Emile Cyrus Houle Collection, 1896-2010, (bulk 1910-1927).

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Emile Cyrus Houle Collection, 1896-2010, (bulk 1910-1927).

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Photographs, scrapbooks, and printed materials, 1896-2010 (bulk 1910-1927). This collection is comprised of photo albums, scrapbooks, loose photographs, and printed materials documenting the life and travels of Emile Cyrus Houle. The bulk of the material relates to his medical career as a surgeon for the S. P. de Mexico Railroad Company and USA Medical Corps in France during WWI, and archaeological excavations undertaken in Mexico and the American southwest. Working as a surgeon for the S. P. de Mexico Railroad Company on the west coast of Mexico from 1907-1920s, Houle was present for events related to the Mexican Revolution, which are documented in photographs, journal entries, and research printed materials in the collection. Well represented events include the Banquet Massacre of Yaqui Chiefs and the Imuris Incident. His medical career also included 13 months of service in the U.S.A. Medical Corps in France during WWI from 1917-1919 with promotion to Major, M. C., U.S.A, which is documented primarily in correspondences, journal entries, and other documents. Houles time in Mexico and the American southwest also allowed for a career as an amateur archaeologist with excavations in Ixtlan del Rio, Mazatlan, and Tepic, Mexico, and Nogales and Tuba City, AZ, among other locations. These archaeological excavations are greatly represented in two scrapbooks and loose items of mainly photographic material depicting sculpture figurines and rock art. The two scrapbooks include copies of a potential future publication documenting Houle archaeological career, with the inclusion of notes, rough drafts, and final versions of a five chapter personal narrative describing it. The narrative can be found in the printed materials. Apart from his professional careers, his personal life is represented in early photographs starting from 1902 and correspondences and photographs from later in life mainly during the 1950s and 1960s.

7.75 linear feet

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Goodfellow, George Emory, 1855-1910

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60s0q64 (person)

Physician; was assistant surgeon at Fort Whipple Barracks, Prescott, 1877, contract surgeon at Fort Lowell, 1880, then in private practice and coroner in Tombstone, Ariz. Later held positions as surgeon for various railroads, 1891-1910. From the description of Goodfellow papers, 1867-1975. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 37520203 ...

Houle, Emile Cyrus

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Emile Cyrus Houle was born June 5th, 1881 in Michigamme, Michigan and graduated, M. D., from the University of Michigan in 1904. Following brief stays at the Tamarack Hospital in Calumet, Michigan and the Mohak and Wolverine mines in Kearsarge, Michigan as Assistant Surgeon from 1904-1905 and 1905-1907 respectively, Houle became the Assistant Surgeon of the Sud Pacifico (S. P.) de Mexico Railroad Company on the west coast of Mexico in 1907 where he worked under George Emory Goodfell...