Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:
Addinell Hewson photographs of surgery patients
Collection
Identifier: P-AH
Overview
The Addinell Hewson photographs of surgery patients is a small collection of seven photographs, dating between 1861 and 1865, and including tumors, fractures, and amputations.Addinell Hewson was born in 1828 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1850. He was a resident of Pennsylvania Hospital, and later opened his own practice. Hewson also served as assistant surgeon to the Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church, surgeon to...
Dates:
1861-1865
Albert S. Ashmead papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/029
Overview
The Albert S. Ashmead papers (1875-1910) is a fine collection
documenting the professional experiences of a well-known American
leprologist. The focus of the collection is Ashmead's correspondence
with other leprologist and international figures concerning
the 1897 Berlin lepra conference. The collection also contains
manuscripts of Ashmead's articles, the text for an unpublished
anthology on Japanese medicine, and research notes and translations
of articles concerning leprosy and...
Dates:
1869 - 1910
Alexander Rush papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/243
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Alexander Rush's papers, 1931-1984, with
some earlier material, documents his personal life, professional
career, and interest in his ancestor, Benjamin Rush, and includes
lectures and addresses, writings, awards, certificates, diplomas,
and photographs.Series 1 contains letters, a passport, curricula vitae, bibliographies,
and printed material concerning Rush's life and career, 1922-1984.
Material, 1812-1981, concerning Benjamin Rush (1746-1813)
is in...
Dates:
1812 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1931 - 1984
Arthur Asbury Presidential Papers
Series
Identifier: CPP 2/014-01
Overview
Arthur K. Asbury, Van Meter Professor of Neurology Emeritus, is one of the country's most noted neurologists, recognized for his clinical and experimental studies of peripheral neuropathies, particularly those related to chronic kidney failure, diabetes mellitus, and Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Asbury was born in 1928 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his bachelor's degree in agriculture from the University of Kentucky in 1951, and went on to study at the University of Cincinnati College of...
Dates:
2000-2008, undated
Arthur K. Asbury papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/351
Overview
Arthur K. Asbury (b. 1928), Van Meter Professor of Neurology Emeritus, is an internationally recognized neurologist, best known for his clinical and experimental studies of peripheral neuropathies. Most of his career was spent at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he was a clinician, educator, researcher, and administrator. The bulk of this collection documents Dr. Asbury's work as Vice Dean of Research and Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985 - 2000; 1958 - 2007
Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P-APCA
Scope and Contents
This collection contains over 350 photographs of surgical techniques, practices, and cases which require surgery; orthopedic surgery patients; skiagraphs of fractured bones; and other related images. The majority of the images can be found in Ashhurst's Surgery; its principles and practice, for students and practitioners (1914).
Dates:
circa 1900-1920
Charles F. Guillou papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/253
Scope and Contents
The collection, 1818-1899, contains autobiographical reminiscences
and sketchbooks documenting the naval career and voyages of
surgeon Charles F. Guillou. Also included are several letters,
family papers and obituaries, and photographs.Series 1 contains several volumes of Guillou's incomplete autobiographical
reminiscences, describing his childhood; education, classmates,
and faculty at the American Classicaljand Military
Lyceum; experiences in Cuba in 1836; courtship and...
Dates:
1818 - 1899
Collection of biographies of dermatologists
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3/023
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, curriculum vitae, photographs, and printed material providing biographical information about United States and foreign dermatologists. The collections is arranged into 19 series, each covering a part of the alphabet. Materials are filed according to the dermatologist’s name.
Dates:
1923 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1971 - 1974
Collection of dermatological illustrations and photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/360
Overview
This collection consists of over 1800 illustrations, engravings, and photographs of skin conditions taken from various sources (journals and books) and pasted on black paper, often with a description on the verso. Also included in this collection are an incomplete set of the Stereoscopic Skin Clinic stereograph cards by Selden Irwin Rainforth, 1910; and various dermatological stereograph cards with descriptions from Albert Niesser's Stereoskopischer Medizinischer Atlas, 1894-1911....
Dates:
circa 1895-1922
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