The International Society of Scale and Weight Collectors (ISASC), with the collaboration of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, and funds donated by the Streeter family, has set up a Web site featuring selected items from the Edward C. Streeter Collection of Weights and Measures. The Streeter Collection, housed in Yale Historical Medical Library, is one of the most comprehensive study collections of weights and measures in the world in terms of time period and geography. It was the gift of Edward C. Streeter, M.D. (A.B., Yale, 1898) and others, including Streeter's son, John Streeter. Dr. Streeter was a physician, medical historian, and colleague of Drs. Harvey Cushing, John F. Fulton, and Arnold C. Klebs, founders of the Yale Medical Library.

The Web site includes ancient weights, individual weights and weight boxes, nested weights, coin scales, steelyards, and merchant scales. Each artifact is represented by several views and a catalog entry.

See http://www.isasc.org/streeter/

Contact: Toby Appel

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