Timeline Photo Credits
1500-500 BC
- Torah, Grzegorz Niewiadomski.
- Hammurabi’s Code of Laws, Fritz Milkau.
500 BC
- Hippocrates, from Young Persons' Cyclopedia of Persons and Places. 1881.
- Achill Verbindet Den Patroklos., Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
Middle Ages
- Woman being bled by a barber surgeon, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- P.D. Vincentius Maccanti C.R., Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
1500-1700
- Anatomical studies of a man's neck and shoulders, Leonardo da Vinci: pen and ink, circa 1510.
- Observations upon the Bills of Mortality, 1662. John Graunt.
- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Courtesy the National Library of Medicine.
18th Century
- Gin Lane by W. Hogarth., Courtesy the National Library of Medicine.
- Little Tenement Dwellers, John Spargo, Courtesy the National Library of Medicine.
- Denis Diderot by Louis-Michel van Loo, 1767.
- Indians paying tribute to French in Florida., Courtesy of Images of American Political, the College of New Jersey.
- Edward Jenner, Courtesy the National Library of Medicine.
- Y is for Yellow Fever, Courtesy the National Library of Medicine.
- Marine Hospital Service, Courtesy the National Library of Medicine.
19th Century
- A Backyard Examined, Courtesy the National Library of Medicine.
- California! Courtesy of Images of American Political, the College of New Jersey.
- New York City Board of Health: Caricature, Courtesy the National Library of Medicine.
- Edwin Chadwick, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Lemual Shattuck, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Cholera, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
- Florence Nightingale, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Lillian Wald, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Robert Koch, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Louis Pasteur, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Street Scene in New York, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Quarantine, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Tenement Mother and Child in Kitchen, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
1900-1920
- Rat Proofing Volunteers, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Public Health Service, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Quarantine Poster, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
- Ill-Fed and Rickety., Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Public Health Visiting Nurse, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Child Laborers in Indiana Glass Works, Midnight, Indiana. Courtesy of Images of American Political, the College of New Jersey.
- What Every Mother Should Know, Courtesy of Images of American Political History, the College of New Jersey.
1920-1940
- Migrant agricultural worker's family. Nipomo, Calif. Mar. 1936, Dorothea Lange, Courtesy of Images from the Great Depression.
- Penicillin Cures Gonorrhea, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
- A Havasupai Indian woman sitting on a bed, Allan Brands, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- FDR, Images of American Political History, the College of New Jersey.
- Segregation, Images of American Political History, the College of New Jersey.
1940-1960
- Childhood Immunizations, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
- Communicable Disease Centers, Atlanta, 1946, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
- World Health Organization Nurse, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Oral Health, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
- Polio, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
1960-1980
- Smoking and Health, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
- President Johnson Signs Medicare Bill, Courtesy of Images of American Political History, the College of New Jersey.
- Civil Rights Demonstrators, Courtesy of Images of American Political History, the College of New Jersey.
- Legionnaires Disease Press, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
1980-2000
- Red Ribbon Campaign, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
- Ryan White, Health Resources and Services Adminstration.
- Childhood Immunization, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
- Healthy Eating, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
2000-2005
- Emerging Infectious Diseases, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
- America Responds to AIDS Poster, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.
- Dashle Anthrax Letter, from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- SARS, Courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library.