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Images Associated with the NLM


Gilded National Library of Medicine title carved into granite slab at the entrance of the NLM (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 98 pixels high, 153 pixels wide, 10259 bytes) Marble at the main entrance to Building 38

Carved and gilded text in granite at entrance of NLM: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE Founded in 1836 as the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army + developed as a national resource under the leadership of John Shaw Billings, Librarian from 1865 to 1895 + named Army Medical Library in 1922, and Armed Forces Medical Library in 1952 + made a part of the Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1956 + established on this site in 1961, the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of its founding. (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 101 pixels high, 149 pixels wide, 12883 bytes) Marble at the entrance to Building 38, interior view, contains brief history of the NLM

Seal, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 97 pixels high, 97 pixels wide, 5720 bytes) Seal, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Seal, U.S. National Library of Medicine (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 102 pixels high, 101 pixels wide, 5546 bytes) Seal, U.S. National Library of Medicine


Donald A. B. Lindberg, M.D., Director of the NLM

Bronze bust of John Fitzgerald Kennedy by artist Robert Berks, 1969, approx. 16 inches tall (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 100 pixels high, 73 pixels wide, 5880 bytes) Bust of John F. Kennedy (who, as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, joined Senator Lister Hill in putting forward a bill creating the National Library of Medicine).

Bronze bust of Lister Hill by artist Robert Berks, 1969, approx. 16 inches tall (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 100 pixels high, 83 pixels wide, 6376 bytes) Senator Lister Hill (Alabama)


National Library of Medicine complex, looking west from Rockville Pike, Summer (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 98 pixels high, 124 pixels wide, 9005 bytes) Buildings 38 and 38A

National Library of Medicine complex, looking west from Rockville Pike, Spring (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 100 pixels high, 149 pixels wide, 11927 bytes) The NLM in Spring

National Library of Medicine complex, looking west from Rockville Pike, Summer (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 101 pixels high, 151 pixels wide, 9991 bytes) Buildings 38 and 38A on a fair day

National Library of Medicine complex, looking west from Rockville Pike, illuminated at nighttime (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 102 pixels high, 196 pixels wide, 10652 bytes) Buildings 38 and 38A, viewed looking west, at night

National Library of Medicine complex, looking southeast, Summer (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 100 pixels high, 149 pixels wide, 9675 bytes) Buildings 38 and 38A, viewed looking southeast

National Library of Medicine building, looking west from Rockville Pike, Summer (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 101 pixels high, 149 pixels wide, 10690 bytes) Entrance to Building 38, viewed looking west

Entrance of National Library of Medicine building, looking west, Summer (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 101 pixels high, 147 pixels wide, 10627 bytes) The entrance to Building 38 seen in Spring

Entrance of National Library of Medicine building, looking southwest, Summer (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 99 pixels high, 144 pixels wide, 9745 bytes) Entrance to Building 38

Entrance of National Library of Medicine building, looking west, Summer (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 101 pixels high, 149 pixels wide, 10031 bytes) Entrance to Building 38

Patron sitting a computer workstation beneath rotunda of the National Library of Medicine (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 100 pixels high, 150 pixels wide, 10524 bytes) Beneath the rotunda of Building 38

A Computer Room at the NLM, circa 1980 (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 99 pixels high, 147 pixels wide, 12068 bytes) A mainframe computer room (1970s)


iLister Hill Center Building, looking northwest, Summer (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 102 pixels high, 132 pixels wide, 9072 bytes) Building 38A (Lister Hill Center)

Lister Hill Center auditorium, MEDICOM meeting, 1985 (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 103 pixels high, 155 pixels wide, 11416 bytes) Auditorium, Lister Hill Center (Building 38A)

Audience area, Lister Hill Center auditorium (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 99 pixels high, 143 pixels wide, 11314 bytes) Audience, Auditorium, Lister Hill Center


Building 1, NIH, looking northwest, Summer (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 98 pixels high, 147 pixels wide, 12011 bytes) Building 1 (Main Administrative Building), NIH

Two persons at work in a NIH research laboratory (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 102 pixels high, 151 pixels wide, 12309 bytes) Typical research lab at the NIH

Building 10, NIH, looking southwest (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 98 pixels high, 146 pixels wide, 10576 bytes) The Clinical Center (Building 10) at NIH

Surgeons at work, NIH clinical center (photograph, 8-bit color, GIF87 format, 101 pixels high, 110 pixels wide, 8072 bytes) Surgical operation at the NIH


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