by Meg | May 18, 2020 | Architecture, Building, Ephemera
Last week, I posted on the 111th Anniversary of our building and also put it on Facebook. A friend, who is really a historical genius, sent me a link to an old Brickbuilder journal from 1912. Brickbuilder was a journal that covered the building trades, including...
by Meg | Feb 19, 2020 | Ephemera, History of Maryland Med, Physicians
Before the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland was founded in 1799, there was actually a previous medical society, but it didn’t last long. In 1785, Dr. Charles F. Wiesenthal, Dr. Elisha John Hall of Frederick, and other physicians on the Western...
by Meg | Dec 11, 2018 | Ephemera, Ex Libris, On My Desk
One of the most interesting things in our collection is a number of boxes of photographs from “Edinburgh Anatomy” which contain hundreds of slides. In 1905, David Waterston edited “The Edinburgh Stereoscopic Atlas of Anatomy”, which...
by Meg | Oct 12, 2018 | Building, Ephemera, School 49
We have recently held a mini-reunion of alumni of School #49, the old school where MedChi is now located. We acquired the building in the 1970’s, but waited a few years before we renovated it in the mid 1980’s. Once we did, we had a reunion of the School...
by Meg | May 21, 2018 | Ephemera
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might notice a change at the top of the page. We have added some new tabs right under the main picture with some of our more requested topics. They include:The Hunt History of Medicine Lectures, along with...
by Meg | Mar 5, 2018 | Archives, Art, Ephemera, On My Desk
We received a very interesting email about the Lecture notebook from Earle Havens, who is the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Hopkins Sheridan Libraries and Museums. In the email, he writes:This is quite interesting indeed! An interleaved and...
