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Newly Expanded LibGuide: History of Public Health at Harvard

October 4, 2023

Archivist for the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Heather Mumford, has revamped the History of Public Health at Harvard LibGuide to improve the discovery of archival records and manuscript collections.

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Mary Ellen Wohl papers open for research!

June 1, 2023

The Mary Ellen Wohl papers are now open for research!

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Frederick P. Li papers open for research!

May 4, 2023

The Frederick P. Li papers are now open to research!

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Center for the History of Medicine welcomes Rebecca Thayer

April 10, 2023

Rebecca Thayer is the Center's new Processing Archivist.

Headshot of Louis Tompkins Wright from the Louis T. Wright papers, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.

Louis T. Wright papers re-processed and open for research!

February 17, 2023

The Louis T. Wright papers have been reprocessed and are again open for research!

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Respecting the Remains of Those Who Were Enslaved - 2/9 event

February 7, 2023

Countway Library is pleased to share that the Center for the History of Medicine’s Director, Scott Podolsky, and Dominic Hall, Curator of  Warren Anatomical Museum collection, will be speaking as part of the upcoming event, Respecting the Remains of Those Who Were Enslaved: Reflections on the Report of the Harvard Steering Committee on Human Remains in University Museum Collections.

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Intern Marco Lanier Works on Ethical Description at the Center for the History of Medicine

January 13, 2023

Center for the History of Medicine intern processes small collections and applies reparative archival description

First page of De differentijs symptomatum[...], 1528, by Claudii Galeni Pergameni.

New Rare Books Cataloged in the Center for the History of Medicine!

October 21, 2022

The Center for the History of Medicine has cataloged a number of titles, which are newly available in our reading room. Some recent highlights include:

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Samuel A. Levine Photographs Digitized

March 15, 2022

Photographs from Levine's travels, family life, and hospital work are now accessible through the Samuel A. Levine papers finding aid.

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Chester M. Pierce Papers Open to Research!

February 3, 2022

The Chester M. Pierce papers have been processed and are now open to research.

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Samuel A. Levine Papers Open to Research

January 20, 2022

The Samuel A. Levine papers are newly processed and open to research.

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David Dickinson Potter Papers Open to Research

July 19, 2021

Potter papers, 1859-2014 (inclusive), 1958-2014 (bulk) are newly processed and open to research

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