Image Added Dr. Joseph J. Kinyoun, founder of the Hygienic Laboratory. Photograph of oil painting in the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health
Image Added A representation of the cholera epidemic of the nineteenth century. National Library of Medicine photograph archive
Image Added Photo of Dr. Kinyoun, photograph courtesy of the NIH Almanac
Image Added Dr. Ida A. Bengtson, the first woman to be hired as a bacteriologist in the Hygienic Laboratory. National Library of Medicine photograph archive.
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Image Added Senator Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana. National Library of Medicine photograph archive
Image Added NIH campus, ca. 1947. National Cancer Institute "Building 6" shown to the right. NIH Historical Office photograph archive
Image Added In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the new NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. National Archives and Records Administration photograph, courtesy of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York
Image Added Industrial worker in protective gear. National Archives and Records Administration. (Note on photographer: this photograph was probably taken by the distinguished African American photographer Gordon Parks, employed during World War II by the United States government to document the war effort.)
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Image Added WWII Oxygen communications mask. Courtesy of Dr. Adrianne Noe, Director, National Museum of Health and Medicine
Image Added Dr. James A. Shannon, NIH Director, 1955 - 1968, receiving the Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Award from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. NIH record, 20 August 1968, p. 1.
Image Added Dr. James A. Shannon, courtesy of the NIH Almanac
Image Added National Institute of Health, 1949, NIH Historical Office photograph archive
Image Added Artist's 1948 sketch for the NIH Clinical Center. NIH Historical Office photograph archive
Image Added "In 1944, X-ray treatments for cancer were first tested on tumors for mice. This instrument was used to position the mouse so that only the tumor to be irradiated was exposed while the rest of the body was protected." National Library of Medicine photograph archive
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Image Added "In 1955, open-heart surgery was performed at the NIH Clinical Center using hypothermia." National Library of Medicine photograph archive
Image Added Dr. DeWitt Stetten, Jr. NIH Historical Office photographic archive.
Image Added National Library of Medicine. NIH Historical Office photograph archive
Image Added Poster for a 1995 Consensus Development Conference about a medical problem widely suffered by travelers. Medical Arts and Photography Branch poster, National Institutes of Health
Image Added Poster for 1997 Consensus Development Conference on biomaterials. Medical Arts and Photography Branch poster, National Institutes of Health
Image Added Poster for 1997 conference on arthritis and osteoporosis, sponsored by the NIH Office for Research on Women's Health. Medical Arts and Photography Branch, National Institutes of Health