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Inside spread showing poems, part of artist book, "Caudex Folium"

September 11: Remembering, Collecting

September 9, 2021 circulating now

This Saturday marks twenty years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 that occurred in New York City, Arlington, VA, and Shanksville, PA. This

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A photograph from a hilltop shows the utter destruction of several city blocks.

Remembering Dr. Andrew C. Jackson and the Tulsa Race Massacre

June 10, 2021 Circulating Now

June 1, 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Dr. Jackson, a prominent Black physician, was murdered during the massacre.

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Detail of a woodcut featuring St Roch and an angel.

Remembering the Saints of the Plague

November 1, 2019 Circulating Now

By Laura Hartman ~ Today, as many Western Christian churches celebrate All Saints’ Day, it seems fitting to remember the saints in the historical collections

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Image of Dr. Fee surrounded by a collage of her selected publications and images from the NLM historical collections.

Remembering Elizabeth Fee, PhD, 1946-2018

December 27, 2018 Circulating Now

Dr. Fee served most recently as NLM Senior Historian and previously as Chief of the NLM History of Medicine Division for over two decades. On October 17 Ted Brown, Professor of History and Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester, will offer a special public lecture in honor and memory of Dr. Fee.

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Congressman Laird pauses to chat with Dr. James A. Shannon, Director of the National Institutes of Health, in front of the NIH Administration Building.

Remembering Melvin R. Laird, 1922–2016

November 18, 2016 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey Reznick The NLM’s History of Medicine Division mourns the passing of Melvin R. Laird, former Republican congressman from Wisconsin (1953–1969), Secretary of Defense

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Man seated at a desk with a model of the heart on the desk.

Remembering Levi Watkins Jr., 1945–2015

May 1, 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.,

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Clyde Snow, back to the camera, presents images of physical evidence in a trial.

Remembering Clyde Snow, 1928–2014

May 22, 2014 Circulating Now

By Erika Mills and Elizabeth A. Mullen Poring over bones left in mass graves and clandestine burial sites, seeking answers that might shed light on

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Born #OTD in 1818, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician and scientist widely regarded as the “savior of mothers” for his discovery of handwashing as crucial in preventing maternal mortality. In 1850, Semmelweis showed that puerperal fever—also known as childbed fever—was caused by an infection, which could be prevented by disinfecting the hands of the obstetricians and midwives with a chlorine solution before they examined mothers in labor. Today, hand hygiene is recognized as a key practice for health care workers to diminish the spread of infections.
Don't put down that #ComicBook! You may learn something!
In addition to being used to create book pages, #parchment is also an option for covering books. Today on #NationalParchmentDay we're sharing a small manuscript from the mid-#16thCentury. It has a limp parchment cover that has shrunk to the point it no longer fully covers the text block - a common phenomenon for this material, which is very sensitive to the many environmental changes that would happen over the course of centuries.
Today we are celebrating the birthday of Helen Keller (born #OTD in 1880). She lost both her hearing and sight after a bought of illness as a young child and went on to become a disability rights advocate. Among her many achievements was her work on behalf of returning veterans during and after the Second World War. This photograph of Helen Keller at the bedside of a wounded veteran was taken during her visit to the patients of Brooke General Hospital in 1944 and was featured in an article in the hospital's magazine, the Brooke Bluebonnet Broadcast. To the patients and staff she said, "The fighting men have splendid morale...it is hard to define--makes me feel the spirit that is mightier than all wars--a spirit that will at last recreate the world."
Barcodes are wonderful! They are immensely useful for keeping track of collection items in our libraries. Unfortunately, they're also sometimes placed in inconvenient places such as on these reports from the 1880s. In addition to being on the envelope the items are housed in, which is totally cool, both barcodes and call number labels were placed directly on the brittle paper at some point in the past. This isn't best for document preservation for multiple reasons, including that the barcodes are much stiffer and thicker than the surrounding paper. We removed them in the conservation lab so that the historic paper will be safer long term.
This image, produced for the NLM's "AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health: A People's History of a Pandemic" exhibition, was recently featured in the piece by @pozmagazine entitled "Viewing the History of AIDS through Posters." Visit https://loom.ly/R1fL-Bs to follow the conversation between three curators on their recent exhibitions which "emphasize the pivotal role played by HIV and AIDS posters since the virus emerged in the early ’80s." (🔗 link also in bio).

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