"A Board of Health Doctor in a New York Tenement"

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Description

Title
"A Board of Health Doctor in a New York Tenement"
Creator
From the Collection: Hansen, Bert, 1944-
Contributor
From the Collection: Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896
From the Collection: Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913
From the Collection: Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894
From the Collection: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
From the Collection: Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937
From the Collection: Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931
From the Collection: Wales, James Albert, 1852-1886
From the Collection: Zimmerman, Eugene, 1862-1935
Published / Created
1889 August 10
Description
Harper's Weekly (33:1703), page 637, cover. By W. A. Rogers. Although this is a "tenement" there is an orientalist print (=Sephardic?) on the wall above a fireplace mantle; also note the doctor is taking pulse from wrist, without using a watch, while listening directly to the chest (heart or lungs?) without a stethoscope of any kind. No medical accoutrements other than the doctor's bag are seen. On page 651 (not included), the cover picture is mentioned: "The picture which appears on another page is an accurate representation of what was seen on a recent trip made in company with Dr. Davies Coxe, of the Summer Corps of the Board of Health." The "summer corps" is discussed in an editorial in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (54:1401), July 29, 1882, page 354 without illustrations. Hansen database #1540.
Provenance
Gift of Bert Hansen in multiple accessions between 2015 and 2017.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Item Location

Repository
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number
Ms Coll 67
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Container / Volume
Box 5, folder 15

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Citation
Bert Hansen Collection of Medicine and Public Health in Popular Graphic Art. Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
14740826
Object ID (OID)
32331116

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