Talk:Carnegie Collection

Human Developmental Anatomy Center

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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

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.
http://brainmuseum.org

Embryos from the Harvard School of Medicine, as well as drawings and photographs of the embryos.
A large collection of reprints, printed lectures, class syllabi, and theses on embryology and related topics.
The reprint collection was started by Charles S. Minot (1852-1914) in the 1800s and added to through the 1960s.
The reprint collection also includes personal papers and research notes from Charles Wislocki.
Finding aid, arranged?

Reprints, personal papers, correspondence, research notes, and artifacts from Elizabeth Mapelsden Ramsey.
Ramsey was a former curator of the Carnegie Collection, as well as a researcher, lecturer, and teacher.
The collection is subsumed by the Carnegie Collection of Embryology, HDAC 3.

A small set of comparative material on glass slides from the University of Alabama, compiled by E. Carl Sensenig.
Arrived along with the Hooker Humphrey comparative materials.

This is a collection of sectioned embryos and fetuses, focused on the second and third trimesters.
It includes histology sections, reprints, paste-ups for various editions of Patten's Embryology, 2 whole mounts in celloidin, records, and photographic materials.
Alphonse Burdi was the last curator of the collection at University of Michigan and organized its donation to the museum.
The Embryology Research Collection at Michigan was established by embryologists George Streeter and G. Carl Huber in the early 1900s with a mission to collect and describe the morphogenesis of human embryos at critical stages in prenatal life.
For about twenty years up to 1957, the Collection grew in numbers under the leadership of Professor Bradley M. Patten whose primary interests were in heart and cardiovascular development.
- Human Embryology, by Bradley M. Patten, Ph.D. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st edn. 1946; 2nd edn. 1953; 3rd edn. 1968

Links: George Streeter