Yale Medical Library
Organization
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Harvey Williams Cushing Papers in the Yale University Library
Collection
Call Number: MS 160
Overview:
The Harvey Williams Cushing Papers in the Yale University Library are composed of correspondence, subject files, writings, family papers, artifacts, and writings about Harvey Cushing. The papers document the personal life and professional career of a medical giant and pioneer neurosurgeon. They reveal Cushing as a doctor, teacher, soldier, administrator, bibliophile, and scientist, whose diverse achievements are important to the histories of the Harvard Medical School, Peter Bent Brigham...
Dates:
1745-1965, bulk 1887-1939
John Farquhar Fulton papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1236
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, memoranda, writings, photographs, and memorabilia, which document the career of John Farquhar Fulton as a neurophysiologist, medical historian, and bibliophile. The files also include personal and professional letters which reflect his involvement in organizations and projects including his work with the National Research Council, particularly in aviation medicine and in editing a medical history of World War II. Fulton's writings concern physiological and...
Dates:
1892-1988, bulk 1920-1960
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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John Farquhar Fulton papers
Historical Medical Library, Yale University, correspondence with Jozsef Antall
Collection
Call Number: RU 116
Overview:
The records contain correspondence and printed material exchanged between Ferenc Gyorgyey, librarian for the Historical Medical Library, Yale University, and Jozsef Antall, Hungarian scholar, librarian, and political figure.
Dates:
1973-1993
Sterling Hall of Medicine, Yale University, photographs
Collection
Call Number: RU 701
Overview:
The materials consist of photographs of Sterling Hall of Medicine at Yale. Includes photographs documenting the construction of the medical library in 1940.
Dates:
1924-1949
Edward Clark Streeter collection
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 25
Overview:
Edward Clark Streeter, 1874-1947, was a graduate of Yale College in 1898 who practiced medicine in Chicago in the early part of his career. After his move to Boston in 1907, he became a book collector, a historian of medicine, and a friend and collaborator of Harvey Cushing on historical projects. When he moved to Stonington, Connecticut in 1928, he was appointed from 1939 to 1933 visiting professor of history of medicine at Yale. In 1941, he donated his collection of weights and measures and...
Dates:
1921-1948
Yale Medical Library opening and dedication
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 12
Overview:
Correspondence, printed materials, and clippings saved by Madeline Stanton, Secretary of the Historical Library, concerning the building, opening, and formal dedication of the Yale Medical Library on June 15, 1941.
Dates:
1939-1942
Yale Medical Library, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 94
Overview:
The records consist of annual reports, minutes, accreditation records, budgets, and correspondence, including files of Frederick G. Kilgour and Stanley D. Truelson as directors of the Yale Medical Library. A significant number of records relate to Kilgour's involvement with early library automation efforts. Other records pertain to Kilgour's published writings on library automation, the history of science and technology, and library administrative concerns.
Dates:
1948-1987