Lorin Edgar Kerr papers 1941-1981

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Lorin Edgar Kerr papers 1941-1981

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The papers consist of correspondence, statistical reports, and organization files, writings and printed matter, which document Lorin Kerr's work in the United Mine Workers Department of Occupational Health. Kerr's active participation in professional organizations, such as the American Public Health Association, District of Columbia Public Health Organization, and the Group Health Association of America, and his term as visiting professor at Howard University are also documented in the papers. The papers relating to the American Public Health Association, where Kerr served as president (1974) and executive board member are particularly voluminous and include correspondence, minutes, memoranda and clippings on occupational and environmental issues. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

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