HMD served NLM's rare books, archives, and exhibition functions. Holdings included pre-1914 books, pre-1871 journals, archives and modern manuscripts, medieval and Islamic manuscripts, a collection of printed books, manuscripts, and visual material in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean; historical prints, photographs, films, and videos; pamphlets, dissertations, theses, college catalogs, and government documents.
HMD was reorganized effective Jan. 1, 2024.See also NLM Institutional Web Archives
| Call Number | Title |
|---|---|
| 802 | Exhibits and Publications, 1911-1995 (1 linear ft.) |
| 806 | General Correspondence, 1959-1991 (4.5 linear ft.) |
| 0822 | Film Log, 10 binders, 1963-1972 |
| 1997-028 | Exhibit Files, 1960s-1990s (1.25 linear ft.) |
| 1999-056 | Reading room journals |
| 2001-048 | Register of readers, 1983-88 |
| 2001-050 | Visiting Scholars Program, Applications (forms, cvs, correspondence, reports, applications, published materials and notes), 1984-1988 (0.42 linear ft.) |
| 2001-052 | Exhibit: “Death and Disease in the Neighborhood: Medical Maps of Washington, D.C., 1878-1909” (articles, clippings, correspondence, notes, movie script, copies of maps), 1991-1996 (0.42 linear ft.) |
| 2001-053 | Exhibit: “William Blake at the Library of Medicine” (articles, promotional materials, research files, drafts, correspondence, notes, and photographs), 1997-1998 (0.21 linear ft.) |
| 2001-054 | Exhibit: “If You Knew the Conditions...Healthcare to Native Americans” (articles, correspondence, notes, negatives, photographs, slides, promotional flyers, research files, biographical materials for Susan La Flesche Picotte, speech transcript, copies of documents used in exhibit), 1993-1994 (0.42 linear ft.) |
| 2001-076 | Exhibit - "Breath of Life" poster, signed by Jackie Joyner Kersey and Nancy Hogshead, 1999 |
| 2001-086-087 | Exhibit management, incunabula collation, #312381, Petrus Hispanus, 1957 |
| 2001-088 | James Cassedy Papers |
| 2001-091 | John B. Blake Papers (articles, memos, and a transcribed address), 1962-1982 (1 FF) |
| 2001-092 | William J. Wilson Memorandum (correspondence), 1949, 1957 (1 FF) |
| 2001-093 | 50th Anniversary (correspondence between Richard A. Lyders, President of the Medical Libraries Association and John Parascandola, Ph.D. Chief of HMD), 1992 (1 FF) |
| 2001-094 | NIH Travel Policy (correspondence between Peter B. Hirtle, Curator, HMD and E. Jean Myers, Chief, Travel and Administrative Services Branch, office of Research), 1991 (1 FF) |
| 2001-109 | Correspondence, 1987-94 |
| 2001-113 | Staff reprints, J. S. Billings notecards, 1966-83 |
| 2001-115 | Time and Attendence Notebooks, 1988-1990 (4 linear ft., 15 Black books) |
| 2001-155 | John Shaw Billings Centennial. Papers, 1965 |
| 2002-001 | Exhibit Files, 1946 |
| 2002-004 | Exhibit files, 1946 |
| 2002-014 | Correspondence. American Medical Imprints project, 1954-72 |
| 2002-029 | Index catalogue. Index Foundation |
| 2002-058 | Hanks, Dorothy T. Ref. Librarian reprints, 1966-85 |
| Reference | |
| Register of patrons in the reading room, 1943 | |
| Incunabula exhibit, 1984 | |
| NLM.LO.HMD.John Parascandola, Former chief, HMD | |
| NLM.LO.HMD. John Parascandola, Former chief, HMD, Blake, John | |
| 0732 | Wyndham Miles oral histories, 1974-81 |
| 2002-049 | Miles, Wyndham D. John Shaw Billings files, 1889, 1894, 1983-84 |
| 2002-059 | Miles, Wyndham D. Miscellaneous Files, 1901-1992 |
| MS C 431 | Miles, Wyndham D. History of NLM papers |
| 2009-001 | NLM.LO.HMD. Deputy Chief Teigen |
| 2008-020 | NLM.LO.HMD. 5 year plan, 1975-1976 |
| 2005-001 | NLM.LO.HMD. African American History Month lecture. Preston Reynolds |
| 2005-030 | NLM.LO.HMD. Annual Reports, 1943-1968 |
| 2008-017 | NLM.LO.HMD. Art Section/P&P manual, 1951; 1960 |
| 2004-050 | NLM.LO.HMD. Asian Collection Checklist Correspondence |
| 2005-051 | NLM.LO.HMD. Austin Pre-1820 Medical Imprints Revision Archives |
| 2003-030 | NLM.LO.HMD. Baatz, Simon. NLM history research files, 1966-2002 |
| 2006-050 | NLM.LO.HMD. Cassedy, James, 1963-1968 |
| 2008-018 | NLM.LO.HMD. Cataloging/processing manual, 1971-1975 |
| 2008-019 | NLM.LO.HMD. Cataloging/processing manual, 1944-1957 |
| 2007-068 | NLM.LO.HMD. Cleveland Bindery, 1944-1955 |
| 2005-045 | NLM.LO.HMD. Exhibition Program. Changing the Face of Medicine Interviews |
| 2010-003 | NLM.LO.HMD.Exhibition Program. Exhibit production files |
| 2003-034 | NLM.LO.HMD. Gay/Lesbian/Homosexual/Transgender Awareness Month lecture, 2003 |
| 2003-035 | NLM.LO.HMD. Gay/Lesbian/Homosexual/Transgender Awareness Month lecture, 2005 |
| 2005-002 | NLM.LO.HMD. Gay/Lesbian/Homosexual/Transgender Awareness Month lecture. Martha Vicinus |
| 2005-002/035 | NLM.LO.HMD. Gay/Lesbian/Homosexual/Transgender Awareness Month lecture. Speaker. Martha Vicinus "From Inversion to Perversion", 2004 |
| 2013-030 | NLM.LO.HMD.Histline records, 1976-2002 |
| 2008-010 | NLM.LO.HMD. Index catalog digitization project |
| 2006-004 | NLM.LO.HMD. Monthly reports, 1976-1982 |
| 2009-037 | NLM.LO.HMD. Quarterly reports, 1993-2002 |
| 2005-012 | NLM.LO.HMD. Oral History Research, 1948-1981 |
| 2008-016 | NLM.LO.HMD. Rare book binding contract specifications, ca. 1963 |
| 2005-003 | NLM.LO.HMD. Seminar -"Osler as a medical historian" - Elizabeth Fee |
| 2005-004 | NLM.LO.HMD. Womens History Month lecture. Ellen More. "Sexual morality, cultural authority...." |
| 2008-068 | NLM.LO.HMD. 17th century books cataloging manual, 1963-1965 |
| 2008-062 | NLM.LO.HMD. 50th anniversary celebration |
| 2008-069 | NLM.LO.HMD. Peter Krivatsy's cataloging manual, 1950-1976 |