Records. Willard, Ralph Stanley-Williams Institute (inclusive), 1906-1948.

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Records. Willard, Ralph Stanley-Williams Institute (inclusive), 1906-1948.

Correspondence, articles, clippings, advertisements, and promotional material regarding Ralph Stanley Willard, a California charlatan who alleged to demonstrate his tuberculosis cure by "reviving" a frozen laboratory monkey, 1933-1941; the Al Williams Health System, a Los Angeles reducing outfit, 1936-1948; D.A. Williams Company, a Connecticut mail-order kidney-cure concern, 1906-1946; and the Williams Institute, a project of "Dr." R.H. Williams, 1928-1941.

8 folders.

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