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Yellow fever

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2717 Collections and/or Records:

Principal yellow fever building, Las Animas Hospital,  1901

 Item — Box 89: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 18
Identifier: P8918001
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:  1901
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

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

Proclamation from the Alcaldia Municipal de Cienfuegos,  August 12, 1907

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 95
Identifier: N2895005
Scope and Contents

The mayor of Cienfuegos announces, in light of an outbreak of yellow fever, that all water containers must be brought up to code within 48 hours.

Dates:  August 12, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Newspaper accounts of yellow fever in Cienfuegos, Cuba and Magoon's administration of Cuba

Professional record of Henry Rose Carter,  circa 1920

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 25
Identifier: 01325066
Scope and Contents

The writer details Carter's career, ending with his mitigated retirement.

Dates:  circa 1920
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Miscellaneous notes and reports

Program for a radio performance of the playYellow Jack,  January 20, 1946

 Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 2
Identifier: 04102001
Scope and Contents

This program advertises the "Theatre Guild On the Air" production of “Yellow Jack” sponsored by United States Steel.

Dates:  January 20, 1946
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Program for the Homecoming-Founders' Day Dinner,  October 26, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 31
Identifier: 03631015
Scope and Contents

This program includes photographs and text concerning the yellow fever experiments, and Hench's autographed notes.

Dates:  October 26, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Materials relating to Founders Day exercises at Washington and Jefferson College, Washington Pennsylvania

Program from the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine,  June 17, 1919

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 47
Identifier: 03047001
Scope and Contents

This program includes a symposium on yellow fever featuring presentations by Noguchi, Elliott, Carter, White, Pareja, Lebredo and Guiteras.

Dates:  June 17, 1919
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Program from the University of Maryland Academic Day,  November 11, 1908

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 60
Identifier: 02960003
Scope and Contents

Welch is listed as having given a speech honoring Carroll. A bronze tablet memorializing Carroll was also unveiled.

Dates:  November 11, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Materials relating to James Carroll

Progress at the Hopkins, circa 1902

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 17
Identifier: N0417002
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Jesse W. Lazear consists of materials relating to Lazear that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1800 to 1956 with the bulk of the items dating from 1863 to 1943. Much of the series consists of the correspondence of Jesse W. Lazear and his wife Mabel H. Lazear. Jesse's correspondence dates from his time as a student at Johns Hopkins University to his death in 1900. Researchers can learn a great deal...
Dates: circa 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear / Statements made by George Miller Sternberg and Walter Reed in support of a pension for Mabel H. Lazear

Prophylaxis and Serum Therapy of Yellow Fever, by Hideyo Noguchi, July 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 13
Identifier: 00913001
Scope and Contents

Noguchi's paper on prophylaxis and serum therapy of yellow fever. Discusses isolation of Leptospira icteroides, as well as experiments, efficacy of serum therapy of yellow fever and vaccination against yellow fever.

Dates: July 1921
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Proposal from Philip Showalter Hench to the Mayo Clinic Publications Committee,  December 11, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 38
Identifier: 03838001
Scope and Contents

Hench makes a formal request to register the preparation of a book on the history of the conquest of yellow fever. He assures the Committee on Medical Education and Research at the Mayo Clinic that this work will not interfere with his research on rheumatic diseases nor his work on experimental jaundice.

Dates:  December 11, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

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 for Jefferson Randolph Kean,  April 1946

 Item — Box 64: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 6
Identifier: 06406001
Scope and Contents

Hench lists questions he has for Kean.

Dates:  April 1946
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-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

Radiogram from M.S. Lombard to Hugh S. Cumming,  September 14, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 3
Identifier: 01003015
Scope and Contents

Lombard reports to Cumming on a possible yellow fever case involving the death of a Spanish sailor at Mobile, Alabama.

Dates:  September 14, 1922
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Raquel Romero and her painting,  1944

 Item — Box 87: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 96
Identifier: P8796001
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:  1944
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs of memorial sites, busts, and illustrations of Walter Reed, Carlos Finlay, Jesse W. Lazear; stills from the movies,Yellow JackandJezebel

Raquel Romero's painting,  1944

 Item — Box 87: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 97
Identifier: P8797001
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:  1944
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs of memorial sites, busts, and illustrations of Walter Reed, Carlos Finlay, Jesse W. Lazear; stills from the movies,Yellow JackandJezebel

Recollections of Lena A. Warner,  December 7, 1904

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 36
Identifier: 02736001
Scope and Contents

Warner writes about the unreported side of the yellow fever epidemic, including her own experiences during an 1878 outbreak in her hometown.

Dates:  December 7, 1904
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