Description: Posed photograph showing two men in the office of what appears to be a pharmacy. They look together at a page from a prescription pad, and on the shelves behind them are numerous compounds, tinctures, and medicine bottles. A majority of the bottles come from the Columbus Pharmacal Company, while others are produced by Parke E. Davis and Co. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B10A_F591
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Medicine--History; Employees;
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This book is titled Heisters Chirugie (Heisters Surgery). It is dated 1731 and has paper and vellum pages. There is a hand-written inscription on the first page. On the title page is a photograph of D. Laurentii Heisters who wrote the book. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8434_closed
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Medicine--Research
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the old Tuberculosis Hospital in Hamilton County, Ohio. The hospital was built in 1879 on Guerley Farm under the name "Branch Hospital for Contagious Diseases," and was meant specifically for tuberculosis patients. As the disease spread, more buildings were necessary and the complex became the Cincinnati Tubercular Hospital. In 1945, the name was changed again to the Dunham Hospital in honor of Dr. Henry Kennon Dunham, one of the country's leading researchers into the causes and cures of tuberculosis. He served as the hospital's director from 1909 to 1940. Once a cure was discovered in the 1940s, the number of tuberculosis patients decreased dramatically, and the hospital was no longer needed. This building, along with most others on the property, was demolished in 1973 to make way for the Dunham Recreation Complex. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F05_002_1
Subjects: Communicable diseases; Tuberculosis; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Hospitals--History--Ohio; Medicine -- History
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the old Tuberculosis Hospital in Hamilton County, Ohio. The hospital was built in 1879 on Guerley Farm under the name "Branch Hospital for Contagious Diseases," and was meant specifically for tuberculosis patients. As the disease spread, more buildings were necessary and the complex became the Cincinnati Tubercular Hospital. In 1945, the name was changed again to the Dunham Hospital in honor of Dr. Henry Kennon Dunham, one of the country's leading researchers into the causes and cures of tuberculosis. He served as the hospital's director from 1909 to 1940. Once a cure was discovered in the 1940s, the number of tuberculosis patients decreased dramatically, and the hospital was no longer needed. This building, along with most others on the property, was demolished in 1973 to make way for the Dunham Recreation Complex. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F05_003_1
Subjects: Communicable diseases; Tuberculosis; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Hospitals--History--Ohio; Medicine -- History
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of General Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F13_012_1
Subjects: Hospitals -- Ohio; Medical care; Medicine; Ohio History -- State and Local Government -- Health Care
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite portrait of Dr. John G. Rogers, ca. 1860-1864. Dr. Rogers was the physician who assisted at the birth of Civil War general and United State President Ulysses S. Grant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06096
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Medicine--History; Portrait photography--United States--History--19th century
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Dr. Arthur K. Lawrence in the rear room of his three-room office at 681 East Long Street in the Williams Building, Columbus, Ohio. He is surrounded by medical equipment. Arthur Kelton Lawrence (1877-1954) was the son of Thomas Lawrence and Martha Hartway Lawrence. Martha escaped from slavery and was taken in by the Kelton family in Columbus, who also employed Thomas. The two were married in 1864. Lawrence served as a hospital steward in the 9th Battalion of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish American War. After the war, Lawrence became a doctor and established a medical practice in Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1277_781359_114
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Physicians; Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Medicine -- History;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This illustration of the Cincinnati College of Medicine's Museum and Practical Chemical Laboratory appears in the Centennial Issue of the "Cincinnati Journal of Medicine, Centennial Issue," published in 1957. In 1896, the Medical College of Ohio merged with the University of Cincinnati. The Miami Medical College also joined the University of Cincinnati in 1909, creating the Ohio-Miami Medical College of the University of Cincinnati. In 1920, the college changed its name to the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04222
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Medicine--History; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Medical College in Cleveland, from "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1847. The Cleveland Medical College, founded in 1843, eventually became part of what is now Case Western Reserve University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04005
Subjects: Medicine--History; Cultural Ohio--Education; Art, American--Ohio
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dr. Nelson Banks Sisson of Gallia County, Ohio with his third wife, Carrie Weather Holt Sisson, ca. 1890-1899. They were married in 1890. He was an abolitionist, supporter of the Republican Party and the temperance movement, and served as surgeon for the 92nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01056
Subjects: Physicians--Ohio; Other--Family History; Medicine; Civil War
Places: Gallia County (Ohio)
 

Description: The interior of a drug store in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. "Frank Stutz" is written on the arch. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07813
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Stores & shops; Medicine--History;
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: Oil painting showing Dr. William Gleason (sometimes spelled Glysson) at a patient's bedside. Gleason is taking the pulse of the patient, who is shown only as a hand extended through the bedcurtains of a tall-post bed. The doctor sits in a straight-leg, Chippendale-style chair and holds an ivory-handled walking stick in his right hand. An unusual detail is the inclusion of a spur on Gleason's boot, implying that he is on a "house call." Artist Winthrop Chandler created the painting in Woodstock, Connecticut, around 1785, one of a pair of paintings made at that time. The other is a portrait of Mary Kidder Gleason and her daughter Bethia Pitt Putnam Tupper. Winthrop Chandler is thought to be the brother of Mrs. Mary Kidder Gleason, wife of Dr. William Gleason (1750-1793). Chandler's wife was also named Mary Gleason, and was presumably the sister of Dr. William Gleason. Mary Kidder Gleason moved to Ohio in 1800, at which time the portraits were reportedly brought to the Putnam House in Belpre, Ohio, where they hung for many years. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H27065
Subjects: Chandler, Winthrop, 1747-1790; Artists; Medicine--History; Paintings
Places: Connecticut; Belpre (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)