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A Board of Health quarantine card warning that the premises are contaminated by diphtheria.

Relics of the Infectious Past: Disease Warning Sign Collection

May 7, 2020 Circulating Now

By Charles Rosenberg ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. The history of public health cannot be understood without artifacts

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Multi-color magazine spread showing 200 stamp-like pictures of chairs with names of AIDS victims in the fashion industry

Visualizing World AIDS Day

November 29, 2019 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Annually on December 1st, World AIDS Day energizes the public to unite in the fight against AIDS and to commemorate

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An African American man and woman next to posters at a conference

Ephemera in the Dr. Leonidas H. Berry Collection

July 18, 2018 Circulating Now

The National Library of Medicine announces new public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982 manuscript

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The title of A printed poem with a gold foil star at the top.

Dr. Mitchell’s Christmas Poem, 1913

December 23, 2015 Circulating Now

By Laura Hartman ~ For his 1913 Christmas greeting card, eminent 19th century neurologist and best-selling novelist Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) penned a poem entitled

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Compoite image of a postcard featuring a drawing of a Red Cross nurse and the hadwritten back of a postcard set over a map.

Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection

September 2, 2014 Circulating Now

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

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