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Strong, Richard P. (Richard Pearson), 1872-1948. Papers of Richard Pearson Strong, 1911-2004, 1911-1945 (bulk).

Title: Papers of Richard Pearson Strong, 1911-2004, 1911-1945 (bulk).

Contains correspondence files and related material concerning the Department of Tropical Medicine from the earliest years under the Harvard Medical School until Strong's retirement; and also documenting his teaching activities at Harvard and at the Army Medical School, scientific expeditions, World War I work as head of the Red Cross commission to combat the typhus epidemic in Serbia; reflecting his involvement in social clubs, international congresses, and professional societies such as the American Academy and Foundation of Tropical Medicine; his advisory work for the National Research Council Committee on Medical Problems of Animal Parasitology; and his service on the Massachusetts Public Health Council. Also includes material pertaining to Strong's research and writing, some family correspondence, personal financial papers, and diary and letters belonging to Strong's wife Grace Nichols. Expedition material contains considerable correspondence with Harvard associates, such as George Cheever Shattuck, J.C. Bequaert, T.R. Barbour, A.W. Sellards, and J.H. Sandground; with A. Hamilton Rice and other scientists; U.S. and foreign public officials; former President Coolidge; missionaries; and organizations, such as Rockefeller Foundation and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Also includes related financial documents, medical photographs and 1911 map, extracts from Strong's diary, supply and equipment lists, notes and manuscripts of lectures and reports, and other items about expeditions to Peru (1913 and 1937), Brazil (1924), Liberia and the Belgian Congo (1926-1927 and 1934), Guatemala (1931-1932), and the Yucatan (1931) to study and control diseases such as onchocerciasis. Papers about Red Cross work in Serbia include correspondence, notes and clippings, as well as correspondence and reports from the Conference at Cannes (organized by Strong in 1919), and other World War I reports, supply lists, and memoranda reflecting his research on trench fever. Other material reflects Strong's research on tropical diseases in conjunction with Boston area hospitals; consulting work for United Fruit Company; lectures at Lowell Institute, Boston. Also contains photographs from his work in Manchuria during the 1911 plague, from Manila and from Harvard; and early notebook of experiments, ca. 1899.

ArchivalResource: 69 boxes and 7 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281430035 View

Bequaert, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles), b. 1886. Papers of Joseph Charles Bequaert, 1902-1944 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Joseph Charles Bequaert, 1902-1944 (inclusive).

Includes diaries and notebooks from Bequaert's travels in the following countries: Congo, 1910-1915; Algeria, 1913; United State and Europe, 1920-1923; Honduras, 1924; Amazon, 1924; Brazil, 1924; United States, 1924-1926; Cuba, 1926; Yucatan, 1929; Guatemala, 1931; Colombia, 1936; and West Africa, 1926-1927, 1934, 1943-1944 (sponsored by Harvard). Also catalog, 1914-1915, of herbarium specimens collected by Bequaert; some correspondence; and diplomas and certificates.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76972962 View

Bequaert, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles), b. 1886. Letters from and to Luis Mazzotti, 1940-1949 (inclusive)

Title: Letters from and to Luis Mazzotti, 1940-1949 (inclusive)

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181162325 View

George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956

Title: George Sarton additional papers

Primarily correspondence of historian of science and Harvard professor George Sarton with professional colleagues about the journal Isis.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (23 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01643/catalog View

Bequaert, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles), b. 1886. [Catalog of herbarium specimens collected by Bequaert in the Belgian Congo, 1913-1915].

Title: [Catalog of herbarium specimens collected by Bequaert in the Belgian Congo, 1913-1915].

ArchivalResource: [120] p. : maps.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/229689050 View