Arnold Carl Klebs, 1870–1943: Tuberculosis Specialist, Historian and Bibliophile, and a Founder of the Medical Historical Library

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  Photostat copies of incunabula

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  Pages from Index librorum ab inventa typographia ad annum 1500; chronologice dispositus cum notis historiam typographico-litterariam illustrantibus.

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  Pages from Liber marescalciae equorum

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  Pages from “Gleanings from Incunabula of Science and Medicine,” reprint from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 26 (1932): 52-88.

  Harvey Cushing’s copy.
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  Arnold Carl Klebs in his study at Nyon

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  George Stewart’s lines engraved over the fireplace of the Medical Historical Library.

  Arnold Klebs’ son-in-law presided over the formal dedication of the Yale Medical Library in June, 1941. He gave a blessing over the books and wrote the now-famous lines engraved over the fireplace in the Historical Library.
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  Letter from Arnold Klebs to George Stewart, August 28, 1939

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  Pages from Arnold Klebs Number, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 8(3) (1940)

  When Arnold Klebs turned seventy, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine dedicated an entire issue as a Festschrift.
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  Arnold Klebs at Harvey Cushing’s 70th Birthday, April 1939

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  Arnold Klebs’ granddaughters, Switzerland, 1939

  George and Sarah Klebs Stewart had four daughters shown in this photograph taken in Switzerland. Left to right: Sarah Malcolm (Sally), Jane, Anne, and Mary.
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  Rev. Dr. George Stewart, Arnold Klebs’ son-in-law

  George Stewart (1892-1972) married Arnold Klebs’ daughter, Sarah Malcolm Klebs (1899-1957) in 1925.
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  Announcement by Yale President Charles Seymour of plans for building the Yale Medical Library, October 18, 1939

  Yale University News Statement, October 18, 1939.
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  Page with trefoil from The Making of a Library: extracts from letters, 1934-1941, of Harvey Cushing, Arnold C. Klebs [and] John F. Fulton ; presented to John Fulton by his friends on his sixtieth birthday, 1 November 1959.

  Arnold Klebs designed the oxalis motif on the cover representing the three collections of John Fulton, Harvey Cushing, and Klebs, or, as he put it, the “trefoil solidarity.”
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  “Boomerang” sent by Harvey Cushing to Arnold Klebs

  Cushing writes; “Portraits of Yale’s newest building: (1) Day before yesterday (over) (2) Next day – student in the library. H.C. to A.C.K., 14 Oct. 1935 – see what is happening to “our” lot. I asked Richard Light to go up in the Institute of Human Relations and take a snapshot of it. A few days later I found this boomerang on my desk…” The photograph (1) is of Cushing in his library in his New Haven home. The reverse side (2) shows ground cleared on Cedar Street for new construction including the potential library.
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  Arnold Klebs and Harvey Cushing, with a letter from Cushing

  The letter from Cushing reads: “Could I only have you, in fact, instead of pictorially, so looking over my shoulder in future time I might be inspired to do something worthwhile. Affectionately H.C.”
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  Christmas postcard sent by Arnold Klebs to John and Lucia Fulton, from a drawing of Klebs by Oscar Lazar

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  Arnold Klebs and John Fulton

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  Title page from A Bibliography of the Poem Syphilis sive morbus gallicus by Girolamo Fracastoro of Verona.

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  Harriet and Arnold Klebs

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  Charles Sherrington, Harvey Cushing, William Henry Welch, Graham Moon (an explorer), and John F. Fulton at Les Terrasses, September 1931

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  Page from Mohr von Bern: Ein Schattenspiel . Reprint of 1868 edition

  This reprint of the 1868 original was produced in 1931 as a handout to the guests at the First International Neurological Congress, held at Berne. Page [2], an addition, includes the names and dates of the faculty members of 1868 who were caricatured by the silhouettes and the actions of the shadow play.
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  Arnold Klebs, William Henry Welch, Harvey Cushing and Charles Sherrington

  This photograph was taken at the First International Neurological Congress in Berne in 1931.
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  Arnold Klebs in Berne

  This photograph was taken at the First International Neurological Congress in Berne.
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  Signature boards from Les Terrasses, for visitors to sign their names

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  Library windows at Les Terrasses looking east