By Dan Caughey Photograph postcards, known as “real photo” postcards, were popular mementos to send to loved ones before and during World War I. There
Category: Exhibitions
Posts highlighting the products, services, and activities of the NLM’s Exhibition Program.
Remembering Levi Watkins Jr., 1944–2015
By Jill L. Newmark and Margaret A. Hutto In an operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, February 1980, Dr. Levi Watkins Jr.,
A Valentine Message
This valentine is postmarked 1913, the year the newly founded Hall Brothers (now Hallmark) first offered Valentines for sale.
Partners in Illuminating Science
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Aline Lin, co-founder and principal of Link Studio, an interactive design and medical illustration company. Aline worked with the Exhibition
Surviving and Thriving: The Making of an Exhibition
Dr. Jennifer Brier spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Surviving and Thriving: The Making of an Exhibition.” Dr. Brier is director of
A Voyage to Health, a Connection to Communities
By Alicia Yanagihara When you think of the National Library of Medicine, what comes to mind? Is it a Polynesian canoe? That definitely wasn’t my
Dr. Julia Hallam on Pictures of Nursing
Dr. Julia Hallam spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection.” Dr. Hallam is curator of NLM’s
Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection
By Erika Mills For over a century, images of nurses and nursing have been featured frequently as the subjects of postcards—so much so that nursing
Primary Sources: K-12
Kelsey Conway spent her summer months as an intern with the Exhibition Program at the National Library of Medicine. She supported the program with its
Remembering Clyde Snow, 1928–2014
By Erika Mills and Elizabeth A. Mullen ~ Poring over bones left in mass graves and clandestine burial sites, seeking answers that might shed light