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Henry Rose Carter papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-10
 

Henry Rose Carter papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-10

The Carter Papers include correspondence relating to Carter's work on yellow fever and malaria as a surgeon in the Marine Health Service (later United States Public Health Service) and notes for drafts of his Yellow Fever: An Epidemiological and Historical Study of its Place of Origin. (Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company, 1931). Included are photographs of and newspaper clippings about Carter, in addition to a small collection of reprints and publications by Carter and others. Also included is the correspondence of his daughter, Laura Armistead Carter with Frederick F. Russell and other members of the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Board, Wade Hampton Frost, of Johns Hopkins University, and others concerning her collaboration with Frost in the editing and publication of Carter's book. Also included are a series of eighteenth-century to mid-nineteenth-century documents principally belonging to Carter's great-grandfather, George Mason, of Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties, Virginia and to Mary Ann Brown, sister of Carter's mother.

Special Note:This collection should be consulted in conjunction with the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Department of Historical Collections and Services, MS 1 (and in online version: http://yellowfever.lib.virginia.edu), containing a substantial complementary deposit of Henry Rose Carter papers.

Conditions Governing Access

No Restrictions

Dates
Creation: 1775-1947
Extent
4.25 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
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Creation: 1786/02/24
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Creation: 1787/02/17
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Creation: 1791/05
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Creation: 1795/09
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Creation: 1795/09/02
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Creation: 1796
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Creation: 1835/06/22
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Creation: 1839/01/10
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Creation: 1853/01/25
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Creation: 1856/03/27
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Creation: [1872-1873]
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Creation: 1879/07
 
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Creation: 1898
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Creation: 1899-1905
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Creation: 1908
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Creation: 1910-1915
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Creation: 1911-1918
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Creation: [1918-1925, CA.]
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Creation: 1921
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Creation: 1922
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Creation: 1922-1925
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Creation: 1922-1925
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Creation: 1922-1925
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Creation: 1922-1925
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Creation: 1922-1925
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Creation: 1922-1925
 
 
 
 
 
 
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