Papers of Henry Rose Carter, 1775-1947 (bulk 1905-1930). 1775-1947.

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Papers of Henry Rose Carter, 1775-1947 (bulk 1905-1930). 1775-1947.

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The papers include correspondence relating to Carter's work on yellow fever and malaria as a surgeon in the Marine Health Service (later United States Public Health Service) and notes for drafts of his "Yellow Fever, an Epidemiological and Historical Study of its Place and Origin"(Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company, 1931). Included are photographs of and clippings about Carter, in addition to a small collection of reprints and publications by Carter and others. Also included is the correspondence of his daughter, Laura Armistead Carter with Frederick F. Russell and other members of the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division, Wade Hampton Frost, of Johns Hopkins University, and others concerning her collaboration with Frost in the editiing and publication of Carter's book. The collection also includes a series of eighteenth-century to mid-nineteenth-century documents (e.g. plats, wills, indentures and receipts, 1775-1856) principally belonging to Carter's great-grandfather George Mason of Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties, Virginia and to Mary Ann Brown, sister of Carter's mother. Major correspondents include: Ronald Ross, Joseph Augustine Le Prince, Juan Guiteras, and Leland Ossian Howard.

4.5 linear ft. (7 boxes, ca. 600 items)

University of Virginia, Moore Health Science Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7632897

University of Virginia, Moore Health Science Library

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Frost, Wade Hampton, 1880-1938

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Ross, Ronald G.

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Howard, L.O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950

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Carter, Henry Rose, 1852-1925

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Rockefeller Foundation

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Russell, Frederick F. (Frederick Fuller), 1870-1960

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Mason, George, 18th-19th cent.

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Carter, Laura Armistead, d. 1935.

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Guiteras, John, 1852-1925

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