Name of repository/collection:

Center for the History of Medicine
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Address:

10 Shattuck Street
Boston, MA 02115

Contact:

Jack Eckert
Public Services Librarian
Kathryn Hammond Baker
Deputy Director

Telephone:

617-432-6207
617-432-6205

Fax:

617-432-3747

Email:

jeckert@hms.harvard.edu
kbaker@hms.harvard.edu

Repository website URL:

http://www.countway.harvard.edu/chom

Description of repository / collection image holdings:

The Center's image holdings include an estimated 20,000 photographs, lantern slides, glass plate negatives, engravings, and prints of physicians and scientists; 3,200 glass lantern slides depicting medical  conditions, diseases, specimens, and instruments, hospitals, and wards; scrapbooks and photographs of 800 hospitals and medical institutions, including Harvard’s affiliated hospitals; ca. 100 panorama and over-sized mounted photographs of professional associations and student groups; and a variety of images of students, faculty members, and patients, as well as personal photographs in manuscript collections. Descriptions of series of historical images of Harvard faculty, students, staff, interiors, buildings, and campuses can be found in Hollis and in OASIS; more than 1,200 digitized images are embedded in OASIS finding aids.

What we have in VIA:

Countway holdings cataloged in VIA include historical images of the Harvard Medical School campuses and buildings, faculty, and students; images from the Richard Pearson Strong collection, taken in 1911 of the response to the plague outbreak in Manchuria, and eighteenth and nineteenth century satirical prints of medical subjects.

Copyright and Permissions:

The material in this collection is owned or held by the Center for the History of Medicine. Some of the images, text and other content in VIA (collectively, the "Content") is protected by copyright law. In some cases, the copyright is owned by other parties, and Harvard is making the Content available to you under license or under the fair use doctrine.

The Content is provided for your personal, noncommercial teaching and research use. You may not copy, publish, post, distribute, display, perform, or otherwise make available any of the Content protected by copyright, except as may be permitted under fair use or another copyright law exemption. If you wish to make any such use of the Content, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder, which may be Harvard or another party. Please contact the Public Services Librarian, Jack Eckert.

Some of the Content may be subject to other restrictions - for example, those imposed by a license agreement. You must comply with any other restrictions and terms of use that are identified in connection with particular Content.

In accessing VIA, you agree to use the Content only in accordance with copyright law and any other identified restrictions, and you assume all liability for any copyright infringement caused by your use. Some information on copyright law and fair use for members of the Harvard community can be found at:
http://ogc.harvard.edu/copyright_docs/copyright_and_fair_use.php