The facade of a library building, flanked by a leafy, ribboned motif. At the top are two open books on shields, "Medicine" to the left, and "Surgery" to the right. At the lower right to the building image is an insignia with phrase Quaecumque Sunt Vera, 1851.
Subject (Name):
Archibald Church Library Northwestern Medical School
Subject (Topic):
Books, Buildings, Medical colleges, Medical libraries, Northwestern University, Physicians, and Shield
A seated donkey wearing academic regalia reading a book. Several other books surround it, as well as a crest. Trees can be seen through a window on the right-hand side of the image.
A large tree can be seen behind a stone wall that stands along a path. The tree is half flowering, half dead. In the forefront are two children—a boy who stands upon the wall reaching at the branches; and a girl who sits upon the wall, reading a book. In the upper right-hand corner, behind the initials of the plate's owner, is part of a building, namely a roof and a steeple.
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Edith Banfield, 1895-1977
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Nautilus, Physicians, Shield, and Woman
A shield with an argent field featuring several ermines and divided by a bend vert with three fleurs-de-lis. In the right party per bend are two heads of griffin; in the left part is just one head of griffin. At the helm is a knight's helmet backed by elaborate mantling that engulfs the entire shield. At the crest, atop a torse, is a buck passant with a smaller shield gules with eight sable squares. A decorative border of berries and leaves surrounds the plate.
Subject (Name):
Conant, William M. and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Heraldic bookplates, Physicians, and Shield
A woman and a bearded man attending a sick patient. On each side of the image is a caduceus. The insignias for McGill University, the University of Pennsylvania, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins are seen in the four corners. At the bottom reads Purchased through the William Osler Testimonial Fund for the Advancement of Medicine.
Subject (Name):
Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Caduceus, Libraries, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, Medical colleges, Physicians, Shield, Snakes, Storks, Sun, and Surgeons
Printed in red ink is a coat of arms with a flory-styled cross beneath a chief with three buckles upon it. At the helm is a knight's helmet surrounded by mantling. Beneath the mantling, to the left, is a medal of honor. At the crest is a large dog's head.
At the top center is a caduceus, with a pair of cherubs from the upper corners of the plate blowing at the clouds below. Beneath is a scene with mountains and a body of water in the center. In the foreground is a locomotive is pulling a rail car. Below this can be seen a shelf with books and a pair of wings in the center.
Subject (Name):
Ordway, William Herbert, Jr., 1889-
Subject (Topic):
Books, Caduceus, Mountains, Nature, Physicians, Shield, Snakes, Train, Trains, and Yale Medical Library