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Colonel Manly's photograph album and photographs of Philip Showalter Hench and Atcheson Hench(, 1898-1962

 File — Box: 92
Identifier: uva-lib:2231347

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Series IX. Photographs consists primarily of photographs that Philip Showalter Hench created and collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1846 to around 1966 with the bulk of the items dating from around 1870 to around 1960. The subjects shown in the photographs include, but are not limited to the following:
From the Series:
  1. physicians, military personnel, nurses, and volunteers associated with the experiments including Walter Reed, Jesse W. Lazear, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Aristides Agramonte;
  2. family members of people associated with the yellow fever experiments including their spouses, children, and grandchildren.
  3. Camp Lazear, Camp Columbia, and other locations in Cuba related to the yellow fever experiments between 1900 and 1960;
  4. the U.S.S.Maineand the Spanish-American War;
  5. aerial views of Havana, Cuba and its environs from the 1940s and 1950s
  6. scenes of daily life in Cuba generally from between 1898 and 1960;
  7. the 1952 dedication of the Camp Lazear National Monument in Cuba;
  8. the creation and unveiling of Dean Cornwell's painting,Conquerors of Yellow Fever;
  9. still scenes from the movies,Yellow JackandJezebel;
  10. other events and works of art commemorating the work of the participants in the yellow fever experiments;
  11. documents and maps that Philip Showalter Hench copied for his research;
  12. and Philip Showalter Hench and his family.
From the Series:

Series IX. also includes a watercolor that was painted by Emilie Lawrence Reed.

Many of the photographs in this series are annotated with notes. Some of these notes appear to have been written by Philip Showalter Hench, while others were written by people associated with the yellow fever experiments (e.g. Albert E. Truby). It appears that many of the photographs were separated from related materials in other parts of the collection, particularly Series... VIII., and rehoused housed in Series IX.

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Dates

  • Creation: 1898-1962

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Collection is predominantly in English; other materials in the collection are in Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

Access

There are no restrictions on user access to any of the materials in the collection except where noted in the container list.

Extent

From the Series: 20 boxes

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