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Digital Collections

Materials from the Library's rare book room and historical collections that have been digitized for online research and enjoyment:

New York Milk Committee Ephemera

Materials issued between 1910 and 1917 or 1918 by the New York Milk Committee and its Committee for the Reduction of Infant Mortality, dealing with their work in the Blue Front milk stations in New York City where they distributed milk and educated mothers

The Resurrectionists

Broadsides, ballads, pamphlets, prints, and more concerning the body snatchers and murderers William Burke and William Hare, their accomplices, and their victims

The William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Approximately 300 colorful pharmaceutical trade cards produced in the U.S. and France between 1875 and 1895 that were used to advertise a wide range of goods

Special Public Event

The NYAM Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health Presents:

"Of Wards and War": The Importance of Good and Bad Medical Care in the American Civil War

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
5:30PM-7:00PM

Margaret Humphreys, the Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine at Duke University, will present a paper outlining the components of the best and worst of Civil War medicine, and argue that the conditions in southern hospitals were so far inferior to those of the north that it probably made a difference to the war effort.

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S class materials are being returned to the Library and should be
available in January of 2012.

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Library's renovation project

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