19th Century Gallery

First use of anesthesia in surgery, 1846

First public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1846.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustratioin

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British army advancing at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Duke of Wellington ordering the entire British line to advance at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Oldest Dickinson College building, "Old West" Hall, designed by Benjamin Latrobe, built in 1803 to replace the original college hall, which burned.
Digital photograph

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