Manuscripts

Medicine and health on stamps

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Description: Collection of 20 loose pages (intended for a 3-ring binder) with mounted stamps and covers, with medicine and health related images and themes. Each page has a typescript descriptive note/key. Each printed mounting sheet reads "Medicine and health on stamps" with images of a nurse and doctors. Collection includes both international and American stamps. Also includes a stamp album of the Chicago Heart Association, "the history of medicine", accompanied by an envelope of loose stamps.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1964.
Call number: mssHM 82468
Creator: Los Angeles County Medical Association(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: On long-term loan from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.
Dimensions: 28 cm

Institute of the History of Medicine-Los Angeles County Health Department

Rare Books

This collection contains approximately 870 publications and printed items, produced by various organizations, related to hospitals, medicine, medical education, and public health, chiefly in Southern California in the 20th century. The materials were compiled as part of the library of the Los Angeles County Medical Association Collection, a professional institution designed to regulate and encourage the development of the medicine in Los Angeles. The bulk of the collection consists of programs for meetings, conventions, and congresses; annual reports for medical societies, hospitals, and medical schools; and doctor, staff, and medical student directories. In addition, there are reprints of speeches and addresses; yearbooks for medical schools; commemorative, biographical, and historical publications; some original historical documents; by-laws and founding documents; and some planning and administrative documents. The materials include items produced by nearly 200 different authors, though many organizations are represented by only a few items. There are over 140 items published by or about the Los Angeles County Medical Association. The collection also contains seven boxes of catalog cards created by the Los Angeles County Medical Association describing the materials in the collection.

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