Adolf Schwartz Medical Stamp Collection
Adolf Schwartz Medical Stamp Collection
The Adolf W. Schwartz medical stamp collection consists of approximately 700,000 stamps with medical themes. The stamps are organized in 109 four-inch binders, in chronological order, and are the results of 60 years of collecting by Dr. Schwartz. Subjects on the stamps include doctors, nurses, military medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, folk and mythical medicine, plants and herbs, inventors of surgical instruments, doctors serving in Congress, places named for physicians, and more. The stamps are cancelled, non-cancelled, commemorative, in postcard form, first-day issue, proofs, tax stamps, tobacco stamps, postal cancellations, and legal tender. Stamps feature, for example, Elisabeth Blackwell, Marie Curie, Wilhelm Roentgen, and Florence Nightingale, among thousands of others. The collection includes a series on the Nobel Prizes from the Federated States of Micronesia, as well as a series of special oversized cigar bands from the Canary Islands, featuring Nobel Prize winners in Medicine of Physiology for the years 1901-1970, including Joshua Lederberg, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Marshall Nirenberg. The collection also includes 16 books that Dr. Schwartz compiled containing biographical and historical information about the stamps and their subjects.
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No restrictions on access.
- Dates
- Creation: 1940-1990
- Extent
- 109 binders
- Related Names
- Schwartz, Adolf
- Language of Materials
- English
- Script
- Latn
Healing Gods, Saints-Protectors, Great Healers and Ancient Physicians, undated
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- Creation: undated
Aesculapius to Galen, undated
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- Creation: undated
Physicians of the early Christian Era and the Medieval Time, undated
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- Creation: undated
1B - BC, 329-1000
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- Creation: 329-1000
Stamps, 1000-1492
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- Creation: 1000-1492
Stamps, 1502-1578
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- Creation: 1502-1578
Stamps, 1587-1635
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- Creation: 1587-1635
Stamps, 1543-1720
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- Creation: 1543-1720
Stamps, 1722-1741
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- Creation: 1722-1741
Stamps, 1742-1750
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- Creation: 1742-1750
Stamps, 1751-1755
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- Creation: 1751-1755
Stamps, 1757-1771
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- Creation: 1757-1771
Stamps, 1771-1783
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- Creation: 1771-1783
Stamps, 1784-1794
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- Creation: 1784-1794
Stamps, 1795-1801
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- Creation: 1795-1801
Stamps, 1802-1807
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- Creation: 1802-1807
Stamps, 1808-1813
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- Creation: 1808-1813
Stamps, 1813-1818
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- Creation: 1813-1818
Stamps, 1818-1823
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- Creation: 1818-1823
Stamps, 1823-1827
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- Creation: 1823-1827
Stamps, 1828-1833
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- Creation: 1828-1833
Stamps, 1833-1838
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- Creation: 1833-1838
Stamps, 1840-1845
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- Creation: 1840-1845
Stamps, 1845-1852
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- Creation: 1845-1852
Stamps, 1852-1854
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- Creation: 1852-1854
Stamps, 1855-1857
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- Creation: 1855-1857
Stamps, 1858-1860
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- Creation: 1858-1860
Stamps, 1860-1862
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- Creation: 1860-1862
Stamps, 1862-1863
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- Creation: 1862-1863
Stamps, 1864
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- Creation: 1864
Stamps, 1865-1866
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- Creation: 1865-1866
Stamps, 1866-1869
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- Creation: 1866-1869
Stamps, 1870-1872
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- Creation: 1870-1872
Stamps, 1873-1874
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- Creation: 1873-1874
Stamps, 1874-1875
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- Creation: 1874-1875
Stamps, 1876-1878
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- Creation: 1876-1878
Stamps, 1878-1879
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- Creation: 1878-1879
Stamps, 1879-1882
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- Creation: 1879-1882
Stamps, 1883-1885
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- Creation: 1883-1885
Citation
Cite Item
Schwartz, Adolf. Adolf Schwartz Medical Stamp Collection. 1940-1990. Located in: Prints and Photographs Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; PP10-43.
Cite Item Description
Schwartz, Adolf. Adolf Schwartz Medical Stamp Collection. 1940-1990. Located in: Prints and Photographs Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; PP10-43. https://findingaids.nlm.nih.gov/repositories/6/resources/897 Accessed July 26, 2025.