Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

163 163 c   (MEDICINE.) Group of photographs and records relating to the Danville State Hospital. Approximately 60 items (0.2 linear feet) in one box; various conditions but generally minor wear. Vp, 1903-50 and undated [600/900] Danville State Hospital in central Pennsylvania, previously known as the State Hospital for the Insane, opened its doors in 1872. Its patient population peaked at 2801 in the 1950s, and it remains open today as a long-term psychiatric facility with a much smaller number of inmates.The photographs in this collection include 19 mounted views of the hospital’s staff and grounds, most about 5 x 7 inches and a few smaller, 1903-06 and undated * 5 postcards and an unmounted photograph, undated * a file of records from Thomas Cardioskey, a nursing student at the hospital from 1933 to 1936 * and a mounted photograph of 3 male nurses, one of them presumably Cardioskey. His records as a student include 22 pages of case reports on patients he saw, listing their ailments and time in each bed—though not mentioning any patient names. The patients were treated for a fractured skull, carbon monoxide poisoning, psychoneurosis, Lysol poisoning, paresis (syphilis), gunshot wounds, and alcoholism, along with more benign ailments. 164 c   (MEDICINE.) Moore, Benjamin C. Pair of pharmacist’s prescription books. 576, 577 manuscript pages. Folio, original 1 / 2 calf, worn and partially disbound, with Moore’s printed labels on front boards; intermittent wear and soiling to contents. Champlain, NY, 1884-89 [500/750] Benjamin C. Moore (1835-1906) was a druggist in Champlain, a town in New York’s far northeastern corner, as well as the town’s mayor from 1886 to 1887. These two volumes cover from December 1884 through March 1887, and September 1888 through November 1889, a span of more than 4000 numbered prescriptions. Physicians would apparently come to his shop, write out the prescription, and sign or initial their own names, giving Moore the authority to then fill the prescription. While patient names are not given, these volumes show small-town medical practices of this period. Morphine sulphate can often be seen among the prescriptions (see pages 80, 276 or the rear cover in the second volume, for example). 165 c   (MISSOURI.) Crest for the National Guard Regiments for the State of Missouri. Watercolor on board, 10 1 / 2 x 8 inches, initialed by the artist “F.F.S.” and with the approval signature of Lieutenant Colonel William R. Gibson as Quartermaster in the United States Army; minor wear, small piece of cello tape in upper left corner. Np, 19 January 1923 [400/600] This original design for the Missouri National Guard crest depicts a standing bear in profile with claws extended above a blue and yellow wreath. The design is still in use in the patches worn by Missouri units. 165