William Helfand collection of medical ephemera
Collection
Call Number: Pam Coll 8
Overview
The collection contains printed ephemera related to medicine and pharmacy either arranged in albums by William Helfand or donated in loose form. These include trade cards (some on marijuana and street drugs), postcards, advertisements in various formats for patent medicines and devices, advertisements for cancer cures, playing cards, cards of famous scientists and physicians, stock certificates for pharmaceutical companies, photographs of old pharmacies, pharmacy prescription envelopes, stereoscopic photographs, and more.
Dates
- 1817-2007
Creator
- Helfand, William H. (Collector)
Language of Materials
Mostly in English, but also in a variety of other languages, among them French, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian.
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by William Helfand.
Extent
5 Linear Feet ((16 three-ring albums and 2 archives boxes one of which is legal size) )
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
- AIDS (Disease)
- Advertising -- Medicine
- Advertising cards
- Albums
- Asthma -- Treatment
- Beecham's Pills (Firm)
- Cancer -- Treatment
- Cigarettes -- Great Britain
- Deafness
- Dentists
- Drugs of abuse
- Drugstores -- Denmark
- Drugstores -- Great Britain
- Drugstores -- Sweden
- Drugstores -- United States
- Electricity in medicine
- Elliman, Sons & Co
- Ephemera (general object genre)
- Haggard, Howard Wilcox, 1891-1959
- Hay fever -- Treatment
- Health insurance -- Great Britain
- Health insurance -- United States
- Invitations
- J. C. Eno Ltd
- Marijuana
- Medicine -- History
- Medicine shows
- Patent medicines
- Pharmacists
- Pharmacy colleges
- Photographs
- Physicians
- Playing cards
- Postage stamps
- Postcards
- Quacks and quackery
- Radio scripts
- Slides
- Stereoscopic photographs
- Stock certificates
- Trade cards
- Trusses
Creator
- Helfand, William H. (Collector)
- Title
- William Helfand collection of medical ephemera
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Toby A. Appel
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Repository
Contact:
Yale University
333 Cedar St.
New Haven CT 06520-8014 US
203-737-1192
203-785-5636 (Fax)
historical.library@yale.edu
Yale University
333 Cedar St.
New Haven CT 06520-8014 US
203-737-1192
203-785-5636 (Fax)
historical.library@yale.edu