UAB HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
Mike Strawn, UAB Photography &
Instructional Graphics
The wide variety of materials housed within UAB Historical Collections is represented in the image above. The materials are left to right:
(foreground)
1) Louis J. Willie to Dr. Joseph F. Volker, Congratulatory letter on Volker's
appointment as the first President of the University of Alabama in Birmingham,
1969, UAB Archives;
2) Iofull newes out of the new-found vvorlde...., Nicholas Monardes,
London, printed by E. Allde, by the assigne of Bonhom Norton, 1596, Reynolds
Historical Library;
3) Blood Cupping Pump [instrument], George Tiemann & Co., c. 1880, Alabama
Museum of the Health Sciences;
4) Mortar and Pestle, n.d., Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences;
5) "Chips and Chaps," by The Happy Four [scrapbook], 1903, UAB
Archives;
(background)
6) Human Skull used by Alabama dentist J. L. Key, Alabama Museum of the
Health Sciences;
7) Photograph of a Man, Moukdon, China, c. 1910, UAB Archives;
8) Rare Books including Traites des sens, C.N. Le Cat, Amsterdam, 1744;
and Prognosticacion drawen out of the bookes of Ipoctas, Auicen, and other
notable auctours of physycke...., Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, [1530?], Reynolds
Historical Library;
9) Medicine Bottles used at the Medical College of Alabama, bottled by Eli
Lilly & Co, Indianapolis; T. Engebach, New Orleans; and Rousseau Freres,
Paris, late 1800s, Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences;
10) Alabama State Nurses Association, [convention program], Selma, 1925, UAB
Archives;
11) Home Health Nursing Bag used by students in Community Health Nursing Course,
c. 1960, Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences;
12) Photograph of Dr. Oscar Teague and colleagues, China, 1911, UAB Archives.
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