Miriam Pauls Hardy
Photo is courtesy of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives
I am entering into my third year of graduate study in history at Johns Hopkins. As a graduate student in the early stages of dissertation research, my experience working with the William G. and Miriam P. Hardy Collection has been an interesting and instructive one. Continue reading
Erich Lindemann.
The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that processing of the Erich Lindemann papers is nearing completion. Continue reading
Frank B. Polk
Photo courtesy of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives
Frank Polk was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University from 1982 up until his death from a brain tumor in October, 1988 at the age of 46. Continue reading
Entrance to The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Photograph courtesy of The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives.
Project staff at the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions are well into processing three of the four personal paper collections that were selected to be part of the CLIR project to process hidden special collections. Continue reading
Cover of Ambler’s logbook.
The Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery’s Office of Medical History is uploading their 1000th item to the Medical Heritage Library. Oddly enough, the item, a logbook from Dr. James Ambler, is not medical. Instead it documents polar weather conditions. Continue reading
If not, we’d love you to check it out and let us know what you think! Email us at medicalheritage@gmail.com.
Due to a flood over the weekend, the US Navy’s BUMED’s Office of Medical History will have an interruption in archival services. 95% of the collection was completely unaffected, but due to wet flooring and drywall, all of it will have to be packed up and placed in storage for at least a month. A set of 19th century hospital plans and maps did get wet, but are being freeze-dried.
For the next four weeks, limited reference services will be available. Telephone service has been interrupted, and voice mail messages should not be left.
Contacts are Archivist Michael Rhode at michael.rhode@med.navy.mil
or Historian Andre Sobocinski at andre.sobocinski@med.navy.mil
We’re always adding new items to our collection. Here are some of the latest: Continue reading
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re doing some revamping of our website. Some old pages are going away, some are getting new names and new content, and some entirely new ones are being added.
If you’re looking for the page that used to be called Tools for Digital Research, we halved it: look here and here.
If you’ve got suggestions for our new resources list, please drop us an email at medicalheritage@gmail.com.
If you’re looking for the code for our embeddable search box, our API, dataset, or information on how to join our collaborative, check back soon! All of that will be coming on our Develop@MHL and Join pages!
And if you haven’t already, please take a spin on our brand new full text search tool and let us know what you think. You can enter terms in the box at the top of the right-hand sidebar or visit our new Search page that offers you two search options as well as further help and tips.
And as always for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
We’ve made it even easier to test out our new fulltext search tool for the MHL!
Just look to your right at the top of the sidebar and you’ll see our brand new embeddable search box:
Check it out — play around and let us know what you think at medicalheritage@gmail.com.
