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Repository: Oskar Diethelm Library, Weill Cornell Medical College
Event Title: Witchcraft Collections Tour, Oskar Diethelm Library
Event Format: In-Person
Event Type: Tour
Event Date: Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
Event Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Event Location: Oskar Diethelm Library, 525 East 68th St., New York NY 10065
Please join us for a tour focusing on the witchcraft collections of the Oskar Diethelm Library on October 22. The Oskar Diethelm Library, part of Weill Cornell Medical College's DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry, is a special collections library devoted to the history of psychiatry. Comprising approximately 35,00 titles, the collection has strengths in psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, mesmerism, spiritualism, phrenology, witchcraft and related topics, with titles stretching as far back as the 15th century. Regarding witchcraft, the Oskar Diethelm Library has particular strengths in Salem historiography, demonology, and the intersection between witchcraft and psychiatry, including an early edition of Malleus Maleficarum.
Please RSVP to nrt4001@med.cornell.edu. The tour is limited to 12 people, and directions to the library are available at: https://psychiatry.weill.cornell.edu/research-institutes/dewitt-wallace-institute-psychiatry/oskar-diethelm-library/visit-library
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