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Contains photographs, 35mm slides and other visual media of David C. Sabiston Jr., Philip R. Allison, Michael E. DeBakey, John H. Gibbon, William Stewart Halsted, Merel Harmel, Ralph Snyderman, William Anlyan, the Johns Hopkins Surgical Society, the David C. Sabiston Surgical Society, the Society of Clinical Surgery, and the Department of Surgery's Sabiston exhibition that was on display on the 7th floor of the HAFS building from circa 2005 to 2018. Portraits of Sabiston are largely organized by size. Materials date from 1887 to 2010 with a significant amount of the materials undated.

William Steward Halsted (1852-1922) was a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University and credited with founding modern American surgery. While at Johns Hopkins, Halsted pioneered treatments for breast cancer, hernias, and gallstones. The series contains correspondence, research, and notes. Materials date from 1906 to 2001 with a significant amount of the materials undated.

Contains publications from the department of surgery, "Sabiston Textbook of Surgery; The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice", "Distinguished Professors of Duke University" (1991), and bound copies of Alfred Blalock's papers. Materials date from 1966 to 2004.