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Found in 814 Collections and/or Records:

Photograph of a model (placed to scale) of Camp Columbia,  circa 1940

 Item — Box 77: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 74
Identifier: P7774001
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: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...
Dates:  circa 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs relating toConquerors of Yellow Fever, by Dean Cornwell; Camp Columbia; sites in Cuba and miscellaneous subjects relating to the yellow fever experiments

Photograph of a newspaper clipping showing the yellow fever hospital at Camp Columbia, Cuba with notations by [Philip Showalter Hench],  April 11, 1905

 Item — Box 90: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 9
Identifier: P9009002
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: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...
Dates:  April 11, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs of "false" and actual sites of Camp Lazear, Cuba

Photograph of a painting showing William C. Borden and J. H. Ford performing an operation at the Surgical Clinic for Student Officers, United States Army General Hospital, Washington Barracks, Washington, D.C.,  1902

 Item — Box 80: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 76
Identifier: P8076001
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: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...
Dates:  1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs relating to Jesse W. Lazear. sites in Cuba, Charles G. Sontag, John J. Moran, Walter Reed, Albert E. Truby, Leonard Wood, A.S. Pinto, and Theobold Smith

Photograph of a preliminary sketch of Jefferson Randolph Kean by Dean Cornwell forConquerors of Yellow Fever,  1940

 Item — Box 77: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 22
Identifier: P7722001
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: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...
Dates:  1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs relating toConquerors of Yellow Fever, by Dean Cornwell; Camp Columbia; sites in Cuba and miscellaneous subjects relating to the yellow fever experiments

Post hospital, Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba,  1900

 Item — Box 76: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 76
Identifier: P7676001
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: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...
Dates:  1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs of Walter Reed's birthplace, yellow fever epidemic scenes, Camp Columbia, and various persons related to the yellow fever experiments

Private Dean -- Apotheosis,  August 26, 1928

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 58
Identifier: N3158001
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:  August 26, 1928
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Proceedings of a Medical Commission Appointed By Circular Letter No. 59,  September, 1901

 Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 20
Identifier: 02520001
Scope and Contents

Havard provides evidence that Caldas' and Bellingaghi's theories are unsound and should not be accepted. He includes a detailed time-line of events and a list of arguments to conclude his report against Caldas. Enclosed are charts, reports, and other documents used as evidence. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  September, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Proceedings of a Medical Commission Appointed By Circular Letter No. 59with enclosed chart

Program for the breaking ground for the memorial chapel at Walter Reed General Hospital,  November 11, 1929

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 40
Identifier: 03240002
Scope and Contents

Lower thanks Emilie Reed for her promised gift of a cross and vases for the nearly completed chapel at Walter Reed Hospital.

Dates:  November 11, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letter from Margaret H. Lower to Emilie L. Reed with enclosed program

Questionnaire for an interview with Jefferson Randolph Kean,  June 17, 1940

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 84
Identifier: 06284132
Scope and Contents

Kean answers Hench's questions regarding the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  June 17, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Questionnaire from Philip Showalter Hench to Paul L. Tate,  July 13, 1954

 Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 15
Identifier: 04715085
Scope and Contents

Hench supplies over one hundred detailed questions to Tate.

Dates:  July 13, 1954
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Philip Showalter Hench's interview with Paul L. Tate and related materials

Receipt for disbursing officer's credit for the yellow fever experiment at Camp Lazear,  November 15, 1900

 Item — Box 21: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 80
Identifier: 02180001
Scope and Contents

This is a Cuban Treasury Deposit receipt for the expenses of the yellow fever experiments at Camp Lazear.

Dates:  November 15, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Recollections of Personal Experiences in Connection with the Yellow Fever Epidemics in Havana 1898-1899-1900, related by General Chauncey B. Baker,  November 5, 1934

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 78
Identifier: 06278004
Scope and Contents

Baker's recollections of yellow fever in Havana from 1898 to 1900 include a description of deaths among the American military officers.

Dates:  November 5, 1934
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Recollections of Personal Experiences in Connection with Yellow Fever Epidemics in Havana 1898-1899-1900, by Chauncey B. Baker,  November 5, 1934

 Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 23
Identifier: 03323001
Scope and Contents

Baker describes his personal experiences in connection with yellow fever epidemics in Havana, Cuba.

Dates:  November 5, 1934
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Copies ofRecollections of Personal Experiences in Connection with Yellow Fever Epidemics in Havana 1898-1899-1900, by Chauncey B. Baker

Reconstruction of Building Number One at the Camp Lazear National Monument,  1952

 Item — Box 83: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 19
Identifier: P8319001
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: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...
Dates:  1952
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs of Pinar del Rio and the Camp Lazear National Monument

Record of services for Walter Reed,  March 18, 1882

 Item — Box 17: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 79
Identifier: 01779017
Scope and Contents

The Record of Services summarizes Reed's military assignments from June 26, 1875 through March 18, 1882.

Dates:  March 18, 1882
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Records of the Surgeon General's office relating to a publication honoring Walter Reed and the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission,  January 12, 1911-September 12, 1911

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 2
Identifier: 03002001
Scope and Contents

Records regard the publication of “Major Walter Reed and the Yellow Fever Commission - A Compilation.” The Smithsonian Institution requests photographs of Walter Reed. The record card is dated January 12, 1911 through September 12, 1911. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  January 12, 1911-September 12, 1911
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Report by Walter Reed and George A. Hopkins for the Adjutant General of the United States Army,  July 31, 1898

 Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 01850005
Scope and Contents

Reed and Hopkins report on their inspection of the 1st and 2nd Division Hospitals at Camp Alger. They recommend additional tents and obtaining the services of two contract surgeons. The documents are dated July 31, 1898 and August 6, 1898. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  July 31, 1898
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Report for Walter Reed,  June 30, 1900

 Item — Box 23: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 6
Identifier: 02306001
Scope and Contents

Reed writes his efficiency report for the period, June 30, 1899 to June 30, 1900. Both Sternberg and Baldwin officially endorse Reed's report. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  June 30, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records for Walter Reed

Report for Walter Reed,  July 17, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 1
Identifier: 02401016
Scope and Contents

Reed provides a report of his assignments between June 30, 1900 and June 30, 1901 and lists his areas of expertise. Sternberg provides an efficiency report of Reed's performance. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  July 17, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military orders for Walter Reed

Report for Walter Reed,  June 30, 1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 28
Identifier: 02628007
Scope and Contents

The efficiency report for Reed covers the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  June 30, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed