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Archives & Personal Papers Collections

Digitized personal papers and organizational records documenting predominantly American medical practitioners, biomedical science, public health, and allied sciences from about 1850 to the present. Read more »

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)

Access over 70,000 images in NLM collections from the 15th to 21st century. Read more »

Health Policy and Services Research

Read significant, specially-selected health services research grey literature content. Read more »

World War 1, 1914-1918

Explore publications ranging from unit histories to published personal narratives, accounts of relief work, and more. Read more »

World War 2, 1939-1949

Explore U.S. federal, state, and local government documents such as reports, first aid manuals, and pamphlets. Read more »

NLM Publications and Productions

View an archive of documents and videos created by NLM such as technical notes, bibliographies, reports, and lectures. Read more »

Tropical Disease Motion Pictures

View and listen to films, video recordings, and digital videocasts produced from the 1920s through 2009. Read more »

Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920

Examine NLM historical books and journals published in the Americas that document the evolution of medicine. Read more »

Unique English Imprints, pre-1800

Access the rarest digitized books, nearly 300 printed in the English-speaking world from 1552 to 1800 and uniquely held here. Read more »

Incunabula

Examine books and broadsides from the infancy of the age of printing from the mid-1460s to 1520. Read more »

The Public Health Film Goes To War

Explore a curated collection of eighteen rare and wonderful World War II-era health films. Read more »

NIH Annual Reports

Read print annual reports issued by NIH Institutes and Centers from 1958 to 1993. Read more »

Cholera Online, 1817 to 1923

View 518 digitized English language monographs from 1817 to 1923 dealing with the cholera pandemics of that period. Read more »

NLM Technical Bulletin, 1969-1997

The NLM Technical Bulletin, distributed by the National Library of Medicine, has announced news and information, notices for NLM events, and updates to NLM products and services since 1969. This collection is the archive of printed issues (no. 1-299) and related indexes produced from 1969 to 1997. Read more »