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NLM Organizational Archives
History of Medicine Division Records

HMD serves NLM’s rare books, archives, and exhibition functions. Holdings include pre-1914 books, pre-1871 journals, archives and modern manuscripts, medieval and Islamic manuscripts, a collection of printed books, manuscripts, and visual material in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean; historical prints, photographs, films, and videos; pamphlets, dissertations, theses, college catalogs, and government documents.

Further information is available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/

Call Number Title

802

Exhibits and Publications, 1911-1995 (1 linear ft.)

806

General Correspondence, 1959-1991 (4.5 linear ft.)

0822

Film Log, 10 binders, 1963-1972

1997-028

Exhibit Files, 1960s-1990s (1.25 linear ft.)

1999-056

Reading room journals

2001-048

Register of readers, 1983-88

2001-050

Visiting Scholars Program, Applications (forms, cvs, correspondence, reports, applications, published materials and notes), 1984-1988 (0.42 linear ft.)

2001-052

Exhibit: “Death and Disease in the Neighborhood: Medical Maps of Washington, D.C., 1878-1909” (articles, clippings, correspondence, notes, movie script, copies of maps), 1991-1996 (0.42 linear ft.)

2001-053

Exhibit: “William Blake at the Library of Medicine” (articles, promotional materials, research files, drafts, correspondence, notes, and photographs), 1997-1998 (0.21 linear ft.)

2001-054

Exhibit: “If You Knew the Conditions...Healthcare to Native Americans” (articles, correspondence, notes, negatives, photographs, slides, promotional flyers, research files, biographical materials for Susan La Flesche Picotte, speech transcript, copies of documents used in exhibit), 1993-1994 (0.42 linear ft.)

2001-076

Exhibit - "Breath of Life" poster, signed by Jackie Joyner Kersey and Nancy Hogshead, 1999

2001-086-087

Exhibit management, incunabula collation, #312381, Petrus Hispanus, 1957

2001-091

John B. Blake Papers (articles, memos, and a transcribed address), 1962-1982 (1 FF)

2001-092

William J. Wilson Memorandum (correspondence), 1949, 1957 (1 FF)

2001-093

50th Anniversary (correspondence between Richard A. Lyders, President of the Medical Libraries Association and John Parascandola, Ph.D. Chief of HMD), 1992 (1 FF)

2001-094

NIH Travel Policy (correspondence between Peter B. Hirtle, Curator, HMD and E. Jean Myers, Chief, Travel and Administrative Services Branch, office of Research), 1991 (1 FF)

2001-109

Correspondence, 1987-94

2001-113

Staff reprints, J. S. Billings notecards, 1966-83

2001-115

Time and Attendence Notebooks, 1988-1990 (4 linear ft., 15 Black books)

2001-155

John Shaw Billings Centennial. Papers, 1965

2002-001

Exhibit Files, 1946

2002-004

Exhibit files, 1946

2002-014

Correspondence. American Medical Imprints project, 1954-72

2002-029

Index catalogue. Index Foundation

2002-058

Hanks, Dorothy T. Ref. Librarian reprints, 1966-85

 

Reference

 

Register of patrons in the reading room, 1943

 

Incunabula exhibit, 1984

 

John Parascandola, Former chief, HMD

0732

Wyndham Miles oral histories, 1974-81

2002-049

Miles, Wyndham D. John Shaw Billings files, 1889, 1894, 1983-84

2002-059

Miles, Wyndham D. Miscellaneous Files, 1901-1992

MS C 431

Miles, Wyndham D. History of NLM papers

Last reviewed: 13 October 2006
Last updated: 04 January 2005
First published: 19 May 2004
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