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Yellow fever

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2717 Collections and/or Records:

Picture checklist from the Bettmann Archive for Philip Showalter Hench,  May 21, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 23
Identifier: 04223022
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench primarily consists of materials that Hench created or collected while researching the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in this series date from around 1850 to around 1865 with the bulk of the items dating from 1937 to 1960. Researchers who are studying the yellow fever experiments will be particularly interested in the materials (e.g. interviews, autobiographies) that document first-hand accounts of the events surrounding the experiments. Other...
Dates:  May 21, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Pinar del Rio Barracks, Cuba,  1908

 Item — Box 83: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 3
Identifier: P8303001
Scope and Contents

Photo by US Army Signal Corps.

Dates:  1908
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

Pioneering in Panama, Authority on Yellow Fever Tells How They Conquered the Foe in the Tropics, by Mayme Ober Peak,  circa 1920-1925

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 28
Identifier: 01328002
Scope and Contents

Peake's story on the work of Henry Rose Carter and William Gorgas in ridding Panama of yellow fever includes excerpts from Laura Armistead's Panama diary.

Dates:  circa 1920-1925
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Pioneering in Panama, by Mayme Ober Peak

Plan for restoration of Camp Lazear, Havana, Cuba,  1952

 Item — Box 83: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 13
Identifier: P8313001
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

Plan for the restoration of Camp Lazear, Havana, Cuba, circa 1952

 Item — Box 83: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 12
Identifier: P8312001
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 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

Plaque commemorating the sacrifice of William H. Dean,  September 29, 1928

 Item — Box 77: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 82
Identifier: P7782001
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:  September 29, 1928
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

Plaque commemorating the work of Carlos J. Finlay, Claudio Delgado, Aristides Agramonte, William C. Gorgas, Juan Guiteras, and Jesse W. Lazear in the Centro Asturiano, Havana, Cuba,  1948

 Item — Box 77: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 54
Identifier: P7754001
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:  1948
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

Plaque commemorating the yellow fever volunteers and cooperating officials at the Camp Lazear National Monument,  December 3, 1952

 Item — Box 85: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 8
Identifier: P8508001
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:  December 3, 1952
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs relating to the Camp Lazear National Monument

Plaque commemorating the yellow fever volunteers at the Camp Lazear National Monument,  December 3, 1952

 Item — Box 83: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 57
Identifier: P8357001
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:  December 3, 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

Plaque commemorating yellow fever volunteers at the Camp Lazear National Monument,  December 3, 1952

 Item — Box 83: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 54
Identifier: P8354001
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:  December 3, 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

Plaque commemorating yellow fever volunteers at the Camp Lazear National Monument,  December 3, 1952

 Item — Box 83: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 61
Identifier: P8361001
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:  December 3, 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

Plaque commemorating yellow fever volunteers at the Camp Lazear National Monument,  December 3, 1952

 Item — Box 83: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 62
Identifier: P8362001
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:  December 3, 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

Plaques commemorating the lives of Clara Louise Maass and James [Jesse] W. Lazear, Las Animas Hospital,  1948

 Item — Box 89: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 45
Identifier: P8945001
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:  1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs relating to Las Animas hospital; Ciudad Militar (Camp Columbia); and Havana, Cuba

Portico of Segundo Cabo, Havana, Cuba,  circa 1930-1950

 Item — Box 81: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 60
Identifier: P8160001
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 1930-1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs of Havana, Cuba and its environs; General Fitzhugh Lee's Headquarters in Cuba; the U.S.S.Maine; and Hideyo Noguchi / Segundo Cobo, Havana, Cuba

Portico of Segundo Cobo, Havana, Cuba,  circa 1930-1950

 Item — Box 81: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 60
Identifier: P8160002
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 1930-1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs of Havana, Cuba and its environs; General Fitzhugh Lee's Headquarters in Cuba; the U.S.S.Maine; and Hideyo Noguchi / Segundo Cobo, Havana, Cuba

Post-Epidemic Disinfection,  October 11, 1897

 Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 25
Identifier: 01825001
Scope and Contents

This circular letter gives disinfection instructions to be instigated after a yellow fever epidemic. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 11, 1897
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Postcard from John R. Taylor to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 15, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 6
Identifier: 03906055
Scope and Contents

Taylor writes that he has been delayed in sending photographs to Hench.

Dates:  January 15, 1942
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Preliminary Report of the Special Commission on Yellow Fever for Colombia, by Joseph H. White,  circa 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 3
Identifier: 01103002
Scope and Contents

White's report states that the Colombian government accepts the existence of yellow fever in the country, and will pay half of the funding for the International Health Board's yellow fever campaign. It details the geographic locations of the disease.

Dates:  circa 1923
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Letter from Florence M. Read to Henry Rose Carter with report

Press release by Frank Carey,  June 24, 1950

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 04332001
Scope and Contents

Carey details the 50th anniversary of the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  June 24, 1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Principal yellow fever building, Las Animas Hospital,  circa 1900-1950

 Item — Box 89: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 17
Identifier: P8917001
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 1900-1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs relating to Las Animas hospital; Ciudad Militar (Camp Columbia); and Havana, Cuba