This collection consists of 64 photographs, drawings, certificates, and artifacts from the medical and military career of Thomas H. Burford. Photographs include group portraits with friends and colleagues and portraits of Evarts A. Graham. Drawings are by F.C. Kelly and depict surgical proceedures. Certificates include diplomas, awards, military appointment and discharge certificates, proclamations, certificates of appreciation, and in memorium certificates. Artifacts include a key to the city of Vicennes, Indiana, foreign currency collected during Burford's overseas military service during World War II, and a Society of Thoracic Surgery felt badge.
This collection consists of 5 certificates awarded to Theodore E. Walsh throughout his career, including certificates of service, merit, and appreciation.
This collection consists of 30 photographs related to Thelma R. Teachenor. The photographs primarily depict scenes from capping ceremonies, including serveral images of Teachenor pinning caps on nursing students and serving punch at a party.
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.
18 Kodak boxes, 4 wood negative cases, 3 legal clamshell document cases of 35mm negatives and two ring binders with handwritten chronological list of negatives.
This collection consists of 9 photographs depicting A. Ernest and Jane G. Stein, William H. Danforth, Joseph J. Volpe, and other Washington University School of Medicine faculty at a reception for the endowment of the Stein Professorship of Developmental Neurology.
This collection consists of 5 photographs depicting six visiting women physicians from the former Soviet Union during a visit to Washington University School of Medicine in 1957. One of the photographs depicts all six women during a press conference, while the others show one or more of the visiting doctors in conversation with Washington University doctors.
This collection consists of 10 prints reproduced from original caricatures depicting scenes related to the creation and dissemination of the smallpox vaccine. The original caricatures were created by French, German, and Italian artists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
This collection consists of 13 certificates and 1 photograph pertaining to Samuel W. Wilson, a 1901 Doctor of Medicine graduate of the Washington University Medical Department.
