Child Research Council Archives 1928-1966

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Child Research Council Archives 1928-1966

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Consists of annual reports of the director. Dr. Alfred H. Washburn was director of the Child Research Council from 1930-1960.

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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University of Colorado. School of Medicine. Child Research Council

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Begun as the Selmene Winter Foundation in 1922, the Child Research Council was formed upon reorganization and reincorporation in 1927. In 1928 it became affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine. The Council conducted the first multidisciplinary longitudinal study of child growth, known as the "Denver study" which extended from the 1927 through 1966 and studied 334 subjects. From the guide to the Child Research Council Archives, 1928-1966, (History of Medicine Div...

Washburn, Alfred H. (Alfred Hamlin), 1895-1972.

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Pediatrician and Director, Child Research Council, University of Colorado (1930-1960). The Child Research Council conducted a very important study of child growth. This study, which is commonly referred to as the Denver Study, began in 1927 and may have been the first long term multidisciplinary study of child growth and development. It served as a model for studies that began in 1928-1929 in Yellow Springs, Ohio (Fels Longitudinal Study) and in California (Berkeley Growth Study). T...