Beneath the title text are lines labeled, in order, "Case", "No.", and "Donor", with space to write. An attached letter states that the library is at the Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio, and formerly at the Medical Department of Willoughby University.
Subject (Name):
Starling Medical College Library
Subject (Topic):
Medical colleges, Medical libraries, Text, and Yale Medical Library
John Crerar Library Chicago Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
1896
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A portrait of John Crerar within a beaded border at center. This is surrounded by leaves and grasses, as well as the phrase Great is the Gift that Bringeth Knowledge. Below the portrait, surrounded by books, is an open book with the quote "'Non est Mortuus qui Scientiam Vivificavit" --Ptolemæus".
Subject (Name):
Crerar, John, 1827-1889 and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Books, History of medicine, John Crerar Library., Medical colleges, Medical libraries, Nature, Portraits, and Scientists
A coat of arms printed in red, with the phrase Mare Ditat. Throughout the bookplate, starting from the top, is handwritten text, in black ink, which reads 9" 26" '64 Cantab. [Thomas Waterman] Jr. Medical Student Harvard College Cambridge, Mass.
Subject (Name):
Waterman, Thomas
Subject (Topic):
Armorial bookplates, Medical colleges, Shield, and Students
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.