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Reflex Inverted Gas Light Catalog
- 1890 – 1930
Welsbach aimed its Reflex line at the middle of the gas mantle market, priced below its Welco line but above its biggest selling models like the Number 4 mantle. Images in this catalog illustrate Welsbach's imagined…
- Creator Of Work Welsbach Gas Light Company
- Subject Welsbach Gas Light Company, Incandescent gas-lighting, Incandescent gas-lighting--Fixtures, Rare earth industry, Rare earths, Advertising, Auer v. Welsbach, Carl (Auer von Welsbach), 1858-1929, Gas-lighting, Interior lighting, Interior lighting--Design
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Carl Auer von Welsbach Cigarette Trading Card
- 1890 – 1930
Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929) was a key figure in the history of rare earth elements. In 1885 he showed didymium was not an element, but an alloy of two elements that he named praseodymium and…
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Dyestuffs for Wood Stains
- 1900s
Sample book for dyeing solutions on wood from the Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Contains dyeing instructions and sixty-four mounted wood…
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Louis Pasteur
- Born 1822 Died 1895
- Circa 1913
Photographic reproduction portrait of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), a French microbiologist who investigated the fermentative properties of bacteria, developed the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax, discovered the…
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Dr. [Charles] Chamberland
- Circa 1913
Photographic reproduction portrait of Charles Chamberland (1851-1908), a French microbiologist and colleague of renowned scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). Chamberland and French physician Pierre Paul Émile Roux…
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Dr. [Emile] Roux
- Circa 1913
Photographic reproduction portrait of Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853-1933), a French physician and assistant to renowned scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) from 1878 until 1883. Roux and French microbiologist, Charles…
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Robert Koch
- Born 1843 Died 1910
- Circa 1913
Photographic reproduction portrait of German physician and microbiologist, Robert Koch (1843-1910). Koch is considered one of the founders of modern bacteriology due to his identification of the causative agents of…
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W. M. Haffkine
- Circa 1913
Reproduction of a photographic portrait of Waldemar Mordechai Haffkine (1860-1930), a native Russian bacteriologist who worked at the Pasteur Institute to develop an anti-cholera vaccine. Haffkine is recognized as the…
- Author American Medical Association
- Publisher Burroughs Wellcome and Company
- Subject Vaccination, Burroughs Wellcome and Company, Medicine, Pharmacology, First aid in illness and injury, Exhibitions, Medical supplies, Vaccines, Haffkine, W. M. (Waldemar Mordecai), 1860-1930, Microbiologists, Bacteriology
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Professor [Emil von] Behring
- Circa 1913
Portrait of Emil von Behring (1854-1917), a German physiologist who worked to prove the possibility of transferring immunity against the toxins of tetanus and Diptheria. Behring won the 1901 Nobel Prize for Physiology…
- Author American Medical Association
- Publisher Burroughs Wellcome and Company
- Subject Vaccination, Burroughs Wellcome and Company, Medicine, Pharmacology, First aid in illness and injury, Exhibitions, Medical supplies, Vaccines, Behring, Emil von, 1854-1917, Serotherapy, Tetanus--Vaccination, Nobel Prize winners, Physiologists
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Dr. Thomas Dimsdale
- (Afterwards Baron Dimsdale) Born 1712 Died 1800
- Circa 1913
Portrait of Thomas Dimsdale, a practitioner of medicine recognized as a specialist in inoculation. Dimsdale was summoned by the Empress of Russia, Catherine II, in 1768 to introduce the practice of inoculation in…
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Benjamin Jesty
- From the original oil painting
- Circa 1913
Black and white reproduction of an oil painting portrait of Benjamin Jesty (c. 1736-1816). Jesty, a cattle farmer from Dorset, England, gained notoriety as a key contributor to the linkage of cowpox and smallpox. He was…
- Author American Medical Association
- Publisher Burroughs Wellcome and Company
- After Sharp, Michael William, c. 1776-1840
- Subject Vaccination, Burroughs Wellcome and Company, Medicine, Pharmacology, First aid in illness and injury, Exhibitions, Medical supplies, Vaccines, Jesty, Benjamin, 1736-1816, Vaccinia
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A Religious Dramatic Representation of the Power of the [Hindu] Goddess of Smallpox
- Circa 1913
This illustration is a reproduction of a drawing depicting the Hindu goddess, Śītalā. The illustration accompanies a discussion of the development of smallpox inoculation which emerged from Hindu cultures as early as…
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Vaccination [caricature]
- Circa 1913
Plate from a French caricature by Carlo Gripp (1826-1900) depicting a woman surrounded by a small group dressed in formal attire. The woman lifts her dress to reveal her shin, which she presents to a kneeling doctor who…
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'Tabloid' Medical Equipments at the North Pole
- April 6, 1909 'Tabloid' Medicine Chest supplied to Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary
- Circa 1913
Illustration depicting the medical equipment carried by Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), an explorer of the Arctic. The inset upper left photograph shows one of eight tubes of 'Tabloid' products and the…
- Author American Medical Association
- Publisher Burroughs Wellcome and Company
- Subject Vaccination, Burroughs Wellcome and Company, Medicine, Pharmacology, First aid in illness and injury, Exhibitions, Medical supplies, Vaccines, Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920, Medicine bottles, Medicine bottles, Victorian
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Circa 1913
Illustration depicting a portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762). The portrait accompanies text describing her advocacy for Eastern methods of inoculation. Lady Montagu is credited with the introduction of…
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The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
- Circa 1913
This book on the history of vaccination is associated with the American Medical Association's 1913 Annual Meeting, which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Includes a forward by Henry S. Wellcome announcing the…
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Portrait of Dr. Michael Somogyi (1883-1971)
- 1900 – 1925
Portrait of Dr. Michael Somogyi (1883-1971), a Hungarian American professor of biochemistry at the Washington University and Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, who prepared the first insulin treatment given to a child with…
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Physical Apparatus for Universities and Colleges Manufactured and Imported by Central Scientific Co.
- 1912
A catalog of laboratory instruments for the physical sciences made by the Central Scientific Company. Founded in 1900 in downtown Chicago, Central Scientific manufactured and distributed science teaching equipment for…
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Portrait of Herman Frasch (1851-1914)
- 1910s
Portrait of Herman Frasch (1851-1914), a chemist and engineer best known for his work in the petroleum industry.
Herman Frasch was born on December 25, 1851 in Gaildorf, Germany. Frasch was schooled at the Gymnasium in…
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Portrait of Martin Hill Ittner (1870-1945)
- 1910s
Portrait of American chemist Martin Hill Ittner (1870-1945), one of the first chemists in the United States to develop successful methods for the hydrogenation of fatty oils, which helps turn liquid oils into solids.
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Portrait of Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856-1931)
- 1910s
Portrait of American chemist Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856-1931), inventor of the Acheson process to synthesize graphite and silicon carbide and later a manufacturer of carborundum and graphite.
Edward Goodrich Acheson…
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Tallqvist's Hämoglobin scale
- 1900 – 1920
Developed circa 1900 and often called the Tallquist Method, it is used to compare a patient's blood color to a chart of red colors to diagnose possible anemia. The method is still used when more sophisticated equipment…
- Author Tallqvist, Theodor Waldemar, 1871-1927
- Publisher Sharp & Smith
- Subject Hemoglobin, Diagnosis, Medical care, Blood
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The Glaxo Feeder 8oz nursing bottle in original box
- 1900 – 1930
Banana-shaped bottle design enabled ease of cleaning, making this bottle widely known as the hygienic baby bottle.
A: Boat-shaped molded glass bottle. Embossed on one side of bottle are measurements in tablespoons;…
- Manufacturer Glaxo Laboratories
- Subject Infants--Care, Glassware
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The Alchimist
- Circa 1900 – 1965
Color reproduction of a painting by Wijck from the collections of the Rijksmuseum. The alchemist, seated at his desk before the window, looks down to survey the progress of his assistant. The young boy holds up a basin…
- After Wyck, Thomas, approximately 1616-1677
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art
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Ascent of James Sadler at Oxford
- 1900 – 1950
This 20th-century color lithograph reproduction of an early-19th-century engraving shows a pink and white striped balloon rising above a pastoral landscape. In the balloon basket are two small figures. The campus of…
