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[Two-page advertisement for collection efforts at the Surgeon General's Library]

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Publication:
Produced: [between 1970 and 1979?]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Advertising as Topic
Libraries, Medical
Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Genre(s):
Photographs
Abstract:
Richard J. Dunglison of Philadelphia assisted John Shaw Billings by placing this two-page advertisement free in Dunglison's Ready Reference List for Physicians (1876). Note that Dr. Billings called the collection the "National Medical Library." Appears in A history of the National Library of Medicine by Dr. Wyndham D. Miles, p.77.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
1 photograph : 21 x 26 cm
Technique:
black and white
NLM Unique ID:
101656747 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A033608
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101656747