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Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946. Papers, 1891-1946.

Title: Papers, 1891-1946.

This collection contains chiefly correspondence, letters, diaries (ca. 1900, 1915-1944), lab notebooks (ca. 1900-1920), and drafts of articles and addresses. The manuscripts record or reflect almost every movement in the organization of medical science in the first half of the twentieth century and are rich in social, cultural, and educational history.

ArchivalResource: ca. 175,000 items (163 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154298158 View

Hubert Dana Goodale papers, 1901-1965

Title: Hubert Dana Goodale papers 1901-1965

In addition to correspondence relating to poultry genetics and egg production, there are significant notes concerning breeding records, heredity, and race genetics. There are 42 class notebooks kept by Goodale, and 62 volumes of Mount Hope Poultry Farm family, hatching, mating records for the period 1918 to 1956. The collection includes photographs, glass-lantern lecture slides, and artifacts of poultry feathers.

ArchivalResource: 27.0 Linear feet, Ca. 11,000 items

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Gowen, John. Recognizance bond, 1799 Dec. 23.

Title: Recognizance bond, 1799 Dec. 23.

Recognizance bond against John Gowen, Jonas Dawson, and William Anderson, of Greenville County, S.C., for monies owed the state of South Carolina on properties.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33018953 View

Genetics Collection, 1884-1971.

Title: Genetics Collection, 1884-1971.

This miscellaneous collection relates to numerous topics in genetics: cattle breeding (especially the American Jersey Cattle Club), longevity, radiation, International Congress of Genetics (the 10th, 11th, and 13th), Gregor Mendel, aid for refugee scientists, and the records of the Genetics Society of America (1947-1974).

ArchivalResource: ca. 1200 items (1.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122347488 View

Genetics Collection, 1884-1971, 1884-1971

Title: Genetics Collection, 1884-1971 1884-1971

This miscellaneous collection relates to numerous topics in genetics: cattle breeding (especially the American Jersey Cattle Club), longevity, radiation, International Congress of Genetics (the 10th, 11th, and 13th), Gregor Mendel, aid for refugee scientists, and the records of the Genetics Society of America (1947-1974).

ArchivalResource: 1.5 Linear feet, Ca. 1200 items, 1.5 linear feet

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Simon Flexner Papers, 1891-1946

Title: Simon Flexner Papers 1891-1946

Simon Flexner, born in 1863, one of the nation's leading experts in pathology and bacteriology, was most renowned for his research on cerebrospinal meningitis, polio and infantile paralysis. Arguably though, Flexner's stewardship of the Rockefeller Institute was his greatest contribution to medical and scientific research. His rise in the medical community began in the late nineteenth century in Louisville, Kentucky, where despite not having completed even the seventh grade, Flexner taught himself basic bacteriology by conducting experiments at home using a microscope borrowed from the pharmacy where he served as an apprentice. Granted a medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1889, he went on to a pathology fellowship at the newly opened John Hopkins School of Medicine. Within two short years of leaving Louisville, Flexner received an assistant of pathology appointment at Johns Hopkins. It was a quick ascent and the beginning of a long and brilliant career that included a prestigious appointment at the University of Pennsylvania and then a directorship at the new Rockefeller Institute where he realized his lifelong dream of creating a dynamic and productive research laboratory. The Rockefeller Institute became instantly famous worldwide as the preeminent research facility for virology and under Flexner's direction produced invaluable contributions in pathology, bacteriology, and immunology. This collection does not reflect the early phases of Flexner's career at Johns Hopkins but does document an early interest in meningitis and other infectious diseases with science-related correspondence, laboratory notebooks, and administrative correspondence with the New York City and State Departments of Health. There is abundant material on Flexner's directorship of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, including Flexner's search for staff, an involved process which is detailed in correspondence with the scientists, many of whom became quite famous. Also included is material relating to the other institutions and Rockefeller philanthropies with which Flexner was involved. (Among the most significant correspondence, however, may be that which documents the support of the General Education Board and the Rockefeller Foundation in the development and subsequent reorganization of medical schools following brother Abraham Flexner's scathing report on medical education in the United States and Canada). This collection would be of great interest to anyone interested in the history of bacteriology, histology, and immunology or the general history of modern medicine and philanthropy.

ArchivalResource: 115.5 Linear feet

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Goodale, Hubert Dana, 1879-1968. Papers, ca. 1919-1956.

Title: Papers, ca. 1919-1956.

In addition to correspondence relating to poultry genetics and egg production, there are significant series concerning breeding records, heredity, and race genetics. There are about 50 notebooks kept by Goodale, and some 62 volumes of Mount Hope Poultry Farm records for the period 1919 to 1956. There are also photographs and a box of feathers.

ArchivalResource: ca. 11,000 items (27 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154298169 View