Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine records, 1899-1992.

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Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine records, 1899-1992.

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Scope and Contents: Correspondence, minutes, reports, photographs, newsclippings, legislative records, and financial and budgetary materials document the life and functions of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Incorporated (GMITP) (1899-1992; 43.75 linear feet). Primary materials beginning with documentation on the founding of the corporation in Washington, DC on October 23, 1921, to its termination in 1992, describe the important role GMITP and the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory had in promoting education and conducting research in tropical medicine in Central America. The collection consists of original by-laws of the corporation, land deeds, minutes of executive and annual meetings and correspondence of GMITP presidents, board members and officers. It also contains published U.S. Congressional hearings on federal appropriations for GML, original documents on that history, copies of speeches and personal history on Surgeon General William C. Gorgas, for whom the organization was founded. Scope and Contents: The collection also consists of photographs of places, people and events documenting GMITP/GML affiliations with leaders of Latin American countries, developmental programs for scientific/research postgraduates in colleges and universities in the United States and in Latin American countries, and early exploratory trips to regions quarantined due to malaria and yellow fever. There are also scrapbooks on the Yellow Fever Commission, news articles and medical/health articles written from 1921-1930 by United States doctors and journal articles written by GML researchers from 1966-1885. A large collection of individual photographs may be found on GMITP/GML presidents and officers. There are some photographs with the signatures of President Herbert Hoover and President Belisario Porras of Panama.

43.75 linear ft. (48 boxes)

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