Catalog cards describing lantern slides in the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene collection
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content: A group of catalog cards describing lantern slides in the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene collection. The catalog cards contain handwritten descriptions of individual lantern slides and if series of slides. The type of information on each card varies, but includes notes regarding what the slide depicts, publication information for the image, and researcher names (especially for slides depicting microscopic images). Many of the cards have handwritten numbers on them which might correspond to number labels on lantern slides from the collection. at least one card has a photographic print of the corresponding slide attached to it. Several tabbed divider cards note filing sections: Lantern slides; Streptothrix; Corneal Experiments in Rabbits; Syphilis; and alphabetical organization cards.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.3042.690
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content: 2018.3042
label: catalog number
content: 2018.3042.690
objectType: label: Object Name
content: identification cards, lantern slides
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, stacked, as stored: 2 in x 5 in x 3 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 12.7 cm x 8.89 cm