A picture of a man sitting on a shelf with a book under his arm. A phrase creates the border, which reads Pace tua Vique Pictoris Buanorotti o Esai as Sit Hoc Factum. At the bottom: Anno dom MCMXVI.
Subject (Name):
Joslin, Elliott Proctor, 1869-1962 and Yale Medical Library
Subject (Topic):
Books, Medical libraries, Portraits, Snakes, and Yale Medical Library
Becker, Maureen Hussey Yale University. School of Medicine
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A teapot surrounded by flora is at the top of this bookplate. Further below indicates that the books bearing this plate are "from a fund for books in the fields of Medical History and the Neurological Sciences. Established 1960."
Subject (Name):
Becker, Maureen Hussey, 1937-1960 and Yale Medical Library
Subject (Topic):
Medical libraries, Neurology, Text, and Yale Medical Library
At the bottom, there is a space labeled "No." with lines in which to write. The Medical Institution of Yale College transferred its library to the main college library in 1865, where it was kept in a separate collection called the Yale Medical College Library.
Subject (Name):
Yale Medical Library
Subject (Topic):
Medical colleges, Medical libraries, Text, and Yale Medical Library
At center, there is a quill pen and a stack of paper, a drawing with the initials H. C., and an open book showing the text "Meningioma Pituitary". A brain on a staff is on the left hand side of the plate, and a caduceus on the right. Beneath is a space to write the name of the deceased to which the book is in memoriam.
Subject (Name):
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939, Harvey Cushing Society, and Yale Medical Library
Subject (Topic):
Books, Caduceus, Medical colleges, Medical libraries, Pens, and Yale University--Societies, etc.