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Showing posts with label Historical Collections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historical Collections. Show all posts
Friday, May 27, 2011

Canadian War Museum exhibit borrowed from Medical Museum

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War and Medicine exhibit shows healing in conflict CBC News May 26, 2011 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/05/26/ott-war-museu...
Monday, April 5, 2010

Treasurely finds at the warehouse

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This photo shows what the Historical Collections guys came across in a wooden footlocker/trunk at the warehouse. It's about 3/4 filled w...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Letter of the Day: March 10

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We’d like to again thank COL Barnes and Mr & Mrs Weaver.   MEDEM-MM  Presentation of Instrument to Medical Museum 10 March 195...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Accession of the day, March 7

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We have been scanning our accession records, which makes browsing them a whole lot easier. This letter is dated November 14 but I'm taki...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Ophthalmologist William Holland Wilmer's legacy in two DC institutions

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Here's William Holland Wilmer's plaque at National Cathedral. We have his ophthalmoscopes. I was surprised to see his name on a post...
Monday, November 9, 2009

Medical challenge coin challenge

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Challenge coins have been proliferating in recent years, due to decreasing costs among other reasons. Information can be found in this a...
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Friday, January 30, 2009

Historical Collections staffing at the Museum

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Alan, our longterm collections manager, is off doing something more exciting for a year. Any queries about historical artifacts like equipme...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

New exhibit

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The Historical Collections guys and the exhibit guy finished putting together an exhibit yesterday and I went over and shot some of the proc...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

In other news... excellent History of Embryology site launches

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This press release came through the Caduceus history of medicine list today: Making Visible Embryos, http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/visibleembryos...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Anatomical Theatre website launches

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Morbid Anatomy's launched a new site based on an exhibit of photographs she's done. She writes "I have finally launched the we...
Thursday, April 3, 2008

Body armor article noted in passing

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This article raised a few thoughts about the Museum and the Pathology Institute - "Contracts for Body Armor Filled Without Initial Test...