Harold Wellington Jones papers, 1878-1958.

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Harold Wellington Jones papers, 1878-1958.

Army orders, photos, genealogical data, certificates, diplomas, documents, clippings, and some correspondence. Includes his scrapbook from the 10th International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy (for which he was Secretary-General), some information about the U.S. Army Medicine Library, letters and memoranda related to Edgar Erskine Hume, copies of articles published and unpublished, speeches delivered, and miscellaneous materials. Correspondents include Sir. Aldo Castellani, Harvey Cushing, Cordell Hull, Jefferson R. Kean, Warren Kelchner, Arnold C. Klebs, Archibald MacLeish, Charles R. Reynolds, Sir. Humphrey D. Rolleston, Henry R. Viets, and C.E.-A. Winslow.

1.0 linear foot (3 boxes and case items)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6825161

National Library of Medicine

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Austin, Robert B.

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Jones, Harold Wellington, 1877-1958

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Harold Wellington Jones (1877-1958) was born in Cambridge, Mass. He attended M.I.T. and received his M.D. degree from Harvard in 1901. He graduated from Army Medical School in 1906. He served with Pershing in Mexico (1914-16), where he organized the army's first motor ambulance company. During World War I Jones helped develop motor ambulances and commanded the Beau Desert base hospital in France. A surgeon, Jones served at Staten Island, Fort Stotsenburg in the Philippines, Fort Leavenworth and ...

Hume, Edgar Erskine, 1889-1952

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Army Medical Library (U.S.)

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The Army Medical Library began in 1836 when Surgeon General of the Army Joseph Lovell first established a collection of medical literature for official use. John Shaw Billings, the first Librarian, greatly increased collections and initiated the Index Catalogue. By 1936 the library held more than a million items and was considered one of the premier medical libraries in the world. From the guide to the Materials relating to the one hundredth anniversary of the Army Medical Library, 1...