Collections

Albert Leffingwell Collection

Papers of Dr. Albert Leffingwell, including diaries, letters, and manuscripts from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was the first woman in the world to graduate from medical school and become a physician. The collection includes images of Dr. Blackwell and her writings dating to the late 19th century

Jackson Health Resort Collection

The  Jackson Health Resort was a renowned health treatment facility in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection contains photographs and documents relating to the facility and its treatments.

Cathedral radio

Selected objects from miSci’s collection of 15,000 science and technology artifacts.

Willard Asylum Scrapbooks

Two scrapbooks compiled by Anne Maycock Hopkins, wife of Dr. Horace G. Hopkins, physician at former Willard Asylum and Willard State Hospital from 1874-1894.

William N. Weeden Color Printing Manuscript 1886

The William N. Weeden Color Printing Manuscript is an inventor's hand-written account in 1886 of his discovery of a printing method that produced multi-color printing with one impression. The collection includes color prints generated by the process.