Surgeon General photograph collection. 1943-1974.

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Surgeon General photograph collection. 1943-1974.

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Contains the following type of materials: photographs. Contains photographs of the following military organization: Surgeon General's Office. General description of the collection: The Surgeon General photograph collection includes a rather significant collection. It contains copies of photos used to illustrate the annual reports of the Surgeon General in 1973 and 1974. A set of photos from Tracy S. Voorhees which show portraits of general officers and several functions of the Surgeon General's office between 1943 and 1946. There is a caption sheet for this set of photos, but the photos have not been linked to specific captions.

1 box (61 photographs)

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7588636

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Voorhees, Tracy S. (Tracy Stebbins), 1890-1974

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United States. Surgeon-General's Office

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Born in Charleston, Massachusetts, David L. Huntington, 1834-1899, studied medicine at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the army as an Assistant Surgeon in 1862. Huntington was Acting Medical Director Army of the Tennessee during Sherman's march to the sea in 1864. A career medical officer, Lt. Colonel Huntington at times served as acting Surgeon General. He also was director of the U.S. Army Medical Museum for many years before his retirement in 1898. From the desc...