Claudius F. Mayer collection, 1932-1955.

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Claudius F. Mayer collection, 1932-1955.

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Contains memoranda, drafts, reports, legal data, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials pertaining to the discontinuance of the Index Catalogue and the work of Claudius F. Mayer. Memoranda consist chiefly of communications between Mayer and Frank B. Rogers. Contains some material from Joseph H. McNinch and Harold W. Jones. File of general correspondence to Mayer (1932-48) includes letters from Percy M. Ashburn, Harvey Cushing, John Fulton, Fielding H. Garrison, Arnold Klebs, George Sarton, Henry Sigerist, Charles Singer, and A.S. Yahuda. Correspondence is arranged two ways: chronologically and by subject. Within the subject category, correspondence is arranged chronologically in order to retain the contextual thread of the material. Also included are a copy of an article written by Mayer and some miscellaneous materials which Mayer kept in his office.

0.8 linear ft. (2 boxes)

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Mayer, Claudius F.

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Rogers, Frank B. (Frank Bradway), 1914-1987

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Frank Bradway Rogers was the first permanent Director of the Army Medical Library. He also served as the Director of the University of Colorado Medical Center Library at Denver from 1963 through 1975. As a surgical resident at Walter Reed Army Hospital, he was offered the position of head of the Army Medical Library. He subsequently received a library degree from Columbia, and continued to instill the belief that a physician should be head of the National Library of Medicine. His tenure at the l...

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...