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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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Postcard featuring photograph Cherokee County Hospital Building

"Cherokee County Hospital, Gaffney, S.C.," 1939

South Carolina Hospital Postcards Digital Collection
Aerial view of multiple buildings being constructed on the campus of the Medical College of South Carolina in June of 1968.

"Construction of Basic Science, Dental...," 1968

Medical College Expansion Program Lantern Slides, 1954-1974
Black and white engraved illustration of unattentive doctors gathering while patient stands assisted in pain.

"The Harlot's Progress," G. Presbury, Undated

Waring Historical Library Medical Caricatures Digital Collection
Group photo of African American midwives seated and standing outside of building.

"Midwives," circa 1930-1939

Charleston County Health Department Digital Collection
Man examining a glass while woman with a clipboard looks on.

"Sanitation and Inspection," 1947

Charleston County Health Department Digital Collection
Illustration of cardiovascular procedure with captions. Inset illustration of open and closed valvulotome appears in the bottom, left corner of the parent illustration..

"Showing the pericardium...,"

Horace Gilbert Smithy, Jr., M.D. Papers

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