Letterbooks of Dr. Charles P. Wertenbaker, 1889-1913.

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Letterbooks of Dr. Charles P. Wertenbaker, 1889-1913.

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The letterbooks contain correspondence and scattered articles and speeches concerning his efforts to combat yellow fever and smallpox, improve sanitation in the South, and reduce tuberculosis among Southern blacks. Correspondents include Rupert Blue, U.S. Surgeon-General; William S. Dodd and Hollis B. Frissell, Hampton Institute; James B. Dudley, North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College; Livingston Farrand, Executive Secretary, National Associationfor the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; R.A. Hubard, Vice-president, North Carolina Mutual and Provident Society. Morgan E. Norris, Lincoln University; Truman A. Parker, Executive Secretary, Virginia Anti-Tuberculosis Association; Charles A. Phipps, University of Pennsylvania; Franklin A. Sams, U.S. Marine Hospital Service; Senator Oscar W. Underwood; Surgeon-General Walter Wyman; Ennion G. Williams, Virginia Commissioner of Health; and N.B. Young, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College.

6 v. : ca. 900 items.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Norris, Morgan E., 1883-1966

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Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939

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Livingston Farrand was born in 1867 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University in 1888, and took an M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He was an instructor in psychology at Columbia University, and later adjunct professor. Interested in primitive psychology, he joined expeditions to the Pacific northwest with Franz Boas and others, and was appointed professor of anthropology at Columbia in 1903. Farrand was deeply concerned with public health ...

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Dodd, William S.,

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Wyman, Walter, 1848-1911

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U.S. surgeon general and physician. From the description of Walter Wyman correspondence, 1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981492 Physician. From the description of Letter, 1909, Nov. 6 : Washington, D.C., to the Secretary of the Cosmos Club. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35663783 ...

Dudley, James Benson.

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Parker, Truman A.,

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Frissell, Hollis Burke, 1851-1917

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Williams, Ennion G. (Ennion Gifford), 1874-1931,

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Virginia Anti-Tuberculosis Association

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Phipps, Charles A.,

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Wertenbaker, Charles Poindexter, 1860-1916.

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Physician and Officer in Command of the United States Public Health Service and United States Marine Hospital Service, Wilmington, N.C., and Norfolk, Va. From the description of Letterbooks of Dr. Charles P. Wertenbaker, 1889-1913. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136362 Surgeon in the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. From the description of Papers of Charles Poindexter Wertenbaker [manuscript], 1878-1916. (University of Virginia). W...

Blue, Rupert Lee, 1868-1948

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U.S. physician, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service between 1912-1920. From the description of Rupert Lee Blue letter, 1919, Jan. 10, Washington, D.C., to Dr. J.G.B. Bulloch, Washington, D.C. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847828 William Henry Welch, the dean of American medicine, presided over the Red Cross conference at Cannes, France in April 1919. Conceived by the American Red Cross, it had delegates representing Great Britain, Italy, France, Japa...

Underwood, Oscar Wilder, 1862-1929

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Oscar Wilder Underwood (1862-1929) served Alabama for many years in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Known best for his extensive knowledge of and authorship of a sweeping tariff reform act, he was also a Democratic candidate for president in 1912 and in 1924, which saw the longest convention in U.S. history. He has been described as a conservative politician who opposed suffrage for women, Prohibition, and rights for organized labor. Underwood was born on May 6, 1862, i...

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