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| Formed in January of 1996, UAB Historical Collections is comprised of three units at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences, the Reynolds Historical Library, and the UAB Archives.These three units house a combined collection of rare and important medical books and manuscripts, some dating to the Middle Ages; equipment, instruments, and objects from the health sciences, including a collection of rare 17th and 18th century anatomical ivory manikins; the official records of the University; and manuscript collections with an emphasis on the health science fields.Although a new administrative unit, the origin of "Historical Collections" at UAB can be traced back several decades. In 1952 Alabama native Lawrence Reynolds, M.D., donated his collection of rare medical texts and manuscripts to The University of Alabama and its Medical Center in Birmingham. Later, faculty member Emmett B. Carmichael, Ph.D., placed the historical materials which he had collected since the early 1940s in the Reynolds Library. Howard L. Holley, M.D., another faculty member at the Medical College, also collected historical materials and eventually placed them in the Reynolds Library and the Medical Center Archives.
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