[Letterhead used by Billings]

Collection:: Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Publication:: Produced: [between 1970 and 1979?]
Language(s):: English
Format:: Still image
Subject(s):: Correspondence as Topic
Libraries, Medical
Genre(s):: Photographs
Abstract:: Letterhead used by John Shaw Billings in the 1870s showing his intention of developing the collection into a national library. This preceded by eighty years the official designation of the collection as the National Library of Medicine. Appears in A history of the National Library of Medicine by Dr. Wyndham D. Miles, p. 35.
Copyright:: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:: 1 photograph : 26 x 21 cm
Technique:: black and white
NLM Unique ID:: 101656647 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:: A033603
Permanent Link:: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101656647

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