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Mary Lea Shane Archives of the
Lick Observatory
Mary Lea Shane Archives of the
Lick Observatory
Welcome to the online exhibit of the Moody Medical Library's collection of historical microscopes. Here you will find the images and descriptions of over 40 microscopes, ranging from the 1760s through the 1920s. Some of the instruments are presented with their intricately designed mahogany cases and close-up views of the names of their makers engraved on brass. The exhibit features mostly 19th-century instruments, revealing the various phases in the evolution of the scientific microscope and the art of microscope making.
The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Collections
The Moody Medical Library houses the largest and the most significant collection in the history of the biomedical sciences in the southern United States. The historical holdings, which amount to over 30,000 print titles, constitute an important resource not only for The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston but also for the state and region.
With increasing academic and public interest in first-hand accounts and personal perspectives on historical events, oral histories are a natural addition to the Bancroft Library's pioneering work in on-line access to collections. The Bancroft has been a national leader in digital library initiatives, first by converting its card catalog, then as the lead institution in putting finding aids, or guides to collections, on line (now in the Online Archive of California), and as the implementor of the California Heritage Digital Images Access Project. In the California Heritage project archival objects, in this case collections of photographs, were linked directly to finding aids. Two of the many finding aids in the OAC are the catalogs of the Regional Oral History Office. Wouldn't it be wonderful if researchers could discover an oral history by searching in the finding aids collection, or even in our online catalog, and then go directly to the full text of the item -- the oral history -- itself? This project seeks to achieve that end.
Oral History Online!, part of The Bancroft Library Regional Oral History Office (ROHO), has full-text transcripts of more than 55 fully-searchable interviews online, with plans to add oral histories on Black Alumni at the University of California. The current online offerings include¨The University History Series" focusing on the Free Speech Movement, "The Suffragists Oral History Project,"ncluding the words of twelve women active in the suffrage movement,¨Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement", "The Earl Warren Oral History Project" emphasizing the Earl Warren gubernatorial era, and ¨Health Care, Science, and Technology", featuring interviews regarding the medical response to the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, 1981-1984. ROHO preserves the history of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and the Western United States, covering a wide range of topics, including politics and government, law and jurisprudence, arts and letters, business and labor, social and community history, University of California history, natural resources and the environment, and science and technology. There are also two searchable databases, divided chronologically from 1954-1979 and 1980-1997, of abstracts from the more than 1250 interviews in Berkeley's offline collection. The site also contains an essay on¨Oral History Tips" and two ¨One-Minute Guides" to ¨Conducting an Oral History" and ¨Oral History Interviewing".
Left Omaha depot shortly after 9, the train being sometime behind time. In hurrying off in the morning I didn't get anything to eat-along the road I was expecting a stop for meals. Fremont, Shell Creek, Columbus and Silver Creek were passed and still no dinner. When we arrived at Grand Island, at 5 P.M., I was nearly famished. The dinner was good, however, and so placed that we could help ourselves. If I didn't eat my $1.25 worth then I'm mistaken. Arrived North Platte about 7. Bought a lunch of crackers and sardines and eat them in the car.-
This site presents the journals and photographs of two men who surveyed the western states in the second half of the 19th century. William Henry Jackson was a photographer, artist, and writer who traveled along the route of the Union Pacific Railway in 1869. The site provides access to his journal of the expedition, stereoscopic photographs he took along the way, and mammoth prints Jackson made of sites in Colorado and Wyoming. Jackson's diary describes how he took and developed photographs during the expedition. Robert Brewster Stanton was a civil engineer who surveyed canyons in Colorado for the Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad Company between 1889 and 1890. Visitors to the site can read a facsimile of his typed field notes in four volumes. The notes and photographs provide geologic information, but also give a sense of the everyday life of the expedition. The site includes a 500-word biographical essay for each man and finding aids for the larger collections of their papers housed at the New York Public Library. This site is easy to navigate and is useful for studying western states, the environment, and photography in the 19th century.
The online version of the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress comprises a selection of 4,695 items (totaling about 51,500 images). This presentation contains correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research. Dates span from 1862 to 1939, but the bulk of the materials are from 1865 to 1920. Included among Bell's papers are pages from his experimental notebook from March 10, 1876, describing the first successful experiment with the telephone, during which he spoke through the instrument to his assistant the famous words, "Mr. Watson--Come here--I want to see you." Bell's various roles in life as teacher, inventor, celebrity, and family man are covered extensively in his papers. The digitization of this selection of the Bell Family Papers is made possible through the generous support of the AT&T Foundation.
This site offers nearly 5,000 facsimile items from the large collection of Alexander Graham Bell Family papers. Materials include scientific notebooks, blueprints, articles and speeches written by Bell, seven photographs, more than 3,000 letters to and from Bell and members of his family, and even a few poems Bell wrote as a child. Bell's correspondence includes over 100 letters between Bell and Helen Keller or between Bell and others discussing Keller. The collection may be searched by subject, name, keyword, or series. There are over 100 series of material from aviation to radium to the telephone. Each series includes from one to 60 documents of between one and 300 pages each. The site provides a guide to the material, but no introductory or biographical essay. The site will best serve researchers who already know something about Bell, rather than those just beginning their research.
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project is a historical editing project sponsored by the Department of History at New York University. The Project was formed by Dr. Esther Katz in 1985 to locate, arrange, edit, research, and publish the papers of the noted birth control pioneer.
The collection, including works by and about Florence Nightingale as well as early nursing texts published before 1900, is housed in the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection of the Health Sciences Library, Abbott Hall, South Campus, University at Buffalo.
The collection, including works by and about Florence Nightingale as well as early nursing texts published before 1900, is housed in the Robert L. Brown History of M edicine Collection of the Health Sciences Library, Abbott Hall, South Campus, University at Buffalo.
Short blurb above is all the site offers specifically about the collection. Links to the University of Buffalo's Health Science Library (many of which are available only to UB students and faculty) and offsite resources are available.
The History of Nursing Archives contains an extensive book collection, as well as the personal and professional papers of nursing leaders; records of educational institutions, public health groups and nursing organizations; and histories of various American and foreign schools of nursing. It was established in 1966, with help from a United States Public Health Service grant and the financial support of the Boston University School of Nursing. The books and manuscripts in the History of Nursing Archives document the evolution and contribution of the nursing profession in the fields of public health and military history.
Established in 1966 with help from a United States Public Health Service grant and the support of the Boston University School of Nursing, the History of Nursing Archives contains the personal and professional papers of nursing leaders; records of the schools of nursing; public health and professional nursing organizations; histories of various American and foreign schools of nursing, including early textbooks; as well as an extensive colletion of books.
Archives and Special Collections at the Kalmanovitz Library preserves and maintains unique materials to support research and teaching in the history of the health sciences for faculty and students across all campus disciplines.
The AIDS History Project is a collaboration of historians, archivists, AIDS activists, and others preserving the history of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. The current phase is sponsored by the University of California, Library and Center for Knowledge Management, Archives & Special Collections. The primary objective of this phase of the AIDS History Project is to secure documentation of the response to the AIDS crisis in the city of San Francisco and particularly the development and effect of community based organizations and activist coalitions. The site provides information about AIDS history project collections including images, periodicals, oral histories and institutional records. Lastly, the site has a detailed chronology of the history of AIDS in San Francisco.