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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

You never know what you'll find in the archives

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Balkan Owls, ca 1913, by Merl LaVoy. (Reeve 39645) And our Flickr stats for the moment stand at 1,618 items / 876,972 views, up only ~7000 v...

Two pictures from 1898

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SKIN LESIONS OF HOG CHOLERA. AMM 489 SENDING CARRIER PIGEON FROM RELIEF (DURING THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR). AMM 64 This is a t...

Museum's scanning software upgrade adds thumbnails

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We've got 2 online catalogues running now - EMU for our internal databases and another for our scanning project. The scanning project on...
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Feed the Dawgs

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Mike Lemish, one of our researchers who wrote a book on military working dogs in Vietnam , (due out in February) sent me an email about a fu...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

"New" Civil War picture found

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The other day someone asked about Civil War surgeon Eugene Shaw. I would have walked right to the Shaw collection , but Jasmine handled the ...
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Digital archives

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A friend sent me a link to an article in Library Journal, The E-Memory Revolution , which discusses a topic that is so important to archives...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

Darwin Symposium: Finished Proofs? A symposium to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species (1859)

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The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine and the Office of History at the National Institutes of Health are ...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Inventor of medical ultrasound has died

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Interesting obituary for him in JOHN J. WILD, 95; Doctor Advanced Medical Uses of Ultrasound, By Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post Staff W...

Civil War Reenactment at NMHM next Saturday, 10/3, 10am-5pm

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“Civil War Reenactment at the Medical Museum”   When : Saturday, October 3, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Where : The National Mu...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

NY Times on insurance falling behind medical technology

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Insurers Fight Speech-Impairment Remedy By ASHLEE VANCE Published: September 15, 2009 Devices like iPhones and netbook PCs that can help the...

Flickr picture statistics

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Since the Flickr site is blocked at work, we've been spending less time updating it - it's no longer a useful tool for showing rese...

Ruminations on the latest issue of museum & society

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This rolled in recently:     Hello, Subscribers to museum & society ,   The latest issue of museum & society is now avai...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Interesting public health article on social media and hapiness

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This has some very interesting ideas in it - I think I believe they're correct. Any opinions? Is Happiness Catching? By CLIVE THOMPSON P...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Excellent water public health article in NY Times

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The Times has an excellent investigative report on the public health issue of clean water in today's paper - Toxic Waters Clean Water La...

Today's Post has an editorial on Walter Reed

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The New Walter Reed: Less Than 'World Class'? By Stephen Schimpff Sunday, September 13, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Teddy Bear Clinic on Saturday

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Teddy Bear Clinic to take place Saturday, September 12 On Saturday, September 12 from 1-3 p.m., the National Museum of Health and Medicine...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

On a couple of nondescript stereographs

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Here's a couple of stereographs I bought over the weekend, due to their rough relationship to the Museum: The 'Dutch Courtship' ...
Friday, September 4, 2009

We've been blogged

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A couple of our flu photos have shown up on the blog e-l-i-s-e . When I saw the title of yesterday's post - GRIPPE ESPAGNOLE 1918 1919 -...
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Museum to Participate in Cultural Tourism DC's Fall WalkingTown DC

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Museum to Participate in Cultural Tourism DC’s Fall WalkingTown DC   Below is the listing from Cultural Tourism’s website ( www.Walkin...

Development of the Historical Archives

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The Registry of Noteworthy Research in Pathology disgorged another treasure this morning. We have a copy of the AFIP Letter, this particular...