[S. R. Shapiro Collection]. ca. 1800-1960.

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[S. R. Shapiro Collection]. ca. 1800-1960.

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Collection contains a wide variety of gambling memorabilia and gaming instructions and pamphlets from casinos around the world: Venice, Monte Carlo, Curacao, Paris, Miami, Las Vegas, Panama, Mexico and Aruba. There is also a copy of a French natural history book entitled Memoires de la Societe d'histoire naturelle de Paris dated either 1799 or 1807. Inside the book are attached ads and lottery announcements from English newspapers dating from 1811 to 1816.

1 box (1 linear foot).

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Shapiro, S. R. (Solomon R.), 1911-

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Victor Robinson (1886-1947), medical professor. Victor Robinson was born in Ukraine in 1886 to a Russian physician. He attended New York University and then the New York College of Pharmacy. He also studied law at Columbia University. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1917 from the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery (which would later become Loyola University). He would write many works on the history of medicine and would teach the history of medicine at Tem...

Société d'histoire naturelle de Paris

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