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Found in 2404 Collections and/or Records:

Entrance of Havana Harbor with a view of Morro Castle and some tents of the regimental staff of the United States Army 8th Infantry,  January 1899

 Item — Box 80: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 94
Identifier: P8094001
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:  January 1899
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

Entrance to Colon Cemetery, Havana, Cuba,  1899

 Item — Box 81: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 9
Identifier: P8109001
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:  1899
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

Entrance to Finca San Jose, Havana, Cuba,  1940

 Item — Box 88: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 99
Identifier: P8899001
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 to Carlos J. Finlay; various scenes in Cuba; Philip Showalter Hench's family; and ceremonies honoring Philip Showalter Hench and members of the yellow fever experiments

Entrance to Finca San Jose, Havana, Cuba,  1940

 Item — Box 88: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 100
Identifier: P881001
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 to Carlos J. Finlay; various scenes in Cuba; Philip Showalter Hench's family; and ceremonies honoring Philip Showalter Hench and members of the yellow fever experiments

Envelope from Lutheran Memorial Hospital to Philip Showalter Hench,  1951

 Item — Box 60: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 5
Identifier: 06005004
Scope and Contents

This envelope, printed by Lutheran Memorial Hospital, features a drawing of a proposed Clara Maass commemorative stamp.

Dates:  1951
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to Clara Maass

Envelope with Cuban Clara Maass stamp,  August 24, 1951

 Item — Box 60: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 5
Identifier: 06005008
Scope and Contents

This is a commemorative first day cover, which features the Clara Maass postage stamp and a drawing of Lutheran Memorial Hospital.

Dates:  August 24, 1951
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to Clara Maass

Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon and her husband in front of the bas-relief of Aristides Agramonte at the Camp Lazear National Monument,  December 3, 1952

 Item — Box 85: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 1
Identifier: P8501001
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

Estimate for the Financial Participation of the International Health Board in the Yellow Fever Campaign in Peru,  circa 1921

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 59
Identifier: 03059052
Scope and Contents

Hanson estimates funding needed from the International Health Board for the Peruvian yellow fever campaign, with the employees and salaries for the different locations listed.

Dates:  circa 1921
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence of Wickliffe Rose, Henry Rose Carter, and Henry Hanson

Excerpt fromDr. Walter Reed,  1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 55
Identifier: 02655001
Scope and Contents

This excerpt discusses Reed's medical work and gives a listing of each publication authored by Reed.

Dates:  1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Excerpt fromRural Sanitation in the Tropics, by Malcolm Watson, with an introduction by Henry Rose Carter, circa 1915

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 7
Identifier: 00807016
Scope and Contents

Watson discusses the possibility and ramifications of yellow fever spreading into Asia and the Indian sub-continent.

Dates: circa 1915
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Reports by Henry Rose Carter for the Surgeon General of the United States

Excerpt of letter from Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to Philip Showalter Hench,  March 14, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 42
Identifier: 03842010
Scope and Contents

Rodriguez Leon criticizes the sketches for the Cornwell painting, writing that they do not accurately depict Cuban settings and personalities.

Dates:  March 14, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench with Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon

Excerpts fromA History of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878, by J.M. Keating,  1879

 Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 28
Identifier: 03328003
Scope and Contents

Keating describes a 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee.

Dates:  1879
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letter from J.G. Woods to James E. Peabody with enclosed excerpts and transcriptions

Excerpts fromGeorge Miller Sternberg: A Biography, by Martha L. Sternberg,  1920

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 56
Identifier: 03056001
Scope and Contents

This document includes excerpts from Sternberg's biography of her husband's involvement with tropical diseases, including yellow fever.

Dates:  1920
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Expenses Incurred in Writing History of Yellow Fever,  December 7, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 4
Identifier: 01004020
Scope and Contents

Carter lists expenses related to writing the History of Yellow Fever.

Dates:  December 7, 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

Extension of Remarks of Hon. Schuyler O. Bland of Virginia In the House of Representatives,Congressional Record,  May 18, 1928

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 55
Identifier: 03155001
Scope and Contents

Bland speaks of the dedication of Walter Reed's birthplace, and recounts Kean's speech given at the dedication on October 15, 1927.

Dates:  May 18, 1928
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Extract from theAnnual Report of the Secretary of War,  1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 54
Identifier: 02654001
Scope and Contents

The report recognizes the work of Reed, Gorgas, Kean, Carroll, and Lazear.

Dates:  1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Extract fromDr. Osler's Address on "The Nation and the Tropics" and Dr. Finlay, by Juan Guiteras,  April 1910

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 71
Identifier: 02971001
Scope and Contents

This extract, by Guiteras, discusses Finlay's work on yellow fever and his association with the U.S. Yellow Fever Commission.

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

Extracts from an article by Albert E. Truby,  circa 1930-1945

 Item — Box 37: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 13
Identifier: 03713001
Scope and Contents

Truby describes his experiences and observations in Cuba from 1898-1902, focusing on Lazear's story.

Dates:  circa 1930-1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Extracts fromAn Account of Dr. Louis-Daniel Beauperthuy: A Pioneer in Yellow Fever Research,Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, by Aristides Agramonte andMosquito or Man?, by Sir Robert Boyce,  June 11, 1908

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 40
Identifier: 02940001
Scope and Contents

The extracts from Agramonte's article detail Beauperthuy's work with mosquitos as disease vectors. The extracts from Boyce's report [in French] also deal with mosquitos and their connections to yellow fever.

Dates:  June 11, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Facsimile of Walter Reed's diploma from Bellevue Hospital [original dated October 1, 1871], October 1, 1871

 Item — Box 86: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 47
Identifier: P8647001
Scope and Contents

The facsimile was produced by an unidentified person most likely between 1930 and 1960.

Dates: October 1, 1871
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs relating to the Lazear Memorial Building at Washington and Jefferson College; certificates and official documents associated with Walter Reed; and the families of Walter Reed and Jesse W. Lazear