Records. Parry, Leonard L.-Pasadena Foundation for Medical Research (inclusive), 1912-1967.

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Records. Parry, Leonard L.-Pasadena Foundation for Medical Research (inclusive), 1912-1967.

Correspondence, clippings, articles, advertisements, reports, and promotional materials pertaining to Leonard L. Parry, who manufactured a line of typical patent medicine cure-alls, 1914-1938; Partola Company, makers of a phenolphthalein-based laxative advertised under extravagant claims, 1912-1936; Walter (or Wladyslaw) Pas, a Chicago eye "specialist," 1930-39; and Pasadena Foundation for Medical Research, a California cancer research organization, 1962-67.

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