Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
1939
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
The Cushing family coat of arms (with the phrase Virtute et Numine is at the top-left corner of border wrapped in leaves and ribbon, with the initials of family members who have gone on to become doctors, and the dates of their degrees or beginning of practice. At top center is a skull with a snake wrapped around it. At the bottom is a caduceus. Inside the image, at bottom center, is the signature of Harvey Cushing. Beneath the image is the text "Yale Medical Library Bequest of 1939."
Subject (Name):
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Libraries, Nature, Neurosurgeons, Skull, Snakes, and Yale Medical Library
An older man with a beard using a mortar and pestle. Beside him are books, papers, and a jar of poison. To the right of the image is another mortar and pestle and several pieces of laboratory glassware. Behind him is a shelf filled with additional bottles and glassware. Below is the motto Hora Ruit Carpe Diem.
Subject (Name):
Brinn, H. Richard
Subject (Topic):
Apothecaries, Books, Chemical apparatus, and Mortars and Pestles
At the top, a nude man holding a skull in front of shelves of books. Surrounding this are several masques. In the center is the image of a building standing against a cloudy sky. Further below is the bust with nymphs and a globe. In the lover right-hand corner is another nude man with a scroll sitting upon a pile of books.
Subject (Name):
Fishbein, Morris, 1889-1976 and Yale School of Medicine
Looking through a window, there is a sitting woman, holding a branch, with her hand on a book. On the table beneath her is a heart in a glass case, a candle, an hourglass and an open book. Beneath the image is the phrase Forever wilt thou love and she be fair.
Subject (Name):
Shaftel, Norman
Subject (Topic):
Bookplate collectors, Books, Candles, Heart, Medical historians, Physicians, Time, and Woman
A young man blowing on two pipes at once. He sits beneath the silhouette of a tree, amongst flowers, near a path the runs along a dark forest. Below him is written His Own Mark From Kitty Walbridge.
A scene from within a room in which a cherub is sitting on a cloth covered table covered with books, medical equipment, and sheet music. A cello leans against the table. The cherub is facing towards a window behind the table to a scene that consists of a river with boats, a bridge, and a town in the background. In the upper right-hand are two coats of arms, each with elaborate and design. The motto within these crests reads O Bioc Bpaxyc H Ae Texnh Makph. Surrounding the main image is a large urn with several flowers to the left; decoratively twisted ribbons surrounding the top and right-hand sides.
Subject (Name):
Chapman, Paul Morgan
Subject (Topic):
Armorial bookplates, Books, Buildings, Children, Cross, Crown, Nature, Physicians, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Ships, and Windows
A square design with a circle at the center. Within this circle, upon an open book, is an hourglass alongside a skull. The skull sports a jester's cap and a dagger clasped within its jaw. The circle is bordered by a snake, with a bowl at the helm, from which the snake drinks.
Subject (Name):
Helcelet, M.
Subject (Topic):
Apothecaries, Books, Skull, Snakes, Sword, and Time