Finding Medical & Health Films/Images: History of Health Sciences
Open Access and Subscribed Medical Media & Images and Copyright Information
Created by Health Science Librarians
History of Medicine in UNC Digital Collections
HSL Print Historical Collection
Find more images in the Health Sciences Library's Historical Collections, or at Wilson Library.
Historical Image Collections
- AIDS Posters (UCLA Digital Library)625 posters from 44 countries, all used in AIDS education
- Duke University Historical Images in MedicineOver 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences.
- Emilio Segrè Visual ArchivesMore than 30,000 historical images of scientists and their work, from the American Institute of Physics; high quality print and digital reproductions are available for purchase while stock thumbnail images are free to download for educational, non-commercial uses
- Image Archive on the American Eugenics MovementFrom the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, thousands of images of all sorts of materials from the Eugenics movement
- Images From the History of the Public Health ServiceA Photographic Exhibit by Ramunas Kondratas, Ph.D., hosted by the National Library of Medicine
- MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical IllustrationsHundreds of images from the MacKinney Slide Collection, donated to UNC and now held by the National Library of Medicine.
- National Library of Medicine: Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)Database of over 70,000 digitized images of the approximate 100,000 items from the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Prints and Photographs collection; includes portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine dated from the 15th to 21st century.
- Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900Collection of primary source documents from advertising and other popular press images demonstrating the history of popular remedies and treatments in nineteenth century America; including contemporary trends such as phrenology, herbal medicines, hydrotherapy, other folk medicines, early dentistry, pharmaceutical production and drug sales materials, and more. Images and research drawn from the collections at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Wellcome Images - 2000 Years of Human CultureIncludes a biomedical collection with more than 40,000 images, covering topics such as disease, surgery and general healthcare and sciences.
History of Anatomy
- Anatomia 1522 to 1867Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto
- Anatomy of the Human Body. 1918.The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.
- Historical Anatomies on the WebSelected images from important anatomical atlases in the National Library of Medicine's collection.
History of Medicine and Advertising
- Medicine and Madison AvenueFrom Duke University, hundreds of images from medical advertising between 1910 through the 1950's
- Patent Medicine Trade Cards Collection (UCLA Digital Collections)From UCLA, a collection of small, colorfully illustrated advertising cards touting a particular medicine and its many cures
- Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900Collection of primary source documents from advertising and other popular press images demonstrating the history of popular remedies and treatments in nineteenth century America; including contemporary trends such as phrenology, herbal medicines, hydrotherapy, other folk medicines, early dentistry, pharmaceutical production and drug sales materials, and more. Images and research drawn from the collections at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade CardsFrom the New York Academy of Medicine, pharmaceutical trade cards produced in the US and France between 1875 and 1895
Historical Exhibitions
Use these to find Photographic Exhibitions. Many more are available online.
- Library & Archive Exhibitions on the WebOn the Smithsonian Institution Libraries web site, over 3000 links to online exhibitions from libraries, archives, and museums around the world
- National Library of Medicine:Online Exhibitions & Digital ProjectsMany exhibits from the National Library of Medicine - ranging from Chinese Anti-Malarial Posters to Frankenstein
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