Apologies for cross-posting
The Otis Historical Archives of the National Museum of Health and
Medicine (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology) has recently digitized
several texts of historical significance, including
* The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, a
six-volume, in-depth study of Civil War wounds and diseases, based on
specimens collected from the battlefield;
* A History of the United States Army Medical Museum, 1862-1917, a
formerly unpublished manuscript;
* A Catalogue of Surgeons' Instruments, Air and Water Beds,
Pillows, and Cushions, Bandages, Trusses, Elastic Stockings, Inhalers,
Galvanic Apparatus, and Other Appliances Used by the Medical Profession
(1866);
* The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World
War, 15 volumes recording "...the permanent written record of the
accomplishments of the Medical Department in [World War I]...;"
* A Medical Survey of the Bituminous-Coal Industry (Report of the
Coal Mines Administration, 1947), well-illustrated with photographs of
life in coal towns; and
* A collection of several medical texts and journals, some
hand-illustrated, from a captured Viet Cong physician.
We hope to have these materials available soon. Most are too large to
provide access through on our website.
We've been mostly digitizing photographs, working with Information
Manufacturing Corporation (IMC), to scan the Medical Illustration
Service (MIS) Library. The MIS Library is one of the NMHM's largest
collections, with 4,500 boxes of medical photographs. The Library was
transferred to the Museum in late 2004, and houses millions of
photographs from World War II through the 1990s representing diseases
and their effects on humans and animals. Included in the collection are
rare illnesses such as smallpox and the Asian flu. Over 191,000 images
have already been scanned and are currently almost completely catalogued
and indexed including the Army Medical Museum collection of pictures of
the Spanish-American War, Museum and Medical Arts Service (MAMAS)
photographs taken by Museum staff during WWII in Europe and Asia, images
from the "Atlas of Tropical and Extraordinary Diseases," historical
portraits, medical pictures dating from US involvement in World War I
through World War II, the Medical Museum's 19th-century logbooks, Korean
War pictures from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR),
AEF autopsy and other photographs from WWI, Anita McGee's pictures of
the Russo-Japanese War, Signal Corps medical images (a subset of those
held by the National Archives), and Vietnam War images (especially of
surgery) from the Swan and Hansen collections while also scanning
inhouse thousands of photographs from the Civil War.
Additionally, Otis Historical Archives has just begun to digitize a
collection of about 8,000 combat casualty cases from the Vietnam War
known as WDMET (Wounds Data Munitions Effectiveness Team), comprised of
approximately 200,000 pages of original documents, 120,000 slides, and
several filing cabinets of bullets and shrapnel, collected from
1967-1969. The project is expected to take somewhat over one year.
We are working on solutions to providing access to these images on the
internet, including a plan to load the Museum's entire catalogue for
onine use. For slightly over a year, we have been uploading selected
images on Flickr, and http://www.boingboing.com recently noted that and
dramatically increased viewership of our photographs. Links to our 3
Flick sites are below as is a link to the museum's website.
Mike Rhode & Kathleen Stocker
Michael Rhode, Archivist
Otis Historical Archives
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Washington, DC 20306-6000
202-782-2212; FAX 202-782-3573
http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum
http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/collections/archives/archives.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99129398@N00 and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7438870@N04/ and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22719239@N04/ - favorite photos from the
Archives staff
Mailing address:
National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP
PO Box 59685
Washington, DC 20012-0685
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