Papers, 1875-1938.

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Papers, 1875-1938.

Mary's Dunham's papers document her work with American Fund for French Wounded during World War I; New York Cooking School Hospital Committee, ca. 1910s; and American Red Cross on Mount Desert Island, Maine. Also establishment of the Edward K. Dunham Lectures at Harvard Medical School, and publication of Edward Dunham's research on Empyema. Important correspondents include physiologist Walter B. Cannon; Henry D. Dakin, English chemist; D.L. Edsall, Dean, Harvard Medical School; Simon Flexner; Graham Lusk; John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Henry Osborn Taylor; William S. Thayer; John L. Yates. philanthropist; Henry Osborn Taylor, author; William S. Thayer, M.D.; John L. Yates, surgeon.

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Rockefeller, John D., Jr. (John Davison), 1874-1960

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Harvard Medical School.

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Dakin, H. D. (Henry Drysdale), 1880-1952

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Lusk, Graham, 1866-1932

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Chair of Dept. of Physiology, Cornell University Medical College; author of THE ELEMENTS OF THE SCIENCE OF NUTRITION, 1906. From the description of Papers, 1891-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122527937 American member, Inter-Allied Scientific Food Commission, 1918. From the description of Graham Lusk papers, 1917-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867192 Biographical/Historical Note America...

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Thayer, William Sydney, 1864-1932

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Professor Johns Hopkins Medical School and chairman of the Mission's medical and scientific group. From the description of Papers pertaining to the American Red Cross Mission to Russia [manuscript], 1917. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647829389 William S. Thayer was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1898-1921. From the description of [Collected reprints of William S. Thayer.] 1895-1936 (Houston Academy of Medicine,...

Dunham, Edward Kellogg, 1901-1951

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Executive. Born, New York City, 1901. Financier and treasurer of Dow Estates, Inc.; active in Mount Desert (ME) community. Traveled extensively in the western U.S., Panama, the Caribbean, and Europe, 1920s-1940s. Married Nancy Yellot, of California, 1933. Children Edward K. Dunham, III, and Elizabeth Dunham. Resided in New York City and Seal Harbor, ME. From the description of Papers, 1909-1951. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 36835695 ...

Dunham, Edward K. (Edward Kellogg), 1860-1922

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Bacteriologist and pathologist; professor at Bellevue College, N.Y.C. Born New York City, 1860. Attended Harvard Medical School; researched cholera at Koch's laboratory in Berlin where he discovered the "cholera-red" reaction; worked for the Board of Health Commission in Boston and later became professor of pathology at the Bellevue Medical College of New York University. During World War I, he worked with Dr. Henry Dakin on antiseptic research and later was appointed ch...

Taylor, Henry Osborn, 1856-1941

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American Fund for French Wounded

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The American Fund for French Wounded was founded by American women living abroad to provide relief to wounded soldiers in France during World War I. From the description of American Fund for French Wounded records, 1915-1919. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122485635 From the guide to the American Fund for French Wounded records, 1915-1919, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

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Yates, John L., 1873-1938

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Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946

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Simon Flexner was a physician, administrator, professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901-1935). From the description of Papers, 1891-1946. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122535412 Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States d...

Dunham, Mary Dows, 1865-1936.

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Amateur artist and photographer, traveler, philanthropist. Born, New York City, 1865. Daughter of Margaret (Worcester) and David Dows, head of one of the largest grain deal firms in the U.S. at the turn of the century. Mary was disabled by polio as a child, yet quite active as an adult. Traveled in Europe, Western U.S., Bermuda, and Egypt, circa 1880s to 1910s. Worked with American Fund for French Wounded during World War I; served on the New York Cooking School Hospital Committee, the American ...

Cannon, Walter B. (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945

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Edsall, D. L

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