The historical collections of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) support research accross a wide variety of topics. Explore scholarship by NLM staff, historians, curators, volunteers, students, and NLM staff in the resources below.
The FDA Notices of Judgment Collection is a digital archive of the published notices judgment for products seized under authority of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.
The Henkel Family Correspondence collection consists of 828 letters and is largely the product of Caspar C. Henkel’s life. This digital edition is divided into 3 blog posts for ease of navigation and contextual narrative.
In September 1970, the newsletter for the community of the National Institutes of Health, the NIH Record, published a review of The Darkening Day, an exhibition produced by the National Library of Medicine. The show drew from popular media accounts of the contemporary environmental crisis.
Telford H. Work is one of America’s premier virologists. Work’s collection of 83 films documenting his life’s work and travels is preserved in the National Library of Medicine collections, along with Work’s manuscript collection, which covers his education, career, hobbies, and achievements
A curated collection of eighteen rare and wonderful World War II-era health films.
The archive of public health posters about AIDS at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is rooted in the cultural output of artists, activists, and community workers.
As one of the most populous countries in the world, China saw the need to have a strong family planning policy. The country launched three family planning campaigns.
In an era of devastating epidemic and endemic infectious disease, health professionals began to organize coordinated campaigns that sought to mobilize public action through eye-catching wall posters, illustrated pamphlets, motion pictures, and glass slide projections.
The postcard is a fleeting and widespread art form influenced by popular ideas about social and cultural life in addition to fashions in visual style. Nurses and nursing have been the frequent subjects of postcards...
Posters flourished as an art form in Europe and the United States in the late-nineteenth century as advances in printing technologies allowed for mass circulation. In the 1860s, French artists ushered in a new age for the illustrated poster.
Many foundations of modern Western medicine lie in Classical Greece, from about 800 BCE to about 200 CE.
Drawn mainly from the collections of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination of some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present.
By the late 18th century, the first two had largely withdrawn and physicians, social activists, and the state took responsibility for the care and treatment of the mentally ill.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has in its collection over 100 European manuscripts written before 1601.
To celebrate this “pop-up” exhibition, Making the Greatest Medical Library in America recognizes the institution’s long history of collecting, cataloging, and communicating quality medical information to generations of patrons, scholars, students, visitors, and citizens.
Historical Anatomies on the Web is a digital project designed to give Internet users access to high quality images from important anatomical atlases in the Library’s collection.
The horse has been one of the most important animals throughout human history, and healing horses has had an important place in veterinary and medical literature.
Here you can learn about Islamic medicine and science during the Middle Ages and the important role it played in the history of Europe.
The murder pamphlets in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) collections were mostly acquired in the mid- and late 19th century, ranging from cases cataloged under the subject category of "medical jurisprudence" to notorious cases in which doctors were accused of, or were victims of, heinous crimes.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) holds approximately 2,000 volumes of Chinese medical classics and a Chinese public health collection with thousands of items including posters, scrolls, pharmaceutical ads, and puzzles.
Last Reviewed: July 17, 2024
