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Yellow fever

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2717 Collections and/or Records:

Script ofThe Heroes of the Yellow Fever Experiments in CubaforThe Shell Showradio program,  May 15, 1937

 Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 14
Identifier: 03414001
Scope and Contents

This radio show script on the yellow fever experiments includes an interview with Kissinger.

Dates:  May 15, 1937
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Scripts ofThe Heroes of the Yellow Fever Experiments in Cuba in 1900for theWe the Peopleradio program,  January 10, 1937

 Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03401001
Scope and Contents

This radio script presents a fictionalized version of the yellow fever experiments, and portrays Kissinger and Moran as heroes. The radio program was prepared and produced by Young & Rubicam, Inc. for the program, "We The People", for their client the General Foods Corp., to promote their product "Calumet", on January 10, 1937, from 5:00-5:30 on the network WJZ.

Dates:  January 10, 1937
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Scripts ofThe Heroes of the Yellow Fever Experiments in Cuba in 1900for theWe the Peopleradio program

Scripts ofThe Heroes of the Yellow Fever Experiments in Cuba in 1900for theWe the Peopleradio program,  January 10, 1937

 Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03401006
Scope and Contents

This radio script presents a fictionalized version of the yellow fever experiments, and portrays Kissinger and Moran as heroes. The radio program was prepared and produced by Young & Rubicam, Inc. for the program, "We The People", for their client the General Foods Corp., to promote their product "Calumet", on January 10, 1937, from 5:00-5:30 on the network WJZ.

Dates:  January 10, 1937
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Scripts ofThe Heroes of the Yellow Fever Experiments in Cuba in 1900for theWe the Peopleradio program

Sculpture commemorating the work of the members of the United States Army Yellow Fever Board,  circa 1900-1960

 Item — Box 76: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 23
Identifier: P7623001
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 1900-1960
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

Segundo Cobo, Havana, Cuba,  circa 1930-1950

 File — Box 81: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 60
Identifier: uva-lib:2230741
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

Senate Bill No. 1168, December 5, 1907

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 33
Identifier: 00433001
Scope and Contents

This is a bill for Mabel Lazear's pension. It credits Lazear with discovering the theory of mosquito transmission of yellow fever.

Dates: December 5, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Senate bill No. 6350, circa 1908

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 44
Identifier: 00444045
Scope and Contents

This bill grants an annuity to Mabel Lazear.

Dates: circa 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear / Letters and documents relating to a pension for Mabel H. Lazear

Senate Document No. 520,  April 29, 1910

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 73
Identifier: 02973001
Scope and Contents

This document describes in detail the appointment and work of the Yellow Fever Commission and includes an autographed note by Kean.

Dates:  April 29, 1910
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Senate Document Number 118,The Scientific Works and Discoveries of the Late Major Walter Reed,  1903

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 14
Identifier: 02714001
Scope and Contents

This document concerns the work of Walter Reed.

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

Senate Report No. 6009, James Carroll,  February 2, 1907

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 75
Identifier: 02875001
Scope and Contents

This report concerns James Carroll.

Dates:  February 2, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Should the United States Correct This Ingratitude?,  February 15, 1928

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 42
Identifier: 03142001
Scope and Contents

The author discusses the resolution brought before Congress to honor and to compensate all those who volunteered as subjects in the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  February 15, 1928
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Articles and pamphlets relating to pensions for participants in the yellow fever experiments

Site identified by Albert E. Truby as Camp Columbia,  circa 1900

 Item — Box 80: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 18
Identifier: P8018001
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
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

Smokestack from Building Number One with a photograph of Pedro Nogueira, John J. Moran, and Philip Showalter Hench in front of the building at the Camp Lazear site,  circa 1948

 Item — Box 91: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 1
Identifier: P9101001
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 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs of the Camp Lazear site and maps of Havana and its vicinity, particularly of areas associated with the yellow fever experiments

Spanish translation [from English] ofThe Historic Role of the Finca San Jose and Camp Lazear (Quemados de Marianao) in the Conquest of Yellow Fever by Carlos Finlay, Walter Reed, and Their Associates, by Philip Showalter Hench,  December 3, 1952

 Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 35
Identifier: 04435001
Scope and Contents In this speech, delivered at the dedication of Camp Lazear, Hench stresses the Cuban-American cooperation underlying the conquest of yellow fever. He discusses the Havana Yellow Fever Commission of 1879 and the choice of the Finca San Jose as an experimental site because of its yellow fever immunity. He describes Finlay's mosquito hypothesis and experiments, and the lack of support for his theory. Hench then outlines the work of Lazear and the Reed Commission, quotes Reed and Finlay, and...
Dates:  December 3, 1952
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Drafts ofThe Historic Role of the Finca San Jose and 'Camp Lazear' in the Conquest of Yellow Fever by Carlos Finlay, Walter Reed and Their Associates, by Philip Showalter Hench

Special Measures Against Yellow Fever at Ports of Arrival (Domestic and Insular), circa 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 18
Identifier: 00918005
Scope and Contents

The report outlines special measures to screen passengers, including quarantine procedures and possible hospitalization.

Dates: circa 1921
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Reports on yellow fever by J. Birney Guthrie, R.T. Perkins and Henry Rose Carter

Speech given by Philip Showalter Hench to the Rotary Club of Havana,  January 1952

 Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 15
Identifier: 04415001
Scope and Contents

In this speech, to the Rotary Club of Havana, [Hench] mentions his marriage, his admiration of those involved in the yellow fever experiments, and some of the people he has met through his yellow fever research.

Dates:  January 1952
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Materials relating to speech given by Philip Showalter Hench to the Rotary Club of Havana

Speech introducing Philip Showalter Hench to the President of the Lion's Club of Havana, by Felipe Carbonell,  January 1952

 Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 14
Identifier: 04414001
Scope and Contents

Carbonell describes Hench's investigations into the yellow fever experiments and the actual location of Camp Lazear. He praises Hench as a physician and a friend while advocating the support of Hench's plans by the Cuban government.

Dates:  January 1952
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Statement by Walter Reed concerning Jesse W. Lazear, January 11, 1902

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 5
Identifier: 00405001
Scope and Contents

Reed praises the service of Lazear and insists he died in the line of duty.

Dates: January 11, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Statement in support of Carlos J. Finlay and Aristides Agramonte for Nobel Prize in Medicine,  circa 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 62
Identifier: 02962001
Scope and Contents

The report argues in support of nominating Finlay and Agramonte for the Nobel Prize in Medicine. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  circa 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Statement regarding Walter Reed,  1904

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 37
Identifier: 02737002
Scope and Contents

Wood attributes the mosquito theory principally to Walter Reed. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  1904
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Miscellaneous materials relating to the military career of Walter Reed