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Rhoads, Jonathan E. Papers, 1802-2002 (bulk 1934-2002)

Title: Papers, 1802-2002 (bulk 1934-2002)

This massive collection documents the life and work of Jonathan Evans Rhoads in multiple dimensions and through all major periods of his 94 long years of career. The first series represents his personal and family experiences. It consists of five sub-series including his personal and biographical material; correspondence and other records related to his family members; files of his social interest and participation in activities not directly related to his professional interest; traveling material; as well as his financial records. This sub-series also includes a group of 39 audio cassettes of interviews done in the preparation of a biography of Rhoads that continued from 1992 to 1996. The second series documents all aspects of Rhoads' professional activities as a surgeon, medical faculty and a senior university administrator. The bulk of the correspondence sub-series reflects his communication with hundreds of individuals or institutions on all kinds of subjects of mutual professional interests. Among his correspondents are Clyde Barker, Baruch Blumberg, Britton Chance, David Y. Cooper, Stanley J. Dudrick, Loren C. Eiseley, Claire Fagin, William T. Fitts, Jr., Gaylord P. Harnwell, C. Everett Koop, Leonard D. Miller, Francis D. Moore, I.S. Ravdin, Louis Silverstein, and the United States House of Representatives and Senate. Included in this sub-series is also a litigation file related to a case between a chordoma patient and physicians of the surgical department of the University Hospital. The sub-series of Administrative files comprises mainly correspondence and other files in relation to his leadership for the Department of Surgery, the University Hospital, the Medical Board, the Harrison Department of Surgical Research, the Penn School of Medicine and the general administration of the University. Also included are files from 1938 to 1979 that reflect the significant amount of work Rhoads did at the Pennsylvania Hospital. The Teaching files include instructional schedules, course syllabus and lecture notes for various classes and programs in which Rhoads participated as a senior faculty. The Research files include records of two major research projects sponsored by the National Research Council--the Adhesions study and the Burns project--as well as relevant reference material. This sub-series also includes some correspondence between Rhoads and his patients, his operating notes, and other patient records. The Professional meetings sub-series documents meetings sponsored by various institutions which Rhoads attended. Also included in this sub-series are records of his being invited as visiting professor to lecture to medical schools across the continent of North America. The Addresses, manuscripts and publishing files consist of material of five different categories of presentations and publications. There are hundreds of addresses and presentations Rhoads was invited to make on all kinds of subjects or occasions; remarks he made at over a dozen memorial services in honor of his deceased friends and colleagues; manuscripts, finished or unfinished, as well as draft outlines and notes on various topics; correspondence related to publishing matters; and finally, reprints of some 400 published articles. Rhoads' leadership and participation in all major medical and other professional institutions of national and international reputations is best represented in the sub-series IIG, the files of Professional Organizations. Substantially represented in this sub-series are files of such leading organizations of medicine and medical sciences as American Association for Cancer Research (38 folders), American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (42), American Cancer Society (320), American College of Surgeons (360), American Medical Association (44), American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (78), American Surgical Association (143), American Trauma Society (168), Annals of Surgery (139), Association of American Medical Colleges (88), Cancer journal (137), College of Physicians of Philadelphia (140), General Motors Cancer Research Foundation (119), Institute of Medicine (43), International Federation of Surgical Colleges (377), International Society of Surgery (52), International Surgical Group (45), National Cancer Advisory Board (182), National Cancer Institute (34), National Institute of General Medial Sciences (45), National Institutes of health (38), National Research Council (264), Pennsylvania Medical Society (46), Philadelphia County Medical Society (102), Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (47), Society of Clinical Surgery (53), Society of University Surgeons (70), etc. Also represented in this sub-series are the following major professional organizations: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Board of Surgery, American College of Physicians, American College of Radiology, American Physiological Society, American Society for Clinical Nutrition, American Society of Nutritional Support Services, Association for Academic Surgery, Association of Community Cancer Centers, Children Hospital of Philadelphia, Coriell Institute for Medical Research, Council of Medical Specialty Society, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Halsted Society, Health Systems Agency for Southeastern Pennsylvania Steering Committee, International Cancer Congress, International Congress of Nutrition, International Union Against Cancer, James Ewing Society, James IV Association of Surgeons, John Morgan Society, John Rhea Barton Surgical Research Foundation, John Scott Award Advisory Committee, Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association, (to be continued) (to continue) Life Insurance Medical Research Fund, Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, National Academy of Sciences, National Library of Medicine, Pan-Pacific Surgical Association, Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia Health Management Corporation, Philadelphia Professional Standard Review Organization, Ravdin-Rhoads Surgical Society, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Society of Surgical Oncology, Surgeons Travel Club, Surgical Infection Society, Surgical Travel Club, U.S. National Committee for the International Union Against Cancer, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, United States Public Health Service, Veterans Administration, Wistar Association, Working Group on Disability in U.S. Presidents, World Health Organization, etc. Rhoads' extra-curricula interest is fully documented in Series III of Civic Organizations. Main entries in this sub-series are files of the following institutions: American Friends Service Committee (19 folders), American Philosophical Society (374), Bryn Mawr College (68), Buckingham Mountain Foundation (96), Cosmos Club (23), Friends Hospital (130), Germantown Friends School (104), Haverford College (242), Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Foundation (148), Pennwalt Corporation (21), Philadelphia Public Health Advisory Commission (16), Philadelphia School District (73), Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (65), Westtown School (65). Also to be found in this sub-series are files of John Scott Award Advisory Committee, Thomas B. and Jeannette E. Laws McCabe Fund, and Philadelphia Traffic Court Committee. The fourth series consists of awards and cirtificates of recognition given to Rhoads in appreciation of his distinguished services in various fields. Series V comprises photographs, including both Rhoads' portraits and group pictures taken at professional meetings or other social functions; audio-visual tapes; issues of ISIS journal and other memorabilia items Rhoads collected. Series VI consists of a large number of architectural drawings of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania prepared in the period of 1968-1973. Series VII are papers of Theresa Rhoads, mostly her correspondence and research files when she was working at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the 1930s and 1940s.

ArchivalResource: 273 Cubic ft.

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Davidson, Thomas, 1840-1900. Thomas Davidson papers, 1857-1948 (inclusive), 1857-1902 (bulk).

Title: Thomas Davidson papers, 1857-1948 (inclusive), 1857-1902 (bulk).

Correspondence, lectures, articles, printed matter, clippings, and film relating to the career of Davidson who came to the U.S. in 1867 and was associated with the St. Louis and Concord schools of philosophy, the founding of the Fellowship of the New Life, and the establishment of the Breadwinners' College. From 1878 to 1884, he was in Italy studying the writings of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, about whom he published a study in 1882. The major portion of the papers is made up of correspondence, including letters from Henry Adams, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Stuart Mill, and Stephen Samuel Wise. Only a few pages of his diary of 1858 survive. Also with the papers is material from Edward Endelman, a student of Davidson's. Of particular interest is Endelman's correspondence about Davidson with William T. Harris, a Hegelian philosopher who had been a close friend of Davidson's. In addition, two reels of microfilm collected by John Roemischer which contain letters and articles by Davidson in other repositories have been added to the papers.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear ft. (35 boxes)

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Dixon, Frank M. (Frank Murray), 1892-1965. Papers, 1924-1965.

Title: Papers, 1924-1965.

Papers, 1924-1965, consisting of correspondence, letters, telegrams, memoranda, advertisements, speeches, clippings, photographs, minutes, platforms, resolutions, lists, reports, receipts, budgets, scrapbooks, maps, and published materials. These papers center on the political life, and to a lesser extent, the personal life of Dixon. The political life of Dixon is particularly well documented, including his two campaigns for the governor's office of Ala. in 1934 and 1938, and his involvement in the Dixiecrat movement from 1948 into the 1950's. Correspondence and letters, numerous speeches, and campaign materials, all describe Dixon's and many others activities in great detail. His personal life, particularly his membership in various clubs and organizations, is also well documented, especially his activities in the American Bar Association and the Redstone Club of Birmingham, Ala. There are also several speeches and some campaign literature that document Bibb Graves' campaign for governor in 1934. Among the prominent correspondents with a significant amount of material in the Dixon papers are: Governors Homer M. Adkins of Ark.; Ellis Arnall of Ga.; Ross B. Barrett of Miss.; J. Melville Broughton of N.C.; James E. Folsom of Ala.; Spessard L. Holland of Fla.; Paul B. Johnson of Miss.; Sam H. Jones of La.; Robert S. Kerr of Okla.; Thomas E. Kilby of Ala.; Ben Laney of Ark.; John Patterson and Gordon Persons of Ala.; Leverett Saltonstall of Mass.; Chauncey Sparks of Ala.; J. Strom Thurmond of S.C.; William M. Tuck of Va.; George C. Wallace of Ala., and Fielding Wright of Miss.; U. S. Senators include: John H. Bankhead, Owen Brewster, Harry F. Byrd, James O. Eastland, Walter F. George, Lister Hill, Spessard L. Holland, and John Sparkman. U.S. Representatives include: George W. Andrews, Laurie C. Battle, Frank W. Boykin, George Grant, Sam Hobbs, George Huddleston, Robert E. Jones, and Albert Rains. Ala. politicians include: G. Claiborne Blanton, Albert Boutwell, Frank R. Broadway, C.J. Coley, Eugene "Bull" Connor, Sam Englehardt, Walter Givhan, Walter B. Jones, Thomas S. Lawson, Norvelle R. Leigh, Jr.; Gessner T. McCorvey, Ed Leigh McMillan, Albert Patterson, Marion Rushton, and Horace C. Wilkinson. Prominent newspapermen include: Tom Abernethy of the Talladega Daily Home; Harry M. Ayers of The Anniston Star; Virginius Dabney of the Richmond Times-Dispatch; John Temple Graves of the Birmingham Age-Herald; Grover C. Hall, Jr., of the Montgomery Advertiser; Horace Hall of The Dothan Eagle; Clarence and Victor Hanson of The Birmingham News; Barrett C. Shelton of the Decatur Daily News; Cash M. Stanley of the Montgomery Advertiser; and Earl L. Tucker of the Thomasville Times. There are many other prominent correspondents as well.

ArchivalResource: 6 cubic ft. (5 records center cartons; 1 card index box for 3x5 cards; one oversized box; and 3 oversized folders).

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