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Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine collection [graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Collection

Date:

1975.

Reference:

R10034-0-5-E

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

199076

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Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine collection
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Date(s):

1975.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

12 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English

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Collection consists of a portfolio entitled "Healers of Our Age" consisting of portraits of the following people who devoted themselves to the art and science of healing: Walter Clement Alvarez, Charles Herbert Best, Alfred Blalock, William Boyd, Thomas Stephen Cullen, Albert Einstein, Sir Alexander Fleming, Carl Gustav Jung, Helen Keller, Albert Schweitzer, George Hoyt Whipple, and Paul Dudley White. Photographs are by Yousuf Karsh. The portfolio was produced for the benefit of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Endowment of the Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.

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Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

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Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine : Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

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(Paper) Reproduction of photographs and various press clippings in accession file.

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General note:

Received in 1989 from Dick Wolfe, the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1990-009 DAP
458-89
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [FRANCIS A. COUNTWAY LIBRARY OF MEDICINE 1990-009] SC 0368

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: See accession no. 1987-054 for restrictions. Copyright: Yousuf Karsh. Credit: Yousuf Karsh / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.

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