Harvard Medical School in 1883

Harvard Medical School in 1883

Frontispieces (illustrations)

Harvard Medical School

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

During the 1880s, Holmes was involved with the fund-raising appeals for the Medical School’s Boylston Street building. As part of the centennial celebration and dedication of the new building in 1883, he delivered this oration, tracing the history of medicine in Boston and Harvard Medical School from the Revolutionary War up to the present day.

Frontispiece from The new century and the new building of the Harvard Medical School, 1783-1883. Addresses and exercises at the one hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Medical School of Harvard University, October 17, 1883 showing Harvard Medical School in 1883

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John Wilson and Son

1884

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Holmes Collection (R747.H22 1884)

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Gift of Dr. James Read Chadwick to the Boston Medical Library, 1901