Every February since 2016, the New York Academy of Medicine has been running #ColorOurCollections, a fun little exercise where institutions around the world contribute coloring pages made from items in their collections.
You can see all the coloring books submitted here and you can find our book there or you can grab it right here!
–on Instagram! We’re doing a soft open to give ourselves time to get used to the new platform and look around ourselves a bit, but we’d love to see you over there. Do you know cool accounts we should be following? Let us know!
The “horoscope of a male child,” from Medical astrology by Heinrich Däath, published in 1907.
From Montague Summers’s 1928 The discovery of witches: a study of Master Matthew Hopkins, commonly call’d Witch finder generall.
We decided last fall we wanted to try out Instagram; we’ve been inspired by some great accounts like the Public Domain Review and Harvard’s Center for the History of Medicine.
We’ll do a post once we’re ready to start putting up content regularly but for now you can get ahead of the rush and follow us early. And let us know if there are great accounts out there we should be following!
The Vaccine Watchman from W D Stokes and his Herbal Dispensary in Tunbridge Wells in 1888.
A copy of an autograph Joseph Addison letter, listed for sale in the Maggs Brother’s catalog of 1931:
Wondering what to do with your holiday time this year? Wonder no more!
All right, yes, it is for the summer and it is from 1908 but some of it probably still applies!
From a late nineteenth century catalog offering “articles à l’usage spécial des pharmaciens”:
Tobacco advertisers have a reputation of being some of the canniest around, including tweaking the music of their jingles to remain recognizable but just different enough to be usable in any setting. Check out this compilation of Viceroy commercials from the early ’60s to see examples!
