abominable traffic, the slave trade."
Engraving showing instruments used to hobble slaves.
"A slave at work with a head frame and mouth piece to prevent his eating, collar, spurs, &c with a 56 pound weight fastened to his body to prevent his absconding."
Engraving of a slave at work with a weight and mouth gag.
"Permanence of characteristics in different human species." Pages 529-532.
Louis Agassiz describes physical differences between Indians of Brazil and native Africans and warns against interbreeding of races.
"Carolina Negroes."
Reproduction of advertisement of sale of slaves.
"Map of the Slavery of the United States."
Map showing number of slaves in Southern states.
Title-page of The Two-fold Slavery of the United States (1854)
Title-page of The two-fold slavery of the United States.
Frontispiece of Negroes and Negro slavery : the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition by J. H. Van Evrie.
Historical justification of slavery.
First page of "The Invisible Faculty" by Eleanor Shore
Page from "The Invisible Faculty" by Eleanor Shore, 1983. Printed in the Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, Summer 1983. Full bulletin is available here: https://archive.org/details/harvardmedicala57harv.
Title-page of Negroes and Negro slavery : the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition by J. H. Van Evrie.
Historical justification for slavery.
Title page of Observations on the epidemic now prevailing in the city of New-York by Christopher C. Yates.
Title-page of Observations on the epidemic now prevailing in the city of New-York by Christopher C. Yates.
"Advice to the planters of the southern states", Pages 037-039.
Advice on the medical care of slaves in the southern states.
The speech of the right honourable William Pitt, on a motion for the abolition of the slave trade, in the House of Commons, on Monday the second of April, 1792. Pages 002-005.
Speech of William Pitt on the abolition of the slave trade.
Title page of The speech of the right honourable William Pitt, on a motion for the abolition of the slave trade, in the House of Commons, on Monday the second of April, 1792.
Speech of William Pitt on the abolition of slavery in England.
An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa by Alexander Falconbridge. London : Printed by J. Phillips, 1788. Page 034-035.
Description of a sale of slaves.
Title page to An essay on the more common West-India diseases (1764)
Title page to An essay on the more common West-India diseases (1764)
Joint Committee on the Status of Women wins Sharon P. Clayborne Staff Award, 2012
In 2012, the Joint Committee on the Status of Women was awarded the Sharon P. Clayborne Staff Diversity Award. Pictured are JCSW 2011-2012 Staff Co-Chair, Aun Em and 2010-2011 Staff Co-Chair, Darla White with Dean Jeffrey S. Flier after receiving…
Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton was the first woman appointed to the faculty at Harvard University, and founder of occupational medicine. M.D. University of Michigan, 1893. Studied pathology and bacteriology at the Universities of Leipzig and Munich, Germany,…
Preface to An Essay on the More Common West-India Diseases (1764)
Beginning of preface to An Essay on the More Common West-India Diseases.
Medical bill from William Davis to Thomas Foxcroft.
Bill for medical services to Thomas Foxcroft, including charge for "his negro man, Cambridge."
Title-page of A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery (1817)
Title-page of A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery (1817).
"Kidnapping"
Engraving depicting abduction of free African American woman by slaveholders.
"Table LXXI. Slave population of the United States."
Statistical profile of number of slaves in America in 1850.
"Table XC. Classification of Slave Holders in the United States."
Statistical profile of American slave holders in 1850.
Title-page of Inside View of Slavery (1855)
Title-page of Inside View of Slavery (1855).
The Thumb Screw
Description of an iron wristband worn by a slave.
Louis Agassiz
Photograph of Louis Agassiz.
Ida Henrietta Hyde in her laboratory at the University of Heidelberg, 1896
Ida Henrietta Hyde in her laboratory at the University of Heidelberg, 1896.
Raquel E. Cohen's Certificate of Matriculation to Harvard Medical School
Raquel E. Cohen's Certificate of Matriculation to Harvard Medical School, dated February 23 1945. Cohen was a member of Harvard Medical School's first coeducational class.
Raquel E. Cohen's Letter of Acceptance to Harvard Medical School
Raquel E. Cohen's Letter of Acceptance to Harvard Medical School, dated February 16, 1945. Cohen was a member of Harvard Medical School's first coeducational class.
Harriot Kezia Hunt
Harriot Kezia Hunt (1805-1875) was a medical practitioner who trained under Dr. Richard Dixon and Elizabeth Mott. She opened her own medical consulting room in Boston in 1835 without a diploma. She applied to Harvard Medical School for the first time…
Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Chester Pierce, Perspectives of Change
Oral history interview between oral historian Joan Ilacqua and Dr. Chester Pierce, Emeritus Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Taken 13 January 2015 Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts as part of Equal Access: Oral Histories of…
First class of women admitted to Harvard Medical School, 1945
Photograph of the first class of women admitted to Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1945.
Front row: Ladislas Dolores Wojcik; Doris Ruth Rubin; Ellen Ann Schwartz; Martha Joan Kern Caires; and Marjorie Jane Kirk.
Second row: JoAnn…
Front row: Ladislas Dolores Wojcik; Doris Ruth Rubin; Ellen Ann Schwartz; Martha Joan Kern Caires; and Marjorie Jane Kirk.
Second row: JoAnn…
No. 22 General Hospital pin
Enamel pin presented by the Harvard Corporation to Marguerite Condon, commemorating her nursing service at No. 22 General Hospital with the Harvard Surgical Unit.
Drawing of U.S. Base Hospital No. 6.
World War, 1914-1918.
"Many changes made in personnel of Base Hospital No. 5, the Harvard Unit"
Newsclipping from the Boston Herald, September 29, 1918.
Final inspection of the Harvard Unit at Fort Totten, N.Y.
Photograph of the final inspection of the Harvard Unit at Fort Totten, N.Y.
Mobile Hospital No. 6.
Concerning Base Hospital No. 5 was, according to its editors, originally conceived "on the same idea of a college year book, to contain personal write-ups of every member of the unit…. Steps were immediately taken to get together pen sketches of…
"The Commanding Officer and the Queen, Camiers, July 6, 1917"
Harvey Cushing published this historical account of Base Hospital No. 5 soon after the war's end, as it was "one of the Units of the American Expeditionary Force to be sent overseas; it was the first to suffer casualties at the hands of the enemy;…
"Honor Harvard '17 Medical Unit"
Private Oscar C. Tugo enlisted on May 7, 1917; he was killed as a night orderly during the air raid on Base Hospital No. 5 on September 4, along with Lieutenant William Fitzsimons, Privates Rudolph Rubino, Jr., and Leslie G. Woods. On October 18,…
The Vanguard : First in France (May 1918)
A monthly newsletter from the personnel of Base Hospital No. 5--the first publication from the American Expeditionary Forces--began to appear in November 1917. The issue displayed commemorates a year's anniversary since the departure for France and…
Photograph of Oscar C. Tugo
Photograph of Oscar C. Tugo in uniform.