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Showing posts with label World War 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War 2. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

From Anderson’s Holler – A World War II medical photographer’s story- available now

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From Anderson’s Holler – A World War II medical photographer’s story- available now A memoir of growing up in the hills of West Virgi...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Rediscovered photographs

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Today I've been stabilizing and doing some research in the Crynes Collection (OHA 143.02). This collection documents the life, and parti...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Today's new collection

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Material is flowing into the Museum as the AFIP and Walter Reed both prepare to close. Today we collected 54 boxes, or 184 bound volumes of ...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

January 22: Lecture on Walter Reed radio show in WW2

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Michael Henry of the University of Maryland's Library of American Broadcasting has let me know about a lecture he's doing: Parks Joh...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Navy World War 2 cartoon by Hotchkiss online now

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MIS 09-7914-1 "He had his heart set on pate de foie gras. Navy chow is the best! Take all you can eat, eat all you can take! Don't ...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Ketcham and Hotchkiss' Navy cartoon posters from World War 2

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Courtesy of the US Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, the National Museum of Health and Medicine has scans of these Navy posters fro...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Rare pictures of Japanese WW2 POW camps

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A couple of rare pictures of Japanese WW2 POW camps for Allied soldiers are up on our Flickr site now - here's one of them - Camp Rules ...
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Letter of the day, April 15

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Balduin Lucké was a Philadelphia pathologist, a professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania, Deputy Curator of the Museum, and ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Photo of the day, April 13

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World War 2 - combat battle scenes (European theater). This section of Heilbronn, Germany, has been completely demolished by Allied air atta...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Photo of the day, March 24

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USS Solace. Commissioned on 08/09/1941; the Solace joined the Fleet on 10/27 and was the first hospital ship to be present in a naval battle...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Photo of the day, March 11

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World War 2. 116th Medical Battalion. Philippine Islands. Clearing Station (Beach). Patient receiving treatment. 03/11/1945. (Higher resolut...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Malaria Moe

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Warren Bernard gave us a nice donation last week of some WW2 malaria education cartoons done by Frank Mack, and a further "donation...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Saipan and Pacific Islands fighting in WW2 on Flickr

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Kathleen just loaded a bunch of pictures from the Island campaigns in the Pacific in World War 2. These photos are pretty gruesome and thei...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Malaria Moe cartoons on Flickr

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Kathleen put up a bunch of scans of World War 2 Malaria Moe propaganda cartoons on Flickr today. The artist, Frank Mack, later went on to wo...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Wired discovers the Museum's online photographs

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See "Rare Trove of Army Medical Photos Heads to Flickr," By Alexis Madrigal, Wired.com's Science blog March 17, 2009 and ...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

My friend Joe Levin has died

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For many years, Jeanne Levin was the tour and volunteer coordinator of the Museum, shepherding various groups around for various reasons. I ...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Navy nurse who was at Pearl Harbor dies

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Capt. Ruth A. Erickson, 95; Leader of Navy Nurse Corps By Patricia Sullivan Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 23, 2008; Page B0...
Friday, November 7, 2008

Found in the Archives

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Found in the Lent Johnson collection - scores of unprocessed boxes from an orthopedic pathologist who worked at AFIP from the 1940s until he...
Saturday, April 26, 2008

Poison Gas

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Earlier this week wired.com ran an article on the 93rd anniversary of the first use of poison gas on the Western Front in World War 1, when...
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Friday, April 25, 2008

Susan L. Smith on WWII Mustard Gas Experiments

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Lecture at NYAM: Susan L. Smith on WWII Mustard Gas Experiments This year, the New York Academy of Medicine's Public Lecture Series in t...