Medical instruments and apparatus

Photographic image of a nursing instructor holding a swaddled baby and a nursing student look down at additional swaddled babies in a long crib-like apparatus holding five babies separated by wooden dividers at the University of Denver Nursing School in 1957.

Photographic image of three individuals watching a watching a scientist demonstrate a piece of equipment in a laboatory at the University of Denver, circa 1955.

Photographic image of a nursing student using medical apparatus, which is attached to a seated individual at the University of Denver in 1955.

Photographic image of one nursing student using an otoscope to look into another student's ear at the University of Denver on 3/5/1980. A chalkboard in the back shows what appears to be a list.

Photographic image of nursing students in a classroom watching two instructors and a nursing student with a hospital bed containing what appears to be a mannequin at the University of Denver Nursing School, circa 1950.

A Taylor diagnostic reflex hammer, used by Dr. Arthur Esserman, has a steel handle and a triangular piece of rubber held in place by a steel loop at the end of the handle. James Madison Taylor designed the ''tomahawk'' reflex hammer in 1888. Dr. Arthur L. Esserman (born 1898) was an intern at Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado from 1924 to 1926 and practiced pediatric medicine in Denver from 1926 until his death in 1952.

Interior of the Sterilization Room in the I. Rude Medical Building, on the campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Equipment shown includes autoclaves, a sink and floor drain. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Stethoscope used by Dr. Arthur L. Esserman, a pediatrician in Denver, Colorado. Stethoscope consisting of two silver colored metal ear pieces with black rubber ends and rubber tubing attached to other side of metal pieces. They both attach to a V-shaped piece of silver metal with a piece of red rubber at the end. Dr. Arthur L. Esserman (born 1898) was an intern at Children's Hospital in Denver from 1924 to 1926 and practiced pediatric medicine from 1926 until his death in 1952.

Photographic image of a nursing student in a white dress looking at test tubes in a laboratory setting at the University of Denver in 1951.

Photographic image of a student nurse practicing on another student nurse with otoscope and tongue depressor at the University of Denver School of Nursing in July of 1981.