Correspondence files, 1927-1974.

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Correspondence files, 1927-1974.

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Chief correspondents are librarians Dr. Archibald Malloch, 1924-1949, Janet Doe, 1950-1956, and Gertrude L. Annan, 1956-1970. Topics discussed consist largely of routine library operational matters such as book borrowing, budgets, collections in the library, funding, and policies. Topics of note include wartime book storage, 1941-1942; Nazi war trials of physicians, 1947-1956, 1966; and sex books, including correspondence on the matter with Alfred C. Kinsey, 1930-1950.

9 linear ft., 11 file cabinet drawers (16.5 cubic ft.)

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Annan, Gertrude L. (Gertrude Louise), 1904-1993

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Gertrude Annan, a distinguished rare book authority and winner of the Marcia Noyes Award in 1967, came to librarianship fortuitously and never felt the lack of formal training. She enjoyed a forty-two year career with the New York Academy of Medicine, first as the developer of its rare book room, then as a reluctant administrator, and finally as Janet Doe's successor in 1956. She never lost her passion for the history of medicine and was a most fitting first Janet Doe Lecturer in 1967. Refl...

Doe, Janet, 1895-....

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Kinsey, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956

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George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) Alfred C. Kinsey, most famous for his work on human sexual behavior, was a world authority on gallflies, also known as Cynipidae or gall wasps. Kinsey began his entomological studies in 1917, eventually traveling to 54 locations in 36 states, and accumula...

Malloch, Archibald, 1887-

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New York academy of medicine. Library

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