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The Waring Historical Library
Digital Collections

The Waring Historical Library Digital Collections provide free and open access to the rare and special collections of the Waring, which documents the history of the health sciences in South Carolina, the Southeast, and the 18 and 19th century Atlantic World.

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Sarah Campbell Allan, M.D. Papers, 1895-1952 Collection Icon

Sarah Campbell Allan, M.D. Papers, 1895-1952
Catherine M. McCottry, M.D. Papers Collection Icon

Catherine M. McCottry, M.D. Papers
Medical College Expansion Program Lantern Slides, 1954-1974 Collection Icon

Medical College Expansion Program Lantern Slides, 1954-1974
Medical University of South Carolina Bulletins Collection Icon

Medical University of South Carolina Bulletins
Horace Gilbert Smithy, Jr., M.D. Papers Collection Icon

Horace Gilbert Smithy, Jr., M.D. Papers
Waring Historical Library Inaugural Theses Collection Icon

Waring Historical Library Inaugural Theses

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Featured Digital Collection

The Hospital Herald collection image featuring African American medical staff gathered around an African American patient in a hospital bed.

The Hospital Herald, 1899-1900

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The Waring Historical Library Digital Collections provide access to the historical collections of the Waring's manuscript collections and the collections of the MUSC University Archives. MUSC's institutional repository, which includes contemporary graduate theses and dissertations and faculty research and scholarship can be found at MEDICA@MUSC.

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Browse the Waring Historical Library Digital Collections by Category.

Medica@MUSC

Explore MUSC's institutional repository comprised of the faculty and student research and scholarly output in MEDICA@MUSC in Digital Commons and resources to assist members of the MUSC community in contributing their work.

Online Exhibits

View the online exhibits curated by the Waring and the MUSC University Archives.

Waring Library Catalog

The MUSC Libraries discovery system provides access to descriptive catalog records for materials in the Waring's holdings.

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Contribute to MEDICA@MUSC

Submit your MUSC scholarly works to the open access institutional repository in Digital Commons.
Black and white photo of African American woman standing outside in front of a wooden building from collection of photos of midwives between the 1930s and 1950s in the Charleston County Health Department Photographs Digital Collection.

High Resolution Image Request

Request high resolution images from the Waring's digital collections.
Aerial shot of a wooden box on a lawn and filled with 5x7 and 4x6 photographs.

MUSC COVID-19 Archive Submission

Learn more about the project and contribute your personal reflections and records produced during the pandemic to the COVID-19 Archive.
Black and white image of a ruined building on King Street, near Vanderhorst Street, in Charleston, South Carolina following, the Charleston earthquake in 1886.

Permission to Publish Request

Obtain permission to use materials in the Waring's holdings in publications.

Featured Items

Colored illustration of a male dentist performing a tooth extraction, while the patient winces in pain and clasps white fabric in his hands

"Le Baume d'Acier," Louis Boilly, 1823

Waring Historical Library Medical Caricatures Digital Collection
Black and white image of African American midwives examining the belly of a pregnant patient laying on an examination table.

"Midwives," undated

Charleston County Health Department Digital Collection
Luxo fast blue myelin stain of brain thin section illustration anatomical effects of multiple sclerosis.

"Brain: Multiple Sclerosis"

Gordon R. Hennigar Pathology Museum Digital Collection

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