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Visual Materials
The William H. Helfand Collection contains more than 7,000 European and American prints and ephemera relating to health professions including medical, dental, and mental wellness. The materials date from the 1490s to the early 21st century and contain many social and political cartoons that satirize health practices and practitioners. Noted illustrators represented include French artists Honore Daumier, Gustave Dore, J. J. Grandville, and Emile Vernier; British caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, and James Gillray; and the American cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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Rare Books
To the haunting notes of a lone bugle playing "The Last Post," the sole remaining Western flag is lowered. With Hong Kong's return to China on June 30, 1997, an era of empire ends, exactly five hundred years after Vasco de Gama first sailed to the Asian mainland. As recently as 1930, half of the world's population was somewhere subject to American, British, French or Dutch colonial rule; two generations later, the West's empires in the East are extinct. In the process, the Orient, once a byword for things sleepy, mysterious and decadent, has become a catchphrase for all things modern and dynamic. What happened? What are the legacies left by five hundred years of colonial presence? For legacies there are - deep ones - and ignoring them is perilous for anyone who hopes to understand modern-day Asia.
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Visual Materials
Image of a starboard view of a British ship under sail at center, the stern of French ship Le Serieuse just visible as she goes down by the bow at left in the aftermath of the Battle of the Nile in 1798 between the British Royal Navy and the French fleet; another French vessel on fire at right.
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A fictitious diary. Previous experiences were narrated under the titles: The diary of a surgeon in the year 1751-1752 and Surgeon's mate; the diary ... during the seven years war, 1756-1762.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera, the majority written by Evelyn Waugh and related to his later works. The manuscripts include Decline and fall, Ninety-Two days, and material related to Basil Seal rides again, A Little learning and The Loved one. The majority of the correspondence is with Chapman and Hall, is business-related and covers the years 1961-1968; other business correspondents include A.D. Peters, Associated Book Publishers Ltd, Methuen & Co., and Penguin. Other correspondents in the collection include: Robert Murray Davis, Anne Adelaide Ford, Hugh Heckstall-Smith, James G. Hepburn, Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, Sir Victor Mallet, Alfred Robert McIntyre, Howard Irwin Ross, Christopher Sykes, Arthur Waugh, Laura Waugh and Joel Wells. The ephemera includes Inter-Office business correspondence, compact disks, clippings, photographs, including an original Carl Van Vechten photograph, printed material and original storage boxes; the oversize folder contains one LP phonograph record.
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Visual Materials
Image of a stern view of the H.M.S. Vanguard as the British Royal Navy bears down on the French fleet at anchor at the start of the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
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