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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2404 Collections and/or Records:

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: 15
Identifier: P8515001
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

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

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

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

Plaque honoring Walter Reed in Kings County Hospital [erected by the Association of Ex-Internes of King County Hospital],  circa 1901-1950

 Item — Box 87: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 70
Identifier: P8770001
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 1901-1950

Playbill: Yellow Jack,  October 25, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 31
Identifier: 03631006
Scope and Contents

This program is for a Washington and Jefferson College production of “Yellow Jack.”

Dates:  October 25, 1940

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

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

Postcard from F.A. Cooksley to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 9, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 6
Identifier: 03906042
Scope and Contents

Cooksley requests a reprint of Hench's article, "Conquerors of Yellow Fever."

Dates:  January 9, 1942

Postcard from Gilman, Son & Co. to Charlotte C. Sweitzer, March 11, 1903

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 19
Identifier: 00419001
Scope and Contents

The company will send Sweitzer a check for her transfer of claim.

Dates: March 11, 1903

Postcard from Gustaf E. Lambert to Albert E. Truby,  circa July 23, 1943

 Item — Box 64: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 1
Identifier: 06401126

Postcard from William H. Welch to Howard A. Kelly,  December 4, 1905

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 27
Identifier: 02827001
Scope and Contents

Welch provides journal article references on yellow fever.

Dates:  December 4, 1905

President's palace, Havana, Cuba,  circa 1902-1920

 Item — Box 81: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 44
Identifier: P8144001
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 1902-1920

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

Press Release from the Walter Reed Memorial Commission,  circa August 19, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 36
Identifier: 03136016
Scope and Contents

Clarence Porter Jones, Secretary and Treasurer of the Walter Reed Memorial Commission, appeals for necessary funds to complete restoration of Walter Reed's birthplace.

Dates:  circa August 19, 1927

Presupuesto Que Corresponde al Gobierno de los Gastos para la Campan a Sanitaria Contra la Fiebre Amarilla en el Departmento de Libertad,  circa 1921

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 59
Identifier: 03059055
Scope and Contents

This is an estimated budget for the sanitation campaign to eliminate yellow fever, prepared by Henry Hanson, the Director of the Sanitation Campaign.

Dates:  circa 1921

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

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

Program for the dedication ceremony for Walter Reed's birthplace,  October 15, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 36
Identifier: 03136004
Scope and Contents

This program lists events and speakers for the dedication of Walter Reed's birthplace.

Dates:  October 15, 1927

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