Massachusetts 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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Deacon Giless Distillery temperance cartoon, 1830s

"Bringing back the rum," temperance cartoon showing liquor barrels labeled with forms of death, Salem, Massachusetts.
Hand-colored woodcut from an 1830s temperance pamphlet

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Cradle of Pilgrim child born on the Mayflower

Cradle of Peregrine White, born on the "Mayflower" in Cape Cod Bay, 1620.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration of the artifact

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