New Exhibit Shows You All The Ways NYC Was And Is Covered In Germs
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Typist wearing mask, New York City, October 16, 1918. (Courtesy of The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
Laboratory mouse infected with mites, 1946. (Courtesy of NIH Stetten Museum of Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, 1546-Ph)
New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College Association Buildings, n.d. (Courtesy of The New York Academy of Medicine Library)
"Untitled [Stereoscopic image of an eye Inspection at Ellis Island]," c. 1913. (Courtesy of The New York Academy of Medicine Library)
Fleming penicillin medallion, presented to Ruth Draper at St. Mary's Hospital in London on November 28, 1946. (Courtesy of The New York Academy of Medicine Library)
D. Appleton and Company, Sanitary and Social Chart of the Fourth Ward of the City of New York to Accompany the report of the 4th Sanitary Inspection District Made to the Council of Hygiene of the Citizens' Association…, c. 1865. (Museum of the City of New York, Gift of the University of Western Ontario, 37.152.8)
Microscopic image of the rickettsialpox organism, c. 1946-50. (Courtesy of NIH Stetten Museum of Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, 1553-Ph B)
New York City Health Department diphtheria pamphlet (Spanish), early 20th Century. (Courtesy of The New York Academy of Medicine Library)
Blood Mirror by Jordan Eagles, 2015-present. (Photo by Leo Herrera)
"At The Gates: Our safety depends upon official vigilance," Harper's Weekly, September 5, 1885. (Courtesy of U.S. National Library of Medicine, 101435663)
Smallpox quarantine poster, early 20th Century. (Courtesy of Lyman Maynard Stowe Library, UConn Health)
Microscopic view of the mouse mite, c. 1946-50. (Courtesy of NIH Stetten Museum of Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, 1545-Ph)
Covered ewer presented to Dr. N. Edson Sheldon by the Board of Health of New York City for professional services gratuitously rendered to the poor of the Second Ward during the prevalence of the Cholera A.D. 1832. (Silver, made by Joseph Moseley and William Gale Museum of the City of New York, 74.155)