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Box 26

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Contains 105 Results:

Inventory of effects of Walter Reed, November 23, 1902

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 44
Identifier: uva-lib:2224917
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: November 23, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Histories of Major Walter Reed's military career, 1902

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 45
Identifier: uva-lib:2224918
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Telegram from the Assistant Adjutant General to Commanding Officer, Fort Myer, Virginia, November 24, 1902

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 46
Identifier: uva-lib:2224921
Scope and Contents

Telegram relates to furnishing escort for Walter Reed's funeral.

Dates: November 24, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William C. Borden to the War Department,  December 6, 1902

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 47
Identifier: 02647001
Scope and Contents

Borden certifies that Reed died in the line of duty. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  December 6, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Christopher Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  December 23, 1902

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 48
Identifier: 02648001
Scope and Contents

Christopher Reed provides a story of young Walter Reed in Brooklyn, where he was frustrated by malpractice in the medical profession.

Dates:  December 23, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Howard A. Kelly,  December 27, 1902

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 49
Identifier: 02649001
Scope and Contents

Kean discusses a strategy to lobby Congress to approve a pension for Emilie Lawrence Reed.

Dates:  December 27, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Dr. Reed as a Medical Officer, an address given in honor of Walter Reed,  December 31, 1902

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 50
Identifier: 02650001
Scope and Contents

Kean's remarks about Reed portray him as a great storyteller and as a doctor making heroic house-calls during his "Dakota winters".

Dates:  December 31, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Value of Dr. Reed's Work,  circa 1902

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 51
Identifier: 02651001
Scope and Contents

[Kean?] comments on the paucity of public praise that Reed has received. He maintains that his work should be recognized by the United States government, and ends with a call for a generous pension to Emilie Lawrence Reed.

Dates:  circa 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Data from reports made by William Crawford Gorgas,  1902

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 52
Identifier: 02652001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas details mosquito larvae inspections, from December 1901 to December 1902.

Dates:  1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Newspaper clippings relating to the death of Walter Reed and work of Jesse W. Lazear, 1902

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 53
Identifier: uva-lib:2224928
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Extract from theAnnual Report of the Secretary of War,  1902

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 54
Identifier: 02654001
Scope and Contents

The report recognizes the work of Reed, Gorgas, Kean, Carroll, and Lazear.

Dates:  1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Excerpt fromDr. Walter Reed,  1902

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 55
Identifier: 02655001
Scope and Contents

This excerpt discusses Reed's medical work and gives a listing of each publication authored by Reed.

Dates:  1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Booklet published by the Walter Reed Memorial Association,  circa 1902

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 56
Identifier: 02656001
Scope and Contents

This booklet contains extracts and resolutions honoring Walter Reed furnished by various individuals and institutions.

Dates:  circa 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

William H. Welch's account of Walter Reed's work at Johns Hopkins University, 1902

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 57
Identifier: uva-lib:2224937
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from James Carroll to L. O. Howard,  January 5, 1903

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 58
Identifier: 02658001
Scope and Contents

Carroll asks to borrow a journal from Howard that is not in the library. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  January 5, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Clippings relating to the remembrance of Walter Reed, circa 1903-1933

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 59
Identifier: uva-lib:2224939
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: circa 1903-1933
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Howard A. Kelly,  January 11, 1903

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 60
Identifier: 02660001
Scope and Contents

Kean solicits support for pension bills in Congress. He discusses biographical essays on Walter Reed by himself and Kelly.

Dates:  January 11, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from the Paymaster General's Office to Aristides Agramonte, January 13, 1903

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 61
Identifier: uva-lib:2224943
Scope and Contents

Letter relates to $45 owed by Aristides Agramonte to the War Department.

Dates: January 13, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from John R. Vaughan to Howard A. Kelly,  January 14, 1903

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 62
Identifier: 02662001
Scope and Contents

Vaughan requests that a letter in support of the pension bill be sent to the Washington Post.

Dates:  January 14, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Caroline Latimer,  circa January 28, 1903

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 63
Identifier: 02663001
Scope and Contents

Kean encourages Kelly to support the pension bill with a letter to the Washington Post.

Dates:  circa January 28, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed