Lot 456

Lot of 21 Early Medical Broadsides, Diplomas, Ephemera

Estimate: $150 - $250

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Lot of 21 medical broadsides, diplomas, and ephemera from the 19th – early 20th centuries. Includes mid-19th century broadside for Sebre Gustin, Jr. Surgeon Dentist of Chelsea, VT. Printed at Kimball's Dartmouth Press, Hanover, NH. edges folded to reduce size. H 15-3/4" W 11-3/4". 19th century (Quack Medicine?) National Surgical Institute. 8 pp  Dr. H.R. Allen, Founder and inventor of hundreds of appliances used by it... Tears at creases. Toned. Medical Society of Richmond County (NY) membership form of Dr. Correl L. Humphreys.1893. 18th century English hand-colored copperplate engraving of the Foundling Hospital. Unframed. Sight: H 8-1/2" W 13". 

Large vellum engraved Medical Degree from the University of New Jersey for T.I. Clark, dated 1861. Eleven signatures. H 23-1/2" W 19-3/4". Some staining to right side.   Large mounted paper diploma from New York College of Dentistry to Louis T. Wolfe...DDS...2 June, 1915. Mounted to thin cardboard. Some folds and soiling, age darkened. H 22-1/2" W 17-1/4". 

Five Diplomas for midwifery all made out to Anna Margaret Allen from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and dated April 3, 1925. All approx. 11-1/2" x 18" (some portrait view, some landscape ). Also one Registration Certificate for the same A M Allen issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1931, with attached endorsement, 1938, from SUNY Education Dept.  Poster/Broadside advertising a Lecture by W. E. Burghardt DuBois, editor of The Crisis. ca. 1925. H 18" W 12-1/2". Folds.

Three other Certificate/Diplomas for Jack Froman, MD Commissioner of Correction ) NYC 1939, and Elsae Brody for the University of Bern. Includes some full sized copies. All in good condition.

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03/2024