Otis B. Wight Base Hospital 46 glass plate negative collection, 1918-1919. [1918-1919].

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Otis B. Wight Base Hospital 46 glass plate negative collection, 1918-1919. [1918-1919].

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The collection consists of two sets of glass plate silver bromide negatives. The images are of Base Hospital 46 and staff. The photographs were taken in Bazoil-les-sur-Meuse, France during World War I. The plates were housed in the original printed cardboard boxes, which measure 13 cm x 18 cm. The boxes identify the plate manufacturer as J. Jougla of Lumiere & Jougla. The photographic method is identified as "plaques a mode bromure d'argent," or silver bromide plates. One plate is broken. The plates are not labeled but are identified in: On active service with Base Hospital 46 U.S.A.: Mar. 20, 1918 to May 25, 1919 / edited by O.B. Wight, et al. Portland, Or.: Arcady Press, 1920,

0.5 linear ft. (1 box)

Oregon Health & Science University Library, OHSU Library

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Oregon Health & Science University Library, OHSU Library

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United States. Army Medical Service. 46th Base Hospital.

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Wight, O. B.

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Otis B. Wight was born on May 28, 1877, in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1898 and graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1902. He was commissioned as a Captain in the armed forces on December 2, 1917. His first assignment in 1918 was to mobilize enlisted men to staff the Base Hospital 46. Base Hospital 46 was the University of Oregon Medical School-organized contingent of volunteer medical personnel. He went first to Camp Lewis, Washington, where he was ...

University of Oregon. Medical School

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George Earle Chamberlain (b.1913), grandson and namesake of the former governor and senator of Oregon, son of otolaryngologist Dr. Charles Thomson Chamberlain. He received a BA from the University of Oregon in 1936, and an MD from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1938. Chamberlain served as captain and resident physician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during WWII. He began serving in 1941, when he was stationed in New York, N. Y.,at the New York Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Infirmary. He ...