Harvey Cushing: A Journey Through His Life

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Diary of the Society of Clinical Surgery Trip to Europe, 1912
Harvey Cushing at his desk at Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1907
Johns Hopkins Hospital "All Star Operation," 1904

From a small copy photograph. First day in the new operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
No. 1 and No. 3 West Franklin St., Baltimore
Harvey Cushing with a mustache

Photograph taken during HC's year studying abroad in 1900-1901 when he grew a mustache.
Harvey Cushing's Journal from Travel Abroad, 1900-1901

In this page of his travel diary, on May 6, 1901, Cushing, visiting Italy, sketched Riva Rocci’s new blood-pressure apparatus. He brought a blood pressure instrument back with him and used it in his surgery, keeping careful patient records of blood pressure, as he had previously for temperature and pulse.
Harvey Cushing drawing of the brain

Inscription: Cushing fec. 1900.
Harvey Cushing bookplate
Surgical resident staff, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1899

Left to right: James F. Mitchell, Harvey Cushing, M.B. Clopton
Johns Hopkins Hospital, ca. 1900
Johns Hopkins Hospital Staff, ca. 1897

First row: William S. Thayer, Lewellys F. Barker, William Halsted (professor of surgery), William Osler (professor of medicine), Howard A. Kelly (professor of gynecology), Hunter Robb, John M.T. Finney, Joseph C. Bloodgood Second row: G.B. Block, G.W. Dubbin, Harvey Cushing, Thomas Futcher, Hugh Young, …. At the end of second row is Norman Gwyn, Osler’s nephew. Next to the last on the top row is Jesse W. Lazear, who died in Walter Reed’s yellow fever experiments.
House officers, "South Side," Massachusetts General Hospital

Left to right: Harvey Cushing (senior), J.W. Cummin (externe), Dr. William M. Conant (visiting surgeon), J.C. Hubbard, F.S. Newell (junior).
Harvey Cushing in Atlantic City, Postcard
Harvey Cushing's Bermuda Diary
Invitation to an Operation (invitation side)
Invitation to an Operation (address side)
Columbian Exposition diary sketches, 1893

In September 1893, before beginning his third year at Harvard Medical School, Harvey and his physician brother Ned, visited the great Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Lower caption reads "Convent where Columbus was educated."
Cushing's Physiology notes, Harvard Medical School

Cushing kept careful records from all his medical school courses. This page of notes are from an advanced physiology course taught by Henry P. Bowditch.
Harvey Cushing's Yale Examination Schedule, 1890
Harvey Cushing's Yale scrapbook
Yale Baseball Team

Harvey Cushing is third from the right on the top row.
Harvey Cushing on the Yale Baseball Team

Cushing seated first row, second from left. Cushing was the captain of the baseball team in 1891, his senior year.
Harvey Cushing as a senior at Yale

Probably Harvey Cushing's senior photograph
Harvey Cushing and friend on the Yale Old Campus

Original photograph in Cushing's Yale scrapbook.
Harvey Cushing as a sophomore at Yale, 1889

Photograph of original small studio photocard. Inscription: Phelps, 942 Chapel St., New Haven, Ct.