Group Caricatures and Cartoons
- VC525
- Collection
Group Caricatures and Cartoons
9 prints in total. 5 prints are from John James Audubon’s Birds of North America : pl.20 Great-Footed Hawk; pl.36 Stanley Hawk; and pl.283 Wandering Shearwater are double elephant folio prints from hand-colored aquatint engravings; pl.1 Wild Turkey Male; and pl.61 Great Horned Owl are double elephant folios from offset lithographs. 4 prints are from Audubon’s Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America : pl.83 Little Chief Hare; pl.107 Lewis’ Marmot; pl. 123 The Sewellel; and pl.145 Townsend Shrew are imperial folio prints of original hand-colored lithographs.
5 hand colored prints made from etchings attributed to George Cruikshank. Printed in 1835 by Thomas McLean.
Becker Library exhibit general index
Deafness in Disguise exhibit : Camouflaged Hearing Devices of the 20th Century.
CID exhibit materials.
Composite Photographs of Non-Washington University Institutions
Composite photographs of students, faculty, and members of colleges and institutions with no affiliation or relation to Washington University.
Bildersammlung aus der Geschichte der Medicine Drawings
This collection consists of 6 drawings depicting portraits of notable physicians from the 16th to the 20th centuries. These portraits were published as art supplements to the German Medical Weekly, and gathered to create the Bildersammlung aus der Geschichte der Medizin, or the Picture Collection from the History of Medicine.
Operations and Facilities Managment Department Photographs
Operations and Facilities Management Department, Washington University School of Medicine
The Central Institute for the Deaf-Max A. Goldstein Historic Devices for Hearing Collection.
The hearing devices in the collection range from small hand-held trumpet type devices; long rubber conversation tubes that allow for the user to hold one end to their ear and the other end directly to the speaker’s mouth; large London-dome shaped devices; animal horns; acoustic fans; walking sticks; a leather and metal device manufactured to resemble a water canteen; telescopic devices that could be discreetly folded within a pocket; headpieces for women; beard receptacles for men; the first electronic hearing device model; devices that resemble radios or cameras; devices hidden within barrettes and eyeglasses; early cochlear implant models, and many more. There are very few duplicate devices with many representing the only known extant models in existence.
Vilray P. Blair Photographs and Drawings
This collection consists of 85 photographs and drawings documenting a range of subjects in the personal and professional life of Dr. Vilray P. Blair (1871-1955). The collection includes photographs of Blair, his family and colleauges, and his residence in Florissant, Missouri. Other depicted subjects from Blair's professional career include his operating room at Barnes Hospital specially decorated by artist Gisella Loeffler (1900-1977), his plaster cast shop, and a selection of his plastic surgery patients. Several of the patient photographs appear in Dr. Blair's published papers, including: "The Surgical Restoration of the Lining of the Mouth" (1923), "The Full Thickness Skin Graft" (1924), and "The Problem of Bringing Forward the Retracted Upper Lip and Nose" (1926).
Blair, Vilray Papin, 1871-1955
Baumgarten Family Photographs and Drawings
157 Photographs, drawings, portraits, group portraits and silhouettes of 4 generations of the Baumgarten family. Subjects include the Frederick Ernst Baumgarten house and farm, the Gustav and Aminda Baumgarten house, civil war pictures of Gustav Baumgarten in uniform with other soldiers during the American Civil War.
Baumgarten family
Benjamin H. Charles Photographs and Drawings
This collection consists of 137 photographs and drawings documenting the years Benjamin H. Charles spent serving as a major for the 21st General Hospital during World War II. The collection includes photographs of Charles, fellow hospital staff and other military personnel, and German prisoners of war (POWs) at various locations in France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, and Algeria. The collection also includes watercolors depicting Charles and various scenes from Bou Hanifia, Algeria by German POW Walter Köhnlein, as well as several promissory notes and a Taittinger champagne label.
Charles, Benjamin H.
Cancer Research Building Dedication and Washington University Convocation Photographs
This collection consists of 29 photographs from 1950, primarily taken at the Cancer Research Building cornerstone laying and dedication, and at a Washington University Convocation banquet.
E.R. Squibb and Sons, Inc. Photographs
This collection consists of 9 photographs taken by the pharmaceutical manufacturerers E.R. Squibb and Sons (now Bristol-Meyers Squibb) during the production of a television program at Washington University School of Medicine.
Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs
This collection consists of 427 photographs and negatives depicting scenes from St. Louis Children's Hospital. For other similar collections, please see VC069, VC111, and VC135.
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Philip A. Shaffer Photographs and Engravings
This collection consists of 19 photographs and one bookplate engraving. Depicted subjects include views of the Biochemistry Laboratory at Washington University School of Medicine, views of Barnes Hospital and the North and South Buildings under construction, and photographs of Philip A. Shaffer and his daughters.
Shaffer, Philip A.
Washington University School of Medicine Department of Anatomy Interiors Photographs
This collection consists of 8 photographs of interiors of the Washington University School of Medicine Anatomy Department on the third and fourth floors of the North Building. Views include the Dissecting Room, Pathology lecture room, Embalming Room, ampitheater, and cadaver storage area.
This collection consists of 16 photographs from the professional life of Dr. Hiromu Tsuchiya (1887-1971). Depicted subjects include portraits of Tsuchiya and his colleagues and Barnes Hospital annual staff photographs.
Tsuchiya, Hiromu