RG M-CL02, Series 00096, 00097, 00098, 00100
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Center for the History of Medicine. Boston Medical Library. Images, ca. 1870-1971: Finding Aid.
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Center for the History of Medicine.
Harvard Medical Library and Boston Medical
Library
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April 2005
© 2005 President and Fellows of Harvard
College
Repository:
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Center for the History of Medicine.
Title: Boston Medical Library. Images, ca. 1870-1971.
Creator:
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Center for the History of Medicine.
Quantity:
225 images.
Abstract: This finding aid describes photographs, negatives, slides, and photomechanical prints of Boston Medical Library officers, librarians, members, events, library materials, and buildings. Go directly to images.
The Boston Medical Library. Images, ca. 1870-1971, are four series from an artificial collection assembled in the 1960s from the holdings of the Harvard Medical Library and the Boston Medical Library. The photographs are now housed at the Center for the History of Medicine in Countway Library. Images were acquired individually or removed from manuscript or archival collections and filed by subject. Because of this practice, the provenance of many of the images has been lost.
Processed by Judy Greene, April 2005. Selected information from the image collections management database at the Center for the History of Medicine in Countway Library was exported for inclusion in this finding aid. Formal titles for photographs are used when supplied, otherwise, descriptive titles were created and enclosed in brackets. When possible, images are described as groups rather than individually and representative images selected for viewing on-line. 'Identical' images may vary in condition and the presence or absence of inscriptions or mounts. Location number includes size. Images are small (S = 8 x 10 inches or less), medium (M = greater than 8 x 10 inches and less than 11 x 14 inches), large (L = greater than 11 x 14 inches and less than 16 x 20 inches), extra large (XL = greater than 16 x 20 inches), color slides (CS = 35 mm.), or glass plates (G = up to 4 x 5 inches). A few images have also been cataloged more fully in VIA, Harvard's on-line image database.
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Reference Services and Access Information.
This finding aid was produced as part of a
Library Digital Initiative (LDI) grant project. To provide increased access to visual collections, the LDI project staff described approximately 4500 historical images of Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, and the Boston Medical Library in a series of OASIS finding aids. Of the images described in these finding aids, 1600 were digitized, stored in the Harvard Digital Repository (DRS), and are viewable online. To provide historical context, the finding aids also include links to digitized pages of Harvard annual reports in the Harvard-Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf.
This finding aid describes photographs, negatives, slides, and photomechanical prints of Boston Medical Library officers, librarians, members, events, library materials, and buildings. Images depict building exteriors at 5 Hamilton Place, 19 Boylston Place, and 8 The Fenway; interior views of 19 Boylston Place and 8 The Fenway; events and meetings; and library materials including books, book plates, and library catalogs. Unless noted all images are black and white.
Images are organized by subject into 4 series that are further organized by location or subject into 8 subseries. Within subseries similar photographs are organized into image groups. Series are arranged alphabetically, subseries are arranged chronologically, and image groups are arranged alphabetically. Within image groups individual images are arranged chronologically by date of original image represented. N.B.: Image display may be affected by your choice of browser.
Series Overview
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Series 00097: Buildings and grounds. Images,
ca. 1870-1965.
36 images.
Historical Note: The first Boston Medical Library, founded in 1805 by members of the Medical Improvement Society and administered for much of its tenure by Harvard Medical School faculty, lasted until 1826, when its collection of medical literature was donated to the Boston Athenaeum. When a second Boston Medical Library was founded in 1875, the Boston Atheneum returned many important volumes to the newly reconstituted library. This second Boston Medical Library continues today as part of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. More information about the history of the Boston Medical Library:
President's Report, 1959-1960.
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Subseries B: Boston Medical Library, 1878-1901 (19 Boylston Place). Images, 1918.
2
images.
Historical Note: In 1878 the Boston Medical Library Association purchased 19 Boylston Place, the former residence of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe, to house its library and serve as a meeting place for the Observation Medical Society, Medical Improvement Society, Massachusetts Medical Society, and Suffolk District Medical Society.
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Image: 00097.680.
Boylston Place about 1890,
1918.
Retouched 1895
photomechanical print.
Location: M018.09.
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Subseries C: Boston Medical Library, 1901-1965 (8 The Fenway). Images, ca. 1900-1965.
31
images.
Historical Note: In 1899 the Board of the Boston Medical Society voted to sell 19 Boylston Place and build a larger building near the Fens, an area that landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted had recently converted from mud flats into parkland. The Boston Medical Library remained at 8 The Fenway from 1901 until 1965, when its collections (over 245,000 volumes) were moved along with those of the Harvard Medical Library (over 166,000 volumes) into the new Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine on the campus of Harvard Medical School.
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Image Group 1. Building site and construction. Images,
ca. 1900-1950.
7 images.
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Image: 00097.708.
Site of the Boston Medical Library in 1881,
ca. 1918.
Copy photograph of original 1881 painting by Darius Cobb.
Location: L020.03.
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Image: 00097.709.
Site of the Boston Medical Library in 1881,
ca. 1918.
Copy photograph of original 1881 painting by Darius Cobb.
Location: L020.04.
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Image: 00097.696.
Same as above.
Location: S046.04.
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Image: 00097.695.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
1918.
Copy of original 1881 painting by Darius Cobb.
Location: S046.03.
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Image: 00097.763.
Same image as above.
Copy photograph,
ca. 1950,
of 1918 photomechanical print of original 1881 painting by Darius Cobb.
Location: S047.23.
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Image: 00097.706.
Boston Medical Library, 8 The Fenway, under construction,
1900.
Location: XL001.05.
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Image: 00097.705.
Same image as above.
Copy photograph,
ca. 1950,
of original 1900 photograph.
Location: L020.01.
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Image Group 2. Facade. Images,
ca. 1901-1965.
17 images.
Historical Note: Need for additional space to house the rapidly expanding collections became apparent almost as soon as the Library was dedicated. In 1903 the Board acquired land adjacent to the building and began raising funds for a stack addition. A basement was completed in 1908, but further construction was postponed during World War I. In 1930, a three-story shell was added over the basement, but the interior of the stack addition was never completed.
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Image: 00097.688.
Dedication of the new building of the Boston Medical Library,
1901.
Photomechanical print.
Location: M018.11.
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Image: 00097.689.
[Original facade of Boston Medical Library],
ca. 1903.
Photomechanical print. Copy of original photograph, ca. 1903.
Location: S043.36.
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Image: 00097.707.
Same as above.
Location: L020.02.
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Image: 00097.697.
Same as above.
Location: S046.05.
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Image: 00097.699.
Same as above.
Location: S046.07.
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Image: 00097.700.
Same as above.
Location: S046.08.
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Image: 00097.704.
Same image as above.
Copy photograph,
ca. 1965,
of original 1919 photograph.
Location: M020.01.
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Image: 00097.702.
Same as above.
Location: S046.10.
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Image: 00097.701.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
ca. 1975.
Copy of original 1919 photograph.
Location: S046.09.
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Image: 00097.693.
[Boston Medical Library, 8 The Fenway, and corner of Boylston Street (left)],
1918.
Location: S046.01.
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Image: 00097.690.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
ca. 1918.
Copy of original 1918 photograph.
Location: S043.37.
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Image: 00097.691.
Same as above.
Location: M018.15.
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Image: 00097.686.
[Boston Medical Library with 1930 addition in winter],
ca. 1935.
Location: S043.32.
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Image: 00097.764.
Same image as above.
Film transparency,
ca. 1935.
Copy of glass plate negative, ca. 1935.
Location: G002.10.
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Image: 00097.687.
[Boston Medical Library (8 The Fenway) with 1930 addition and Massachusetts Medical Society (22 The Fenway)],
ca. 1965.
Copy photograph of original photograph, ca. 1945.
Location: M018.10.
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Image Group 3. Facade details. Images,
ca. 1919-1965.
7 images.
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Image: 00097.684.
[Entrances of Boston Medical Library (8 The Fenway) and Massachusetts Medical Society (22 The Fenway)],
ca. 1953.
Location: S043.30.
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Image: 00097.692.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
ca. 1953.
Location: M018.16.
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Image: 00097.685.
[Entrance and first floor of Boston Medical library],
ca. 1953.
Location: S043.31.
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Image: 00097.682.
Boston Medical Library building entrance after renovation,
ca. 1960.
Location: S043.28.
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Image: 00097.683.
Same as above.
Location: S043.29.
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Image: 00097.681.
Entrance sign,
1965.
Location: S043.27.
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Series 00098: Events. Photographs,
1964.
47 photographs.
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Subseries A: Boston Medical Library, 1901-1965 (8 The Fenway). 75th Anniversary of Oliver Wendell Holmes' gift to the Boston Medical Library - Tea. Photographs, 1964.
47
photographs.
Historical Note: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. served from 1875 to 1888 as President of the second Boston Medical Library's Executive Committee. Upon retiring from office, he donated his collection of 698 medical books to the Library, which accepted them formally on January 29, 1889. Exactly seventy-five years later, as the Boston Medical Library was planning to join with the Harvard Medical Library in forming the new Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, members gathered on January 29, 1964 to remember Dr. Holmes' generosity and look to the future.
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Image Group 1. Program. Photographs,
1964.
19 photographs.
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Image: 00098.452.
[Deans C. Sidney Burwell and George Packer Berry with portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by E.T. Billings],
1964.
Location: S048.16.
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Image: 00098.451.
[Deans C. Sidney Burwell and George Packer Berry with portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by E.T. Billings],
1964.
Location: S048.15.
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Image: 00098.019.
[Dr. Henry R. Viets at podium],
1964.
Location: S022.17.
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Image: 00098.020.
[Dr. Henry R. Viets at podium],
1964.
Location: S022.18.
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Image: 00098.405.
[Dean George Packer Berry at podium],
1964.
Location: S034.30.
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Image: 00098.426.
[Audience of Boston Medical Library members and guests],
1964.
Persons depicted: James M. Baty, Philip D. Bonnet, Allen S. Johnson (President of Massachusetts Medical Society), John J. Byrne, Mrs. Chapman, Earle M. Chapman, Francis M. Rackemann, Mrs. Means, Paul D. White, Dale G. Friend, Henry D. Stebbins, Grant D. Rodkey, Mrs. Burwell, unidentified, Walter G. Phippen, John W. Norcross, William J. Brickley.
Location: S047.30.
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Image: 00098.421.
[Audience of Boston Medical Library members and guests],
1964.
Location: S047.25.
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Image: 00098.462.
Same as above.
Location: S048.24.
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Image: 00098.420.
[Mr. Ralph Esterquest (left) and Mr. Charles C. Colby, III (right), librarians of the Harvard Medical School and the Boston Medical Library, respectively, in Holmes Hall],
1964.
Location: S047.24.
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Image: 00098.460.
Same as above.
Location: S048.22.
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Image: 00098.433.
[Howard B. Sprague (left), President of the Boston Medical Library, and George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, hold a volume from the collection of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.],
1964.
Location: S047.37.
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Image: 00098.464.
[Dean C. Sidney Burwell examines the shell of a chambered nautilus],
1964.
Location: S048.26.
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Image: 00098.434.
Same as above.
Location: S047.38.
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Image Group 2. Reception. Photographs,
1964.
28 photographs.
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Image: 00098.454.
[Members and guests at Boston Medical Library tea in Holmes Hall],
1964.
Left to right: Walter L. Burrage, C. Sidney Burwell, Edward D. Churchill, Robert W. Lovett, George Nichols, Jr., Anna C. Holt, Charles C. Colby, III, James H. Shaw, John J. Byrne, unidentified, Henry R. Viets, unidentified, Edward P. Richardson, Jr.
Location: S048.18.
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Image: 00098.455.
Same as above.
Location: S048.19.
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Image: 00098.446.
Same as above.
Location: S048.10.
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Image: 00098.430.
[Mrs. Burwell, Dean George P. Berry, Howard B. Sprague, Dean C. Sidney Burwell],
1964.
Location: S047.34.
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Image: 00098.428.
[Mrs. Burwell, Dean George P. Berry, Howard B. Sprague, Dean C. Sidney Burwell],
1964.
Location: S047.32.
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Image: 00098.453.
Same as above.
Location: S048.17.
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Image: 00098.437.
[Mrs. Burwell, George Nichols, Jr., Edward D. Churchill, and Henry D. Stebbins],
1964.
Location: S048.01.
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Image: 00098.441.
[Philip D. Bonnet, Charles S. Davidson, Dale G. Friend, Mrs. Scharff, Edward P. Richardson, Jr. and Joseph Garland],
1964.
Location: S048.05.
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Image: 00098.423.
[Foreground: Francis M. Rackemann and Charles S. Davidson],
1964.
Location: S047.27.
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Image: 00098.424.
[George C. Shattuck, Grant V. Rodkey, Dale G. Friend, Joseph Garland, Mrs. Scharff],
1964.
Location: S047.28.
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Image: 00098.443.
[Edward D. Churchill and William J. Brickley],
1964.
Location: S048.07.
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Image: 00098.436.
[Two unidentified, Grant V. Rodkey, Edward P. Richardson, Jr.],
1964.
Location: S047.40.
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Image: 00098.450.
[Walter G. Phippen, Howard B. Sprague, Miss Miriam R. Small, J. Howard Means, Mrs. Means, Edward D. Churchill, Joseph W. Gardella, Miss Anna C. Holt],
1964.
Location: S048.14.
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Image: 00098.438.
[Charles C. Colby, III, Dean C. Sidney Burwell, J. Howard Means, Edward D. Churchill, Mrs. Means, Miss Anna C. Holt],
1964.
Location: S048.02.
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Image: 00098.445.
[J. Howard Means, Mrs. Means, Miss Anna C. Holt],
1964.
Location: S048.09.
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Image: 00098.427.
[Miss Miriam R. Small, unidentified, Howard B. Sprague, Charles C. Colby, III, J. Howard Means, Mrs. Means],
1964.
Location: S047.31.
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Image: 00098.429.
[Harold J. Bloomquist, Howard B. Sprague, Charles C. Colby, III, Mrs. Means],
1964.
Location: S047.33.
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Image: 00098.444.
[Lamar Soutter, J. Howard Means, Mrs. Means, unidentified],
1964.
Location: S048.08.
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Image: 00098.442.
[Joseph W. Gardella, Howard B. Sprague, Lamar Soutter, Dale G. Friend, J. Howard Means, Mrs. Means],
1964.
Location: S048.06.
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Image: 00098.425.
[Edward P. Richardson, Jr., Joseph Garland, and George C. Shattuck],
1964.
Location: S047.29.
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Image: 00098.447.
[Mrs. Burwell, George C. Shattuck, Edward P. Richardson, Jr., Dale G. Friend, Joseph Garland, Grant V. Rodkey],
1964.
Location: S048.11.
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Image: 00098.431.
[Howard B. Sprague, Walter G. Phippen, Charles C. Colby, III, Dean C. Sidney Burwell, and Henry D. Stebbins],
1964.
Location: S047.35.
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Image: 00098.422.
1964.
Same as above.
Location: S047.26.
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Image: 00098.440.
[Mrs. Burwell, George Nichols, Jr., Edward D. Churchill, Joseph W. Gardella, and Henry D. Stebbins],
1964.
Location: S048.04.
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Image: 00098.435.
General view of tea, Oliver Wendell Holmes Hall, Boston Medical Library,
1964.
Location: S047.39.
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Image: 00098.448.
Bust of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in Holmes Hall of Boston Medical Library,
1964.
Location: S048.12.
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Image: 00098.449.
Portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in Holmes Hall of Boston Medical Library,
1964.
Location: S048.13.
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Series 00096: Interiors. Images,
ca. 1900-1964.
89 images.
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Subseries A: Boston Medical Library, 1878-1901 (19 Boylston Place). Images, 1900-1950.
14
images.
Historical Note: Hired to transform the residential building at 19 Boylston Place into a library, architect Henry Van Brunt, designer of Harvard's Memorial Hall, converted the basement and first floor into a large meeting hall. He divided the second floor into a front reading room for members and a smaller back room for library business. When one of Boston's first telephones was installed in 1879, a Directory of Nurses, the first such employment registry in the country, was an immediate success and an important source of revenue for the Library.
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Image group 1. Meeting Hall. Images,
ca. 1900-1918.
5 images.
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Image: 00096.526.
Boston Medical Library, 19 Boylston Place, Meeting Hall,
1900.
Location: S043.06.
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Image: 00096.527.
Same image as above.
Copy photograph,
ca. 1918,
of original 1900 photograph.
Location: S043.07.
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Image: 00096.528.
Same image as above.
Copy photograph,
ca. 1918,
of original 1900 photograph.
Location: S043.08.
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Image: 00096.531.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
1918.
Copy of original 1900 photograph.
Location: M018.07.
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Image group 2. Reading Room. Images,
ca. 1900-1950.
5 images.
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Image: 00096.521.
Same as above.
Location: S043.02.
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Image: 00096.522.
Same image as above.
Copy photograph,
ca. 1918,
of original 1900 photograph.
Location: S043.03.
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Image: 00096.524.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
ca. 1918.
Copy of original 1900 photograph.
Location: M018.01.
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Image: 00096.523.
Same image as above.
Copy photograph,
ca. 1950,
of original 1900 photograph.
Location: S043.04.
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Image group 3. Rear room. Images,
ca. 1900-1930.
4 images.
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Image: 00096.529.
[Mr. James F. Ballard, Second Assistant, at his desk in the rear room at No. 19 Boylston Place, Boston Medical Library],
1900.
Location: S043.24.
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Image: 00096.530.
Same image as above.
Copy photograph,
ca. 1918,
of original 1900 photograph.
Location: S043.25.
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Image: 00096.532.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
1918.
Copy of original 1900 photograph.
Location: M018.07.
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Image: 00096.545.
Same image as above.
Lantern slide,
ca. 1930.
Copy of 1918 photomechanical print of original 1900 photograph.
Location: G002.09.
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Subseries B: Boston Medical Library, 1901-1965 (8 The Fenway). Interiors. Images, ca. 1914-1964.
75
images.
Historical Note: When the new building, designed by the architectural firm of Hunnewell and Shaw, opened at 8 The Fenway in 1901, the Harvard College Library sent 3570 of its medical volumes to the Boston Medical Library on deposit. More information:
President's Report, 1901-1902.
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Image group 1. Architectural plans. Images,
1918.
3 images.
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Image: 00096.627.
First floor plan,
1918.
Print, ca. 1903, retouched to show floor plan in 1918.
Location: M020.09.
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Image: 00096.626.
Second floor plan,
1918.
Print, ca. 1903, retouched to show floor plan in 1918.
Location: M020.08.
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Image: 00096.625.
Third floor plan,
1918.
Print, ca. 1903, retouched to show floor plan in 1918.
Location: M020.07.
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Image group 2. Hallways. Photographs,
1953-1960.
5 photographs.
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Image: 00096.583.
Second floor corridor and Office of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery,
1953.
Location: S046.24.
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Image: 00096.594.
[Entrance to New England Journal of Medicine offices],
1953.
Location: S046.35.
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Image: 00096.598.
Entrance foyer before restoration,
1960.
Location: S046.39.
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Image: 00096.587.
Entrance foyer after Allen Fund renovations,
1960.
Location: S046.28.
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Image group 3. Holmes Hall. Images,
ca. 1918-1958.
13 images.
Historical Note: The main reading room on the second floor was named in honor of the Boston Medical Library's former president, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. More information about Dr. Holmes' career:
President's Report, 1894-1895.
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Image: 00096.570.
Same as above.
Location: S046.15.
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Image: 00096.571.
Same as above.
Location: L020.08.
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Image: 00096.628.
Same image as above.
Copy photograph,
ca. 1950,
of 1918 photomechanical print of original 1918 photograph.
Location: S047.21.
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Image: 00096.651.
[Boston Medical Library members reading in Holmes Hall],
1928.
Location: S048.31.
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Image: 00096.617.
Same as above.
Location: S047.13.
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Image: 00096.181.
Same image as above.
Lantern slide,
ca. 1929.
Copy of original 1928 photograph.
Location: G001.69.
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Image: 00096.621.
[Boston Medical Library members reading in Holmes Hall],
ca. 1930.
Location: S047.17.
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Image: 00096.580.
Holmes Hall before renovation,
1953.
Copyright Fayfoto.
Location: S046.21.
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Image: 00096.582.
Holmes Hall before renovation, which was accomplished in late 1950s,
1953.
Location: S046.23.
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Image: 00096.581.
Holmes Hall (reading room), late 1950s after renovation,
ca. 1958.
Copyright Fayfoto.
Location: S046.22.
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Image: 00096.599.
Same as above.
Location: S046.40.
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Image: 00096.601.
Same as above.
Location: S047.02.
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Image group 4. Holmes Hall details. Images,
ca. 1928-1958.
8 images.
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Image: 00096.623.
Mantle with bust of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in Holmes Hall, Boston Medical Library,
1928.
Location: S047.19
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Image: 00096.174.
Same image as above.
Lantern slide,
ca. 1929.
Copy of original 1928 photograph.
Location: G001.37.
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Image: 00096.622.
[Bookends decorated with medical figurines holding up a collection of books in the Boston Medical Library],
ca. 1928.
Location: S047.18.
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Image: 00096.596.
[William Norton Bullard Collection of incunabula in Holmes Hall],
1953.
Location: S046.37.
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Image: 00096.597.
[Solomon M. Hyams Collection of Hebraic Medical Literature in Holmes Hall],
1953.
Location: S046.38.
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Image: 00096.588.
[Interlibrary loan materials for Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston University School of Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, a Veterans Administration unit, an industrial concern and several individuals],
1953.
Location: S046.29.
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Image: 00096.602.
[Mantle with bust of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in Holmes Hall after renovations],
ca. 1958.
Copyright Fayfoto.
Location: S047.03.
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Image: 00096.600.
Same as above.
Location: S047.01.
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Image group 5. Rooms and halls. Images,
ca. 1914-1953.
23 images.
Historical Note: A 300-seat auditorium on the third floor was named for John Ware (HMS 1853), a smaller first floor hall seating 75 was named in honor of Richard Sprague (HMS 1887), and a committee meeting room on the intermediate floor was named for William Cranch Bond Fifield (HMS 1851). In 1905 the periodical reading room was named in memory of James Read Chadwick (HMS 1871), first librarian of the Boston Medical Library and founder of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association. In 1930 the Chadwick Periodical Room was transformed into a reading room and renamed in memory of Morton Prince (HMS 1879).
Arrangement:
Images are arranged alphabetically by name of room depicted.
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Image: 00096.565.
Same as above.
Location: L020.05.
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Image: 00096.569.
Same as above.
Location: L020.07.
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Image: 00096.518.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
ca. 1918.
Location: M017.25.
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Image: 00096.573.
Same as above.
Location: L020.09.
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Image: 00096.629.
Same image as above.
Copy photograph,
ca. 1950,
of 1918 photomechanical print of original 1918 photograph.
Location: S047.22.
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Image: 00096.633.
Same image as above.
Copy photograph,
ca. 1945,
of original photograph, ca. 1935.
Location: L021.01.
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Image: 00096.577.
Sprague Hall,
1918.
Location: L020.10.
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Image: 00096.534.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
ca. 1918.
Location: M018.08.
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Image: 00096.567.
Same as above.
Location: L020.06.
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Image: 00096.519.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
ca. 1918.
Location: M017.25.
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Image group 6. Stacks building. Images,
ca. 1914-1964.
23 images.
Historical Note: During the Depression funds were raised to continue work on the stack addition. Although the interior was never completed, enough money was raised to construct exterior walls and a roof for the new three-story wing, which was dedicated on Feb. 5, 1930.
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Image: 00096.608.
[Picture taken to show crowded condition of basement and need for new building for library stacks],
1914.
Location: S047.07.
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Image: 00096.607.
Basement stacks,
1928.
Location: S047.06.
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Image: 00096.624.
[Overcrowded stacks at the Boston Medical Library],
1928.
Location: S047.20.
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Image: 00096.584.
Frederick S. Howsberger operating basement 'service elevator,'
1953.
Location: S046.25.
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Image: 00096.590.
[Catwalk in the stacks connecting galleries lining the exterior walls],
1953.
Location: S046.31.
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Image: 00096.592.
[Shelves of periodicals in the basement stacks],
1953.
Location: S046.33.
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Image: 00096.616.
Basement stacks,
1953.
Location: S047.12.
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Image: 00096.613.
[Temporary periodical stacks in basement of unfinished addition to the Boston Medical Library],
ca. 1964.
Location: M020.05.
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Image: 00096.614.
[Temporary book stacks in basement of unfinished addition to the Boston Medical Library],
ca. 1964.
Location: M020.06.
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Image: 00096.611.
[Basement stacks],
ca. 1964.
Location: S047.10.
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Image: 00096.652.
[Ralph Esterquest viewing an early medical illustration in the stacks of the Boston Medical Library],
ca. 1964.
Location: M020.12.
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Image: 00098.402.
Same as above.
Location: S034.27.
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Image: 00096.653.
Ralph Esterquest, Harvard Medical Librarian, browses in the 'bargain basement' of the Boston Medical Library,
ca. 1964.
Location: M020.13.
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Image: 00096.606.
[Ralph Esterquest, Harvard Medical Librarian, in the basement stacks of the Boston Medical Library],
ca. 1964.
Location: S047.05.
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Image: 00096.604.
Of course the Boston Medical Library has a copy - in the boiler room!
ca. 1964.
Location: M020.02.
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Image: 00096.612.
[Temporary stacks and unprocessed books in basement of unfinished addition to the Boston Medical Library],
ca. 1964.
Location: M020.04.
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Image: 00096.605.
[Unprocessed materials and temporary stacks in basement of unfinished addition to the Boston Medical Library],
ca. 1964.
Location: M020.03.
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Image: 00096.610.
Same as above.
Location: S047.09.
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Series 00100: Subjects. Images,
ca. 1918-1971.
53 images.
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Subseries A: Boston Medical Library, 1901-1965 (8 The Fenway). Library materials. Images, ca. 1918-1971.
18
images.
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Image group 1. Book plates. Images,
ca. 1918.
7 images.
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Image: 00100.166.
Boston Medical Library presentation book plate of John Fleet, M.D.,
ca. 1918.
Copy photograph of original bookplate, ca. 1805-1813.
Location: S043.35.
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Image: 00100.172.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
ca. 1918.
Copy of original bookplate, ca. 1805-1813.
Location: M018.14.
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Image: 00100.165.
Book plate of first Boston Medical Library,
ca. 1918.
Copy photograph of original bookplate, ca. 1805-1826.
Location: S042.45.
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Image: 00100.173.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
ca. 1918.
Copy of original bookplate, ca. 1805-1826.
Location: M018.14.
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Image: 00100.168.
Academy book plate,
ca. 1918.
Photomechanical print. Copy of original bookplate, ca. 1903.
Location: M018.12.
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Image: 00100.171.
[Bibliotheca Bostoniensis Medicinae book plate],
ca. 1918.
Photomechanical print. Copy of original bookplate, ca. 1904.
Location: M018.14.
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Image: 00100.116.
Same image as above.
Lantern slide,
ca. 1918.
Copy of photomechanical print, ca. 1918, of original bookplate, ca. 1904.
Location: G002.14.
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Image group 2. Catalogs and library materials. Images,
ca. 1918-1971.
11 images.
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Image: 00100.169.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
ca. 1918.
Location: M018.13.
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Image: 00100.162.
Catalogue of books in the Boston Medical Library and rules and regulations concerning the same,
ca. 1918.
Original catalog, 1808.
Location: S043.34.
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Image: 00100.170.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
ca. 1918.
Location: M018.13.
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Image: 00100.115.
Same image as above.
Lantern slide,
ca. 1918.
Copy of photomechanical print, ca. 1918.
Location: G002.13.
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Image: 00100.167.
Same image as above.
Photomechanical print,
ca. 1918.
Copy of original photograph, ca. 1900.
Location: M018.08.
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Image: 00100.114.
Same image as above.
Lantern slide,
ca. 1918.
Copy of photomechanical print of original photograph, ca. 1918.
Location: G002.12.
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Image: 00100.117.
[Form letter from Charles C. Colby, III, Associate Librarian for Library Services, to Boston Medical Library fellows],
1971.
Color slide.
Location: CS001.14.
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Image: 00100.118.
Same as above.
Location: CS001.14.
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Subseries B: Boston Medical Library, 1901-1965 (8 The Fenway). Staff. Images, ca. 1918-1964.
35
images.
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Image group 1. Librarians. Images,
ca. 1918-1964.
9 images.
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Image: 00100.175.
[Cast members costumed for historical skit in Holmes Hall, Boston Medical Library],
ca. 1925.
Location: L020.11.
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Image: 00100.139.
[Unidentified patron, Reading Room Assistant Irene G. Powers, and two representatives from McLean Hospital delivering inter-library loan materials in Holmes Hall],
1953.
Location: S049.01.
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Image: 00100.132.
[Beatrice A. LaRochelle, Secretary to the Director of the Boston Medical Library],
1953.
Location: S048.40.
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Image: 00100.122.
[Charles C. Colby, III, and others at a dinner],
ca. 1954.
Location: S048.30.
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Image: 00100.129.
[Librarians from Boston Medical Library at a dinner],
ca. 1956.
Location: S048.37.
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Image: 00100.131.
[Frank B. Howland, daughter Rose E. Hayes, and grandson David W. Hayes, three generations who staffed the Boston Medical Library],
ca. 1964.
Location: S048.39.
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Image group 2. Officers. Images,
ca. 1918-1958.
26 images.
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Image: 00100.113.
Same image as above.
Lantern slide,
ca. 1930.
Copy of 1918 photomechanical print of original photograph, ca. 1890.
Location: G002.11.
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Image: 00100.153.
[Executive Committee, Boston Medical Library],
1921.
Seated (l to r): John W. Farlow, George H. Monks, Walter L. Burrage. Standing (l to r): Stephen Rushmore, Richard G. Wadsworth, Edward C. Streeter, John W. Bartol, John W. Cummin.
Location: L021.11.
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Image: 00100.127.
Same as above.
Location: S048.35.
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Image: 00100.143.
[Executive Committee, Boston Medical Library],
1921.
Seated (l to r): John W. Farlow, George H. Monks, Walter L. Burrage. Standing (l to r): Stephen Rushmore, Richard G. Wadsworth, Edward C. Streeter, John W. Bartol, John W. Cummin.
Location: S049.05.
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Image: 00100.150.
[Executive Committee, Boston Medical Library],
1921.
Seated (l to r): Walter L. Burrage, Richard G. Wadsworth, Edward C. Streeter, Stephen Rushmore, John W. Bartol, John W. Cummin, John W. Farlow, George H. Monks. Absent: Malcolm Storer.
Location: L021.09.
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Image: 00100.174.
Executive Committee, Boston Medical Library,
1921.
Seated (l to r): Richard G. Wadsworth, John W. Farlow, George H. Monks, Walter L. Burrage. Standing (l to r): John W. Cummin, Edward C. Streeter, John W. Bartol, Stephen Rushmore. Absent: Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Location: S046.20.
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Image: 00100.151.
[Executive Committee, Boston Medical Library],
1921.
Composite photograph. Same image as above with portrait of Malcolm Storer added. Seated (l to r): Richard G. Wadsworth, John W. Farlow, George H. Monks, Walter L. Burrage. Standing (l to r): John W. Cummin, Malcolm Storer, Edward C. Streeter, John W. Bartol, Stephen Rushmore.
Location: L021.10.
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Image: 00100.148.
Same as above.
Location: L021.07.
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Image: 00100.149.
Same as above.
Location: L021.08.
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Image: 00100.130.
Members of the Boston Campaign Committee,
ca. 1928.
Seated (l to r): William C. Quinby, John W. Bartol, Frederic H. Kent. Standing (l to r): Richard G. Wadsworth, Walter C. Howe, Charles S. Butler, Horace Binney, David Cheever.
Location: S048.38.
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Image: 00100.135.
[Unidentified man at the Boston Medical Library],
ca. 1950.
Location: M020.11.
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Image: 00100.133.
[Three unidentified men at the Boston Medical Library],
ca. 1950.
Location: M020.10.
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Image: 00100.152.
[Ten of sixteen Boston Medical Library trustees],
ca. 1953.
Seated (l to r): Franz J. Ingelfinger, Howard B. Sprague, Arthur W. Allen, Richard Warren, Joseph Garland. Standing (l to r): Samuel Proger, John W. Norcross, Benjamin Spector, Franc D. Ingraham, Henry R. Viets.
Photomechanical print.
Location: M020.20.
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Image: 00100.138.
Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees putting finishing touches on the Greater Service Program plans,
ca. 1953.
Seated (l to r): Franc D. Ingraham, Arthur W. Allen, Richard Warren. Standing (l to r): Henry R. Viets, Howard B. Sprague.
Photomechanical print.
Location: M020.14.
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Image: 00100.125.
[Unidentified, Howard B. Sprague, and Samuel B. Proger presiding at a meeting of the Boston Medical Library in Sprague Hall],
ca. 1954.
Location: S048.33.
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Image: 00100.124.
Same as above.
Location: S048.32.
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Image: 00100.126.
[Members of the Boston Medical Library in Sprague Hall],
ca. 1954.
Location: S048.34.
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Image: 00100.120.
Same as above.
Location: S048.28.
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Image: 00100.140.
Dr. Viets' special table, Boston Medical Library Annual Meeting, April 1, 1958, Harvard Club of Boston,
1958.
Standing (l to r): Henry R. Viets, J. Howard Means, Conrad Wesselhoeft, Elliott P. Joslin, Henry C. Marble, Francis M. Rackemann, Walter G. Phippen.
Location: S049.02.
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Allen, Arthur W. (Arthur Wilburn), 1887-
Ballard, James F. (James Francis), 1878-
Bartol, John Washburn.
Berry, George Packer, 1898-
Bloomquist, Harold.
Brickley, William Joseph, 1873-1965.
Brigham, Edwin Howard, 1840-
Bullard, William Norton, 1853-1931.
Burrage, Walter L. (Walter Lincoln), 1860-1935.
Burwell, Charles Sidney, 1893-1967.
Butler, Charles St. John, 1875-1944.
Chadwick, James R. (James Read), 1844-1905.
Cheever, David, 1876-
Churchill, Edward D. (Edward Delos), 1895-1972.
Cobb, Darius, 1834-1919.
Colby, Charles Clifton.
Davidson, Charles S. (Charles Sprecher), 1910-
Esterquest, Ralph Theodore.
Farlow, John Woodford, 1853-1937.
Fifield, William Cranch Bond, 1828-1896.
Friend, Dale Gilbert.
Garland, Joseph, 1893-
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Holt, Anna C.
Ingelfinger, Franz J. (Franz Josef), 1910-
Ingraham, Franc Douglas, 1898-1965.
Joslin, Elliott Proctor, 1869-1962.
Marble, Henry C. (Henry Chase), b. 1885.
Means, James Howard, 1885-1967.
Monks, George H. (George Howard), 1853-1933.
Nichols, George, 1922-
Phippen, Walter G., 1876-
Prince, Morton, 1854-1929.
Proger, Samuel, 1906-
Quinby, William Carter, 1877-1952.
Rackemann, Francis Minot, 1887-
Richardson, Edward Peirson, 1918-
Shattuck, George Cheever, 1879-1972.
Sprague, Howard Burnham, 1895-1970.
Spector, Benjamin, 1893-1976.
Storer, Malcolm, 1862-
Streeter, Edward Clark, d. 1947.
Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903.
Viets, Henry R. (Henry Rouse), 1890-
Warren, Richard, 1907-
Wesselhoeft, Conrad, 1884-
Boston Medical Library.
Boston Medical Library (1805-1826)
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
Massachusetts Medical Society.
Medical Library Association.
Park Street Church (Boston, Mass.)
Bookplates -- Massachusetts.
Boston Medical Library (1805-1826) -- Catalogs.
Harvard Medical School -- Alumni and alumnae.
Harvard Medical School -- Faculty.
Harvard Medical School -- Photograph collections.
Incunabula.
Interlibrary loans -- Massachusetts.
Journal of bone and joint surgery.
Library catalogs -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Medical libraries -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Medical literature.
Nautilus.
New England journal of medicine.
Physicians -- Portraits.
Portraits, Group.
Streets -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Lantern slides.
Negatives.
Photographs.
Photomechanical prints.
Slides (photography)
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