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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

A Philatelic Tale of Yellow Fever,Clinical Excerpts, 1940

 Item — Box: 138, Folder: 47
Identifier: uva-lib:2231526

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Series XII. Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center additions consists of materials that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1901 to around 1966. These materials were originally a part of the Philip S. Hench papers in the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center Library, but they were transferred to... the University of Virginia in 1991. These items include, but are not limited to the following:

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From the Series:
  1. correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and people connected with the yellow fever experiments including John J. Moran and Walter Reed's children;
  2. newspaper clippings relating to the death or commemoration of individuals associated with the yellow fever experiments;
  3. photographs of the Camp Lazear Memorial, everyday scenes in Cuba, and John J. Moran;
  4. and journal articles, booklets, and other printed matter relating to the yellow fever experiments and its participants.
From the Series:

Materials in this series have been separated and arranged according to their genre (e.g. correspondence, photographs, and reprints).

Dates

  • Creation: 1940

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: 2 boxes

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