This collection consists of 12 print reproductions of paintings in a portfolio depicting army medicine during World War II. The 12 prints are part of "a series of more than two hundred and fifty pictures by distinguished American artists commissioned by Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Illinois, for presentation to the United States Army as a contribution to the war effort."
56 artifacts related to the 21st General Hospital. Artifacts include embroidered patches from the United States, German, and French armies, flags, armbands, uniforms, commemorative t-shirts, and various artifacts collected by Col. Lee D. Cady during his service as the commander of 21st General Hospital.
This collection consists of 724 photographs, drawings, diagrams, posters, newspaper clippings, and sheet music, and other ephemera related to the 21st General Hospital. The photographs primarily depict staff and patients of the 21st General Hospital from when it was stationed overseas 1942-1945, as well as views of hospital buildings and grounds. Drawings and diagrams include plans for wiring and plumbing, architectural and ground plans, and some schematic drawings of hospital equipment. Other ephemera in the collection include hand-drawn posters advertising Officers' Club dances, newspaper clippings from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Pictures Section depicting operations at General Hospital 21, and cartoon watercolors depicting soldiers and Red Cross workers.
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.
This collection consists of 9 international flags, 1 wooden sign, and 16 photographs collected by Robert W. Kelley during his World War II service with the 21st General Hospital.
This collection consists of 28 photographs from the life of E.V. Cowdry. The photographs are primarily portraits of Cowdry. The collection also includes photos depicting E.V. Cowdry's father, Nathaniel Harrington Cowdry, and group portraits of International Cancer Research Commission members.
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.
This collection consists of 6 photographs related to the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Surgery. Depicted subjects include a studio portrait of Walter Ballinger, a banquet honoring Evarts A. Graham, a group portrait of Department of Surgery, an unidentified outdoor ceremony, and an informal portrait of Graham with Eugene Bricker and Charles Eckert.
This collection consists of 19 photographs related to the career of Jacques J. Bronfenbrenner. Depicted subjects include signed portraits of Bronfenbrenner's colleagues Hiromu Tsuchiya and Kenneth L. Burdon, photographs of members of the Institut Pasteur in Paris, group portraits of the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, and Bronfenbrenner at the Rockefeller Institute with Hideyo Noguchi.
This collection consists of photographs, charts, and drawings mounted on 241 sheets of paper. The images depicit various scenes from Washington University School of Dentistry that were originally bound together in a booklet or binder. The collection of images were likely meant as an exhibit illustrating the importance of the School of Dentistry and to advocate for more funding and for rennovations to the school building.
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.
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).
This collection consists of 7 medallions once belonging to Jacques J. Bronfenbrenner. The medallions include awards, commemorative plaques for Louis Pasteur and Simon Flexner, and medallions commemorating the first and third International Congress for Microbiology.
This collection consists of 666 photographs depicting case study patients, x-rays, kymograms, cholecystograms, autopsy specimens, gallbladder cholangiograms, and various figures used in research publications by Wendell G. Scott.
This collection consists of 26 photographs in an album commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Washington University School of Medicine Class of 1913.
This collection consists of 33 certificates and artifacts documenting the career of Gerty T. Cori. The collection includes the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Gerty Cori and an official reproduction of the Nobel Prize medallion (VC153033).
This collection consists of 14 photographs and 1 certificate from Robert L. Mueller, including a group portrait from the first meeting of past Presidents of the Saint Louis Medical Society in 1951.