Visual Archive: non-artistic works

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Subject

cognitive decline, information, graphics

Description

This collection contains visual works, however geared more towards documentation and education, not direct artwork.

Collection Items

Medical Department - Hospitals - Travis, Texas-Psychological Ward

This photograph was taken at Camp Travis', a basecamp in Texas, psychiatric ward during World War one.

The Alois Alzheimer team

This photograph depicts Alois Alzheimer's medical team. This was the team who worked with Auguste Deter, the first recorded individual with Alzheimer's Disease.

Alois Alzheimer

This photographic portrait was taken of Dr. Alois Alzheimer, and is a retouched version of the original.

Von Gliazellen eingekapselte Ganglianzellen aus der Inselrinde. Alkohol. Toluidinblau.

This image depicts a tissue-stained sample containing what would later be termed b-amyloid plaques. This was one of the first physical depictions of Alzheimer Disease pathology.

This photograph is of a handwriting exercise Auguste D.'s doctors had her complete. Mrs. Deter was unable to remember her name properly at the time of this exercise, and tried to do so multiple times. During this exam and similar ones, she explains,…

The electron microscope, its development, present performance and future possibilities

The electron microscope is one of the largest research innovations within the past century. This is one of the earlier models of an EM; today the invention works in the same way but is a fraction of the size.

NIH clinical research center, ariel view

This is an ariel image of a modern day NIH research center. The National Institute on Aging is a subdivision of the National Institute of Health. Typically, in NIH buildings there are also divisions of NIA work within the main buildings. However,…

Richard Nixon

This was the official portrait of Richard Nixon for his American presidency.

The Visitation Convent Complex houses the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Elm Grove, Wisconsin

School Sisters of the Notre Dame convent in the U.S. participated in Dr. Snowdon's landmark Alzheimer Disease study. The Elm Grove convent was one of the major convents that worked within this study.

[Translation:] Hammer of Witches

This is an image of the title page for, A Hammer of Witches, a novel written in the 1600's describing what punishments should be given to individuals that were deemed as less than. This is an important historical source because of the effect it had…

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