Talk:Carnegie Collection

Human Developmental Anatomy Center

The following information are excerpts from the Guide to Collections (2014) p198 - 201.

HDAC 1 Arey-Dapeña Pediatric Pathology Collection

• 24 boxes, 5 binders.
• Finding aid, restricted, digitized.
• Over 6,000 lantern slides of various pediatric pathologies, represented by both gross and histological images, created by Marie (Molly) Valdes-Dapeña at the University of Miami.
• All slides have been digitized and a searchable database is available.

HDAC 2 AFIP Sudden Infant Death Collection

• A collection of wet tissue blocks sealed in plastic, glass slides, and detailed case histories documenting cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
• Materials were originally acquired in the 1970s and 1980s at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

HDAC 2.5 Birth Defects Encyclopedia

• Records and photographs used to compile the Birth Defects Encyclopedia by Mary Louise Buyse.
• A printed copy of the 1892-page encyclopedia and an electronic file used to produce the print version are included in the collection.

HDAC 3 Carnegie Collection Of Embryology

• This collection consists principally of serial sections of normal human embryo development in the first eight weeks, as started by the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Department of Embryology in 1914.
• The collection now forms the core of the Human Developmental Anatomy Center.
• Extensive collateral materials include case histories, photographs, micrographs, models in various media, and comparative materials (mostly rhesus).
• Reprints from the Carnegie Contributions to Embryology, other reprints relating to embryology, films, and personal documents are also available.
• This collection incorporates other embryo collections, such as the Davis Orthopedic Development and Elizabeth Mapelsden Ramsey Collections.
• Partially digitized.

HDAC 3 Davis Orthopedic Development Collection

• Part of the Carnegie Collection of Embryology added while curated at the University of California, Davis.
• A large collection of glass slides charting bone growth and development in the human.
• Slides are grouped by structure starting with the head and moving down through the torso and out the extremities.

HDAC 3 Hertig Videos

• Six VHS tapes of lectures given by Dr. Arthur T. Hertig, an embryologist who worked extensively with the Carnegie materials.
• The tapes include two each of: trophoblastic disease, malignant disease of the uterus, and ovarian tumors.
• See also OHA 189, Hertig Collection.

HDAC 4 Cornell School Of Veterinary Med. Embryological Collection

* About 150 boxes, 12 binders.

• From the Cornell School of Veterinary Medicine in Ithaca, NY this collection includes human, rat, mouse and guinea pig embryos.
• There is still a large collection of embryonic material at Cornell.

HDAC 5 Gaensler Pulmonary Pathology Collection

• A collection of radiographic images and case histories of lung diseases, primarily asbestosis.
• Transferred to the Archives in November 2008 as OHA 163.55.

HDAC 6 Hooker-Humphrey Collection

• Originally compiled at the University of Pittsburgh by Davenport Hooker (1887-1965) and Tryphena Humphrey (1902-1971), this collection came to the Museum via the University of Alabama.
• This collection of human and comparative material is stained to highlight nervous system development.
• Sizes of specimens range from 3mm to 310mm. For those wishing to study the development of the human nervous system from birth through maturity to old age.
• This collection is a bridge between the Carnegie Collection focusing on the first eight weeks of development and the neonatal to adult material in the Yakovlev-Haleem Collection.