Online Exhibits

Harvey Cushing: A Journey Through His Life
Founders and Early Benefactors of the Historical Library
All Available Boats... Harbor Voices & Images 9.11.01
Marie Curie, Radioactivity, and the Emerging New Physics: The Extraordinary Career of a Woman Scientist
Microscopy: Tools of the Biomedical Sciences
The Medical Library at Yale, 1701-2001
The Yale School of Nursing: A Yale Tercentennial Exhibit
Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale: A Yale Tercentennial Exhibit
Yale and Medicine, 1951-2001
Yale and Medicine, 1901-1951
Yale and Medicine, 1701-1901
New Haven's Hospitals: An Online Exhibit

Harvey Cushing: A Journey Through His Life

Harvey Cushing at His New Haven Home, 1937

This exhibit, on display in the rotunda of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library from October 1, 2005 to February 2006, celebrated the Harvey Cushing Family Gathering, a reunion of Cushing's grandchildren and descendants held at Yale School of Medicine on October 1, 2005, and the publication of the first new full-length biography of Cushing since 1950, Michael Bliss's Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery, published by Oxford University Press. The materials are from the Historical Library, Cushing Whitney/Medical Library unless otherwise noted.

Founders and Early Benefactors of the Historical Library

Harvey Cushing at His New Haven Home, 1937

An exhibit in the Cushing Rotunda to commemorate the Endowment of the Historical Librarian Position though the Bequest of John Robinson Bumstead (1925-2003). The exhibit dates were June 18 through September 18, 2004.

All Available Boats... Harbor Voices & Images 9.11.01

An exhibition exploring the sights and sounds of the evacuation of Manhattan Island during the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Displayed at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library's Morse Current Periodical Reading Room through June 27, 2004. Streaming video of symposium talks available.

Created by South Street Seaport Museum, New York City: David Tarnow, Oral Historian and Andrew Garn, Photographer; Martin E. Gordon, MD, Organizer & Coordinator. Exhibit supported by an unrestricted educational grant, Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative.

Medicine Caricatured: British Satirical Prints of the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries

Metallic Tractors, by James Gillray

This exhibit of British satirical prints from the Clements C. Fry Prints and Drawings Collection was prepared by Susan Wheeler in conjunction with the Yale Symposium, The Art in Medicine: Image-Making and Communication. Each case explores a different facet of medical prints as media of communication. The exhibit dates were April 14 - April 28 and May 12 through June 9, 2004.

Marie Curie, Radioactivity, and the Emerging New Physics: The Extraordinary Career of a Woman Scientist

Curated by Toby Appel

This exhibit commemorated the Centennial of the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel in October 1903.

The exhibit is in conjunction with the Yale University symposium Marie Curie Nobel Centennial: Celebrating Women in Science November 6 - 8, 2003.

Marie Curie Nobel Portrait, ca. 1903.

Microscopy: Tools of the Biomedical Sciences

Microscopy: Tools of the Biomedical Sciences is an exhibit of the history of microscopy, current applications and future trends that was on display in the t he Cushing/Whitney Medical Library from April 25 through May 28, 2001. It featured rare historical microscopes as well as modern instruments on the cutting edge of technology.

Microscopy:Tools of the Biomedical Sciences was created in ho nor of Yale's Tercentennial Celebration by Dr. Martin E. Gordon, clinical professor of medicine and chair of the board of trustees of the Associates of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. It was supported by an educational grant from the Carl Zeiss Fo undation. The online version includes rotating images of microscopes.

The Medical Library at Yale, 1701-2001

The Historical Library in 1941. Photo by Samuel Kravitt.

The Medical Library at Yale, 1701-2001, was on display in the rotunda of the Medical Library from mid-December 2001 through January 2002. It was prepared by Toby Appel, Historical Librarian, as the last in a series of Yale Tercentennial exhibit s. Ned Pocengal prepared the Web adaptation.

The Yale School of Nursing: A Yale Tercentennial Exhibit

The Yale School of Nursing at 100 Church Street South

The Yale School of Nursing: A Yale Tercente nni al Exhibit presents the history of nursing education at Yale from the founding of the School in 1923 to 2001. The exhibit was on display in the rotunda of the Medical Library from September throug h November 2001, and was prepared by Mona Florea with the assistance of Helen Varney Burst, Linda Pellico, and Kathleen Bauer. Lilli Sentz prepared additions to the Web version.

Epidemiol ogy and Public Health at Yale: A Tercentennial Exhibit

Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health (LEPH)

Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale presents the history of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health from the first teaching of public health at Yale in the 1880s to 2001. The exh ibi t was on display in the rotunda of the Medical Li brary from September through November 2001, and was prepared by Toby Appel, Historical Librarian, with the assistance of Matthew Wilcox, EPH Librarian.

Yale and Medicine, 1951-2001

Sterling Hall of Medicine

Yale and Medicine, 1951-2001, highlights the past fifty years of medicine at Yale, a period of tremendous growth and change. The exhibit was on display in the rotunda of the Medical Library from J une through August 2001. Lilli Sentz and Toby Appel were the curators with the assistance of Arthur Ebbert, M.D. and Gerard Burrow, M.D.

Yale and Medicine, 1901-1951

Sterling Hall of Medicine, the new home of the School of Medicine, was dedicated in 1925. This picture shows the entrance on Cedar and Davenport Streets before the Institute of Human Relations wing was added in 1931 and the facade altered to its current appearance.

Yale and Medicine, 1901-1951, part of the Medical Library's Tercentennial series of exhibits, was on display in the rotunda of the LIbrary from late January until the middle of April. It covers the period of tremendous growth in which the Medi cal School gradually moved from inadequate quarters at 150 York Street to Cedar Street. This building boom culminated in the building of Sterling Hall of Medicine and the Institute of Human Relations. Under the deanships of George Blumer and Milton Winternitz, agreements were made with the New Haven Hospital, departments were founded, the Yale System of Medical Education was established, the medical school formed closer relations to the graduate school, and an endowment was built up. Also feature d in this segment of the school's history is the school's role in the two World Wars.

This exhibit was prepared by Toby Appel and Lilli Sentz and is based in part on the manuscript history of the Medical School by Gerard N. Burrow, M.D.

Yale and Medicine, 1701-1901

Postcard of the first home of the Yale School of Medicine, then known as the Medical Institution of Yale College. The school was located at the corner of Grove and Prospect Streets from 1813 t o 1860.

Yale and Medicine, 1701-1901, which was on display in the rotunda of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library from late October 2000 to late January 2001, features ephemera, memorabilia, and photographs of Conne cti cut physicians who graduated from Yale College in the 18th century and it traces the development of the Yale School of Medicine from its charter in 1810 to the school's celebration of the Yale Bicentennial in 1901.

This exhibit was prepared by Toby Appel from materials in the Historical Library and is based in part on the manuscript histories of the Medical School by Elizabeth Thomson and Gerard Burrow, M.D.

New Haven's Hospitals: An Online Exhibit

The first home of the State Hospital, now Yale-New Haven Hospital, built in 1833. This building was located between Howard and Cedar Streets and faced Cedar Street.

New Havens Hospitals, was originally on display in the rotunda of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library from May to September 2000. It features photographs and ephemera related to the origins, early years, and complex in teractions of the citys many hospitals and their relations to Yale University. It is the first in a planned series of Yale Tercentennial Exhibits in the rotunda of the Library.

New Haven's Hospitals was curated jointly by Toby Appel, Historical Librarian of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Shari Laist, former Archivist for the St. Raphael's Healthcare System, and Allison Carboni, former Archivist of Yale-New Haven Hospital, and highlights the wealth of material available for historical research in these three collections. Gillian Goldsmith Mayman, Toby Appel, Mona Florea, and Allison Carboni prepared the Web adaptation.

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