Digitized Collections
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Arabic & Persian Manuscripts This digitized collection of selected volumes of medical books and manuscripts, dating from 1300 to 1921, is drawn from the Medical Historical... Read more |
Bert Hansen Collection The Bert Hansen Collection of Medicine and Public Health in Popular Graphic Art includes over 1200 images and items produced between 1850 and 2010... Read more |
Bookplates Bookplates are usually considered just a sign of ownership, but many are works of art in their own right. This collection contains American,... Read more |
Civil War Photographs One hundred and fifty years ago, the Civil War raged throughout the United States, creating thousands of casualties. The collection is composed of... Read more |
George E. Palade Slides The images in this collection are derived from high resolution scans of glass 3.25 X 4 inch "lantern slides" that were part of a large collection... Read more |
Harvey Cushing Photographs The Medical Historical Library holds the largest existing collection of photographs of Harvey Cushing. The images span Cushing's life from his... Read more |
Lam Qua Paintings The collection is composed of portraits commissioned by Peter Parker of men, women, and children of a variety of ages and at various stages in the... Read more |
Medical & Scientific Incunables The Medical Historical Library contains over 300 medical and scientific incunabula, which are books, broadsides, and pamphlets printed before 1501... Read more |
Medical Heritage Library The Medical Heritage Library is a growing digital collection that promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. There... Read more |
Medical Historical Posters This collection of historical medical posters brings together various works included in gifts and bequests of Yale Medical faculty Clements C. Fry... Read more |
Medical Instruments This is a large collection of antique medical instruments and related objects acquired over the years entirely through donation. Many of the... Read more |
Medieval Manuscripts This collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts contains early medical and scientific knowledge on a variety of topics, including surgery... Read more |
Pathology Teaching Collection Medical illustration has a long history. For over two thousand years, such illustrations have been used to document and explain anatomy and... Read more |
Peter Parker Papers Peter Parker specialized in treating diseases of the eye, particularly cataracts, but also performed general surgical operations including the... Read more |
Postcards This collection of postcards from the Historical Library features medical institutions in Connecticut: general hospitals, private hospitals,... Read more |
Prints and Drawings The Prints and Drawings collection shows how artists have portrayed issues and events related to health and medicine over six centuries. It is one... Read more |
Salpêtrière Photographs The Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1876-80) is a landmark publication in medical photography. This collection of texts and... Read more |
School of Nursing Collection This collection contains alumni newsletters, magazines, digital theses, and images. There are more items from this collection that are not online... Read more |
Tobacco Advertising For well over a century, the tobacco industry has been selling smoke in America and abroad: marketing the very idea of smoking with the slick and... Read more |
YSM Photographs Photographs of Yale School of Medicine classes and reunions. There are more items from this collection that are not online. Please see the library... Read more |
YSM Theses Starting with the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) graduating class of 2002, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and YSM Office of Student Research... Read more |