[Memo by John Shaw Billings to restrict access to the collection at the U.S. Army Medical Library] Army Medical Library (U.S.) Correspondence as Topic Libraries, Medical Earlier, patrons had been allowed to browse freely among the books and journals. By 1890, the U.S. Army Medical Library had grown so large and served so many readers that John Shaw Billings was forced to restrict access to the stacks. Appears in A history of the National Library of Medicine by Dr. Wyndham D. Miles, p. 204. Produced: [between 1970 and 1979?] Photograph Still image 1 photograph : 21 x 26 cm black and white nlm:nlmuid-101656819-img 101656819 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101656819 OCLC: 913929872 IHM: A033613 English The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/