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Marked: Coors, USA.

White ceramic with pestle missing.

Wooden chest with glass knobs, contents of drawers identified with glass labels. Country of origin is England.

Miscellaneous parts, some damaged, housed in wooden box with label: C.T. Amsler, Optician, 635 Chestnut St., Phila. Box has some damage. C.T. Amsler sold his business in Philadelphia in 1861 and returned to Switzerland, his native country.

Brass miscroscope accessories housed in wooden cigar box.

New York: G. Tiemann & Co. Housed in velvet-lined case.

Philadelphia: Chas. Lentz & Sons.

Doctor's bag with instruments.

Gavel of wood from the birthplace of Walter Reed, Belroi, Virginia.

A caustic pencil is a short stick of medication usually containing silver nitrate, used to cauterize skin, for instance for the treatment of nosebleeds, removal of warts, or pyogenic granuloma. They are not used as a treatment for minor cuts. A frequent source of confusion appears to be the difference between styptic and caustic pencils. Silver nitrate sticks are often used for hemostasis in medical situations where patients are not under general anesthesia, where electrocautery would be painful and inconvenient.

Marked St. Louis, MO: C.W. Alban.

Velvet lined wooden box. Brass plate on lid: Dr. T.B. Fuqua.

Package of wooden tongue depressors. Sayah. Original packaging in cardboard box.

Brass with cloth strap.

Hew saw [18th century] and bit [19th century].

Early Greek. Replica.

On plunger knob: D&H, Record. On plunger: Herz, Germany.

Metal; possibly used in pill making.

Used in pill-making. Cast steel with wooden handle.

Marked New York: W.F. Ford Co. Brass.

Hypodermic needle in glass tube

Schering. Replica of original from Northern Peru, circa 800-1000 AD; replica was used for pharmaceutical advertising.

Replica of first stethoscope by Rene Theophile Laennec in 1816. Marked "Roche." Housed in gift box.

Leather bag with key. Contains 100 labeled glass vials, some with contents: 60 small, 44 large. Also comes with miscellaneous instruments, including metal case with hypodermic needles and lancet.

Mounted for display.

Smellie perforating scissors (right), craniotomy hook (center), and trocar (left).

Obstetrical/gynecological medical instruments in a wooden box: Handle for instrument, unknown use.

Ob/gyn medical instruments in a wooden box: Two syringes marked India Rubber Catarrhal Syringe. Box label reads: manufactured under Goodyear's Patent by India Rubber Comb Company

Ob/gyn medical instruments in a wooden box: India rubber breast pump. Box label reads: manufactured under Goodyear's Patent by India Rubber Comb Co.

Ob/gyn medical instruments in a wood box: Brass scarificator, glass cupping jar, and set of graduated metal cups.

Ob/gyn medical instruments in a wooden box: Rubber pessary

Ob/Gyn medical instruments in a wooden box: Obstetrics forceps with wooden handle, Placenta forceps

Ob/Gyn medical instruments in a wooden box: Cusco's bivalve speculum, Fergusson's speculum

Ob/Gyn medical instruments in a wooden box: various probes and catheters

Ob/Gyn medical instruments in a wooden box: Unidentified instrument

Contents include: Catheters, probes

Marked Paris: E.P. [n.d.] Ivory handles.

Cast of bound foot of an adult woman treated by Dr. Wm. H. Park around 1890.

Set of fourteen surgical instruments with ivory handles.

Large brass microscope in wooden case; includes many parts, and specimen slides.

James B. Duke to Benjamin N. Duke and Sarah P. Duke, 18 August 1880, regarding family trip to Tennessee.

Includes telegrams from Benjamin N. Duke to James B. Duke regarding Washington Duke's health; condolence letters and telegrams to James B. Duke on the occasion of Washington Duke's death

Includes instructions from James B. Duke to Benjamin N. Duke for disbursements to Trinity College in 1907

Includes letter acknowledging receipt of a contribution to the Trinity College endowment; correspondence related to the Conservatory of Music lot in Durham, NC

Chiefly letters regarding Execution against the wages of Eustace Crocker (employee) (see also Legal Papers: Agreements, Court Records, Indentures, 1897-1925); letter from Trinity College alumnus to James B. Duke

Report from W. P. Few and Trinity College Board of Trustees on the distrubtion of the J.B. Duke's fund for "worn-out" Methodist preachers; J.B. Duke to Frank Vanderlip, requesting he act as the 1916 Trinity College Commencement speaker

J.B. Duke to Alex. H. Sands requesting alteration to Doris Duke Trust; correspondence with National Americana Society re: chapter on the Duke family in "Annals of American Families" (see Miscellaneous Series: Printed Materials: Duke family history (oversize))

Mainly correspondence related to Benjamin N. Duke's search for relations; includes resolution from Mecklenburg Alumni of Trinity College supporting the change of the institution's name to Duke University

Mainly correspondence related to Benjamin N. Duke's search for relations; includes confirmation of transfer of stock from James B. Duke to Duke University for building fund (May 29-June 1, 1925); letter from Benjamin N. Duke to Sarah P. Duke regarding James B. Duke's final illness and treatment (September 26, 1925);

Letter from A. H. Sands to R. L. Flowers, April 1940

Prints of Washington Duke on the porch of the the Duke Homestead dwelling; images of tobacco barns, one with Washington Duke standing beside it.