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- Title
- Apicius [De re culinaria Libri I-IX]
- Description
- This manuscript contains 500 Greek and Roman recipes from the fourth and fifth century, both culinary and medical, reflecting the polyglot culture of the Mediterranean basin. Sometimes referred to as the oldest extant cookbook in the West, the manuscript is divided into ten books. It is likely that the Apicius began as a Greek collection, mainly written in Latin, and adapted for a Roman palate. The collection is likely compiled from many sources, as no evidence exists that Apicius (a Roman gourmet in 1st century AD), authored a book of cookery. Our manuscript was penned in several hands in a mix of Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian scripts at the monastery at Fulda (Germany) around 830 AD. It is one of two manuscripts (the other at the Vatican) presumed to have been copied from a now lost common source. The Apicius manuscript is the gem of the Academy’s Margaret Barclay Wilson Collection of cookery, acquired in 1929.
- Subjects (LC)
- Cookbooks, Cooking, Latin peoples, Cooking, Mediterranean, Cooking, Roman, Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medicine
- Title
- Army Laboratory, U.S.A. Debarkation Hospital No. 3
- Description
- Black-and-white postcard showing a laboratory at Debarkation Hospital No. 3 in Manhattan. Male and female staff work beneath a window while a uniformed man watches. Two uniformed men can be seen in the background. | Card not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, Debarkation Hospital No. 3 (New York, N.Y.), Military hospitals, World War, 1914-1918, United States -- Army, Soldiers, Men, Women, People, Windows, Laboratories
- ID
- nycm_168
- Geographic Subject
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Cures Coughs Colds &c: Penn's Treaty
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Cherry Pectoral featuring an image of a meeting between seven colonists (William Penn and others) and seven Native Americans. The Native Americans sit and stand to the left, and the colonists on the right present two scrolls that read "Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and Cures Colds, Coughs, &c." William Penn is holding a medicine bottle. The image is loosely based on Benjamin West's oil painting "The Treaty of Penn with the Indians." The back has an image of hands pouring medicine into a spoon in the upper left and text listing the curative properties of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Catarrh, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Influenza, Laryngitis, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Ethnic Costume, Hats, Indians Of North America, Indigenous Peoples, Men, Treaties
- ID
- WH117
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital
- Description
- Color postcard showing a stylized view of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital. People are grouped in front of the building; a few cars can be seen as well. The image is set on a background of a pink-and-blue-tinged sky. "The Season's greetings" and a bough of holly are on the right-hand side. Printed underneath the hospital name: "T. O. WOOLEY, M.D., House Surgeon." | Card not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- Kings County, Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital, People, Sky, Clouds, Automobiles, Pedestrians, Christmas, Holidays, Hollies, Wooley, T. O.
- ID
- nycbk_010
- Geographic Subject
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- City Hospital
- Description
- Color postcard with view of City Hospital on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island). Brick and stone buildings and a grassy lawn are visible; a white flag with a cross is raised on top of the main entrance. Two men sit in front of a stone building on the right-hand side. | Postcard sent with two-cent George Washington stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Bee to Mrs. M. L. Casselbury about Grandma French's death and the upcoming funeral and burial.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, City Hospital (New York, N.Y.), Charity Hospital (New York, N.Y.), Prison hospitals, Public hospitals, Lawns, Flags, Men, People, Crosses, Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.), Blackwell's Island (New York, N.Y.)
- ID
- nycm_054
- Geographic Subject
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
- Description
- Black-and-white postcard with view of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan from behind an iron fence; pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. A brick wall is visible across the street. Printed on front at bottom: Photo by W. A. Howe. | Card addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kercher of Kalamazoo, Mich., but not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Trees, Streets, Automobiles, Fences, Pedestrians, People, Brick walls, Howe, W. A.
- ID
- nycm_084
- Geographic Subject
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Columbia University 1907
- Description
- Black-and-white postcard with view of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Vanderbilt Clinic, Sloane Maternity Hospital, Main Building, and Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. A streetcar and pedestrians are visible at an intersection. The buildings are labeled at the bottom of the image in white lettering. | Card not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, Vanderbilt Clinic (New York, N.Y.), Columbia University -- College of Physicians and Surgeons, Sloane Hospital for Women (New York, N.Y.), Roosevelt Hospital (New York, N.Y.), People, Pedestrians, Streets, Cable cars (Streetcars)
- ID
- nycm_059
- Geographic Subject
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
- Description
- Color postcard with an image of the street corner in front of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. Cars are parked in front of and alongside the hospital; a few kiosks and pedestrians are seen on the sidewalk. | Printed at bottom right of front: "c. by Irving Underhill." Caption listing hospital divisions at top of back.| Card not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Streets, Automobiles, Pedestrians, People, Underhill, Irving, -1960
- ID
- nycm_090
- Geographic Subject
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Doctors Hospital
- Description
- Black-and-white postcard with view of Doctors Hospital in Manhattan from across a wide lawn edged by trees. People sitting on benches are visible at the edge of the lawn. Printed on divider on back: Photograph by Hugh M. Miller Jr. | Postcard sent with three-cent Thomas Jefferson stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Rheba to Mrs. Eduardo Hurtado in Metuchen, N.J., letting her know that Mildred is not well.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, Hospital buildings, Doctors Hospital (New York, N.Y.), Beth Israel Medical Center (New York, N.Y.), Trees, Grass, Lawns, Benches, People, Carl Schurz Park (New York, N.Y.), Miller, Hugh M., Jr., Hospitals
- ID
- nycm_222
- Geographic Subject
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Dr. Campbell's Hospital
- Description
- Color postcard showing Dr. Campbell's Hospital (later Trinity Hospital) in Brooklyn. The hospital is a white wooden building with an American flag atop a cupola; two men walk down the sidewalk in front. The building is encircled by a metal fence and a few trees are seen on the sidewalk. | Postcard sent with one-cent George Washington stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Hattie to Mrs. J. C. Armstrong of Paulding, Ohio. Hattie writes that the paralysis is not so bad and that there have been 33 deaths on their street. [Considering the date of the postcard, she is presumably referring to the polio epidemic of 1916.]
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Kings County, Dr. Campbell's Hospital, Trinity Hospital (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.), Poliomyelitis -- New York (State) -- New York, Men, Pedestrians, People, Housing, Single family, Dwellings, Trees, Flags -- United States, Campbell, William Francis, 1865-1926
- ID
- nycbk_041
- Geographic Subject
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Gouverneur Hospital
- Description
- Black-and-white postcard with view of Gouverneur Hospital's four-story building in Manhattan with its striped awnings over the windows; people and cars are seen in the foreground, part of the street is visible. | Card not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, Gouverneur Hospital, Automobiles, People, Pedestrians, Awnings, Streets
- ID
- nycm_247
- Geographic Subject
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Harlem Hospital
- Description
- Color postcard with elevated corner view of Harlem Hospital's brick building in Manhattan with fenced-in grounds in front; trees line the sidewalk in front, and lampposts edge the sidewalk on the side. Groups of people are visible near the right corner of the building. Neighboring apartment buildings are also visible down the side streets. | Card not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, Harlem Hospital (New York, N.Y.), Harlem Hospital Center (New York, N.Y.), Trees, Lawns, Sidewalks, People, Pedestrians, Lampposts, Apartment houses, Automobiles, Dwellings
- ID
- nycm_256
- Geographic Subject
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Historae Rerum Naturalium, Liber Sextus, Qui agit Quadrupedibus, & Serpentibus
- Description
- The Dutch West India Company occupied northeastern Brazil from 1624 to 1654. In 1638, the physician Willem Piso and astronomer Georg Markgraf arrived as part of Johann Maurits’s research staff, tasked with promoting scientific studies in Brazil. This section of the Historia naturalis Brasiliae was written by Piso's colleague, the astronomer Georg Markgraf. Markgraf wrote the last eight sections of the Historia naturalis Brasiliae, of which this is the sixth. These sections as a whole were devoted to the medical uses of plants; to fish, birds, insects, quadrupeds and reptiles; and to full descriptions of geographic regions and their inhabitants. Markgraf also describes the appearance, habits, and environment of each animal depicted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Botanical illustration, Early works to 1800, Indians of Central America, Indigenous crops, Indigenous peoples—Ecology, Natural history—Brazil, Natural history illustration, Medical geography, Medicine, Zoological illustration, Zoology—Brazil, Zoology—Pre-Linnean works, Wood-engraving
- Title
- Jamaica Hospital
- Description
- Black-and-white postcard with image of Jamaica Hospital's wooden building from across a Queens street. There is snow on the ground and a woman stands in front of the building; a horse and carriage are partially visible on the left-hand side. | Postcard sent with one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Carrie to Mrs. Ada F. Smith of Freeport, Long Island, telling her she has arrived at home.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Queens County, Jamaica Hospital (Jamaica, New York, N.Y.), Porches, Snow, People, Pedestrians, Trees
- ID
- nycq_021
- Geographic Subject
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Jewish Hospital
- Description
- Color postcard showing view of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn from across the street. A low fence and hedge encircle the building. Parked cars and a few pedestrians can be seen on the street, as well as buildings in the surrounding neighborhood. | Card not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Kings County, Jewish Hospital and Medical Center of Brooklyn, Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, Jewish hospitals, Automobiles, Streets, Street lighting, Pedestrians, People
- ID
- nycbk_052
- Geographic Subject
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Long Island College Hospital
- Description
- Black-and-white postcard with view of Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn. The hospital has a low stone wall and a metal fence encircling it. A man stands by a parked car to the left of the building's entrance; a mailbox and a utility pole are on the corner of the sidewalk. Message space to the right and above image. | Postcard sent with one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp. | Handwritten message on front from Neto to her sister, Mrs. Ed Cole, informing her that Uncle Judd is dead and the funeral is Sunday; she hopes her sister can get there in time.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Kings County, Long Island College Hospital, Men, People, Trees, Automobiles, Columns, Mailboxes, Stone walls, Fences, Electric lines -- Poles and towers
- ID
- nycbk_077
- Geographic Subject
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Long Island State Hospital
- Description
- Color postcard showing Long Island State Hospital in Brooklyn. The hospital is a red brick building with stone columns and steps and a wide lawn in front; an American flag can be seen on the rooftop. A person stands just to the left of the building steps.| Handwritten message on back to Etta discussing the exchange of Christmas cards; writer also mentions that Guy is slowly getting better. | Card not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Kings County, Long Island State Hospital, Brooklyn State Hospital, Public hospitals, State hospitals, Psychiatric hospitals, Flags -- United States, People, Lawns, Columns, Psychiatric hospital care
- ID
- nycbk_090
- Geographic Subject
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Main Gate, U.S.A. General Hospital No. 1
- Description
- Black-and-white postcard of General Hospital No. 1 in the Bronx. Soldiers and women congregate outside a group of wooden buildings and a main gate, behind which some trees are visible. A soldier with a cocked hat stands in the center; a mailbox is on the left-hand side. | Card not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- Bronx County, Military hospitals, United States -- Army -- General Hospital No. 1, Soldiers, Uniforms, Men, Women, People, Gates, Gatehouses, Trees, Mailboxes, Shrubs, United States -- Army, World War, 1914-1918
- ID
- nycbx_073
- Geographic Subject
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center [from back]
- Description
- Color postcard showing main entrance of Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in the Bronx. The entrance has a metal gate and a few trees on the right side; by the entrance there is a group of people; an American flag on a flagpole is visible above the entrance. In the background a larger multistory brick building can be seen. | Card not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- Bronx County, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Jewish hospitals, Driveways, People, Pedestrians, Trees, Shrubs, Flags -- United States, Flagpoles, Gates
- ID
- nycbx_048
- Geographic Subject
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- N.Y. Hospital
- Description
- Black-and-white postcard showing a side view of New York Hospital, the neighboring buildings, and the Manhattan street in front. Horse-drawn carriages and people on the sidewalks are visible. | Card not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, New York Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Horses, People, Pedestrians, Carriages and carts, Horse-drawn vehicles, Streets
- ID
- nycm_315
- Geographic Subject
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)