Robert B. Taft, M.D. Papers 1921-1945

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Robert B. Taft, M.D. Papers 1921-1945

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The Robert B. Taft, M.D. Papers, 1.75 cubic feet, 1921-1945, document Dr. Taft's career as a radiologist and "radium hunter". The collection contains three scrapbooks of correspondence, news clippings, and photos on his travels locating lost radium. The collection also includes correspondence between Dr. Taft and the Radiological Society concerning his attendance at their November 1941 meeting, as well as his papers published in the journal Radiology. Other correspondents include radiologists, physicists, and electrical and radiological instrument manufacturers. Also included in the collection are photos and negatives of Dr. Taft's travels around the United States recovering lost radium, as well as illustrations by Mercedes Hoshall for Dr. Taft's book, "Radium Lost and Found". The collection contains typescripts for two papers and a large volume of biology notes. Dr. Taft's 1932 radiological study of the Charleston Museum's Egyptian mummy is also included. The collection is arranged alphabetically. Printed materials from the collection have been cataloged separately. The following collections have been merged with MSS 309: MSS 310 Lecture Notes MSS 311 Radiologic Study of the Egyptian Mummy at the Charleston Museum

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Taft, Robert Burbidge, 1899-1951.

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Radiologist Dr. Robert Burbidge Taft was born in Charleston, S.C. in 1899. After attending the College of Charleston, he completed his medical degree at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina in 1923. Dr. Taft served on the faculty of MCSSC from 1936-1951. Dr. Taft developed a portable, battery operated Geiger-Muller counter, which he referred to as his "radium hound". He used the device to recover stolen and accidentally discarded radium. Dr. Taft was often called on to help hospita...

Hoshall, Mercedes Erixon.

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Charleston Museum (Charleston, S.C.)

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The Charleston Museum began in 1773 as a collection established by the Charleston Library Society. The Museum became an independent organization in 1915. From the description of Streets of Charleston (S.C.) : research notes, ca. 1930. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32139190 ...