Dorothy M. Schullian Travel Notes 1955-1987

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Dorothy M. Schullian Travel Notes 1955-1987

Typescript notes about data in various libraries and repositories relating to the history of the National Library of Medicine, including its predecessors. Much of the material pertains to the period when John Shaw Billings was librarian.

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Armed Forces Medical Library (U.S.)

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Claudius F. Mayer was born in Eger, Hungary in 1899. He earned his M.D. in 1925 at the Royal Hungarian Pazmany Peter University in Budapest. From 1925 to 1930 he worked as a pathologist and intern at the University of Budapest and Hospital of National Institute for Social Insurance. From 1928 to 1930 at Budapest's Ministry of Health, Museum for Public Health and Sociology, Mayer began working as a consultant in medical history and bibliography. He moved to the United States and was medical direc...

Schullian, Miss Dorothy M.

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Dorothy Schullian was a librarian with the Army Medical Library. She researched and wrote about many aspects of the history of medicine. From the description of Dorothy M. Schullian travel notes, 1955-1987. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14311794 From the guide to the Dorothy M. Schullian Travel Notes, 1955-1987, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine) Historian of science, librarian. Dorothy M. Schu...

National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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In the 1870s the Surgeon General's library occupied space in Ford's theater in Washington, D.C. Beginning in 1872 library officials began seeking legislative funding and approval for a proper building. Concerted efforts during the 1880s won approval for a new building at 7th and Independence, which was occupied in 1887. In the 1910s, having outgrown this facility, the library began requesting another new building. These attempts failed until 1938, when a new Armed Forces Medical Library building...

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Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913

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U. S. Army surgeon and founder of the Army Medical Library. From the description of John Shaw Billings letters, 1891, Apr. 13 and May 13, New York City, to W.R. Benjamin. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34992422 1860. Graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, with A.B., M.A. From the description of General correspondence June 1862-Oct. 1901 [microform]. (Alma Public Library). WorldCat record id: 7883610 The Adjutant General of the Army had re...