Vintage 1891 Cover Budapest Postmark TOO LATE Steamer SS Columbia Two Wars Ship

Description: Fantastic Vintage Postal Cover New York and Budapest Postmarked 1891 to Dr. Arpad Gerster, Hamburg via Steamer Columbia with two Washington 2-Cent and Franklin One Cent Stamps. Gerster was quite a guy please see below for more info. Lots of collectible elements to this item with the TOO LATE Stamp, Bupadest Postmarks and Steamer Columbia transit. The SS Columbia history is fascinating it was launched in 1889 but purchased by the Spanish and renamed the Rapido for service during the Spanish-American War. After the war it was re-purchased by Hamburg America Line and served as a cruise ship until 1904 when the Russians purchased it for service (renamed the Terek) during the Russo-Japanese War. She was scrapped in 1907. Condition is good tear upper right from opening and foxing. Zoom in on pics as part of description. These ship fast and FREE! Contact us any questions we try our best and please follow our store if you seek rare and unique. Here's more about letter recipient:Arpad Gerster (1848-1923) was a Hungarian surgeon, scholar, artist, humanist and sportsman of great energy and intellectual capacity. He emigrated to the United States in the 1870s and met his wife Anna (from Cincinnati, OH) during one his ocean voyages. They married 1875 and had one son John. A man of extraordinary interests and powers of observation, he was a linguist, musician, artist, traveler and writer, in addition to conducting an exemplary career in medicine. His diaries chronicling his visits to the Adirondacks New York State (Raquette and Long lakes, where the Gersters had camps) from 1895 to the early 1900s are a unique and exceptionally vivid and astute record of the region in that time period. Gerster was about to settle in Kassa when he was called to the colors as an army surgeon. When he was finally placed on the reserve list he was appointed pathologist at the Kassa City Hospital. Since he had an uncle in Brooklyn, New York, and had read much about America, he conceived the idea of settling in the United States, which notion was regarded by all his friends and associates as incomparably foolish. For the first few years, he was engaged in general practice in Brooklyn, NY. The new antiseptic technique which was gradually being adopted tended to make specialization practicable if not almost necessary, however, and after removing from Brooklyn to New York Gerster practised surgery exclusively. He received in 1878 the appointment of attending surgeon to the German (later Lenox Hill) Hospital and two years later, a like appointment to the Mount Sinai Hospital, being one of the few Gentiles to be thus honored. In 1882, with John A. Wyeth, he was made surgeon to and professor of surgery in the new New York Polyclinic, retaining this chair until 1894. Having espoused the new technique inaugurated by Lord Lister, he became distinguished as a teacher; among his pupils were William J. and Charles Mayo. In 1902, he refused a tentative offer of the chair of surgery in the University of Budapest. He served as president of the American Surgical Association in 1911-12, and in 1916, he was appointed professor of clinical surgery at Columbia University. His medical writings, with the exception of his text-book, were limited to clinical and historical papers. In 1917, he published his much-read autobiography, Recollections of a New York Surgeon. Achievements Gerster was the first in America to publish a text-book on the new surgery, Rules of Aseptic and Antiseptic Surgery (1888). Not only was it revolutionary in content, but the mechanical work was ultramodern; it contained some of the earliest of half-tone pictures, made from the author’s own plates. This epoch-making book went through three editions in two years, and was then allowed to lapse because the author believed that it had done its work.

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