Papers, 1925-1966.

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Papers, 1925-1966.

Contains professional and personal correspondence, lectures, research notebooks and reprints of articles written by Rinkel or his colleagues. Also contains audio tapes, motion picture film, photographs and lantern slides, some of which are illustrations from Rinkel's publications and lectures. The collection includes photographs and slides resulting from Rinkel's LSD experiments with the artist Hyman Bloom.

6 cubic feet in 6 record cartons.

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Bloom, Hyman, 1913-2009

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Painter; Cambridge, Mass. Born near Riga, Latvia in April 1913. Immigrated to Boston in 1920 and began painting and drawing classes, taught by Harold Zimmerman at a settlement house. Worked for the WPA in the early 1930s. From the description of Hyman Bloom drawings, 1927-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84557404 Painter; Cambridge, Mass. Born near Riga, Latvia in April 1913. Immigrated to Boston in 1920 and began paintin...

Rinkel, Max, 1894-1966

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Max Rinkel, 1894-1966, was a psychiatrist and consultant at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Boston State Hospital. He is probably most famous for his experiments with LSD and was the first to import the drug from Europe in 1949. His work also included research on insulin therapy and experiments which provided evidence that insanity could be caused by chemical disorders. From the description of Papers, 1925-1966. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 231039372 ...