American Lung Association of Virginia (ALAV)Collection, 1907-2004

Access and use

Location of collection:: University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

University of Virginia Health System

P.O. Box 800722

1350 Jefferson Park Avenue

Charlottesville, Virginia 22908

Contact for questions and access:: POC: Amanda Greenwood

Email: qkv8sr@virginia.edu

Email: jre@virginia.edu

Phone: (434) 924-0052

Phone: (434) 982-0576

Phone: (434) 924-5444

Web: guides.hsl.virginia.edu/historical

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Preferred citation:: The American Lung Association of Virginia Collection (ALAV), MS-3, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and Services, University of Virginia

Summary

Language:: English
Preferred citation:: The American Lung Association of Virginia Collection (ALAV), MS-3, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and Services, University of Virginia

Background

Scope and content:

The ALAV Collection contains personal and official correspondence, financial and legal papers, minute books, organizational and scientific reports, educational publicity, photographs, and artifacts. The ALAV Collection contains exhaustive information on the administrative concerns, educational and fund-raising activities, local level activities and regional offices, and the day-to-day operations of Virginia's key agent in the control and prevention of respiratory diseases. The materials in the ALAV Collection document the growth of the organization, as well as the input of a number of notable Virginians, from the early decades of the twentieth century. The ALAV Collection contains materials of use to researchers interested in medical history, epidemiology, respiratory diseases, and the growth of state and national organizations dedicated to public health.

FROM CHARITY HOSPITAL OF LOUISIANA AT NEW ORLEANS

PREPARED BY THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

CLEAN AIR ACT

INVITATION LIST TO LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS

DRUGS IN TUBERCULOSIS TREATMENT

DRUGS IN TUBERCULOSIS

PROGRAM OF WORK

EXCERPT FROM A LETTER BY R. WALTON MOORE, CONGRESSMAN FROM FAIRFAX

EXHIBIT MATERIAL

EARLY DIAGNOSIS CAMPAIGN

EXHIBIT MATERIAL

NEGRO ESSAY CONTESTS

EXHIBIT MATERIAL

JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTAL CAMPAIGN LETTER CONCERNING PUBLIC HEALTH

PROPOSED CHANGES FOR BLUE RIDGE SNATORIA TO BECOME BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL

INCLUDES A 1962-3 REPORT OF A STUDY ON TUBERCULOIS SANATORIA OF VIRGINIA

ISSUES CONCERNING THE PROPOSAL FOR BLUE RIDGE SANATORIA TO BECOME BLUE RIDGE MENTAL HOPSPITAL

ISSUES CONCERNING THE CONSOLIDATION AND CHANGE OF BLUE RIDGE SANATORIA TO A MENTAL INSTITUTION

+ 13 NEWSCLIPS

TUBERCULOSIS TREATMENT NEEDS, VITAL STATISTICS OF TUBERCULOSIS FOR EACH COUNTY IN VIRGINIA, DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE AND HOSPITALS ANALYSIS OF BUDGET 1954

NEGRO/BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN AND PUBLIC HEALTH, NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIAN PUBLIC HEALTH

NOTE THE TELLING STATISTICS CONCERNING BLACK TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS. ALSO NOTE THE DIFFICULTIES IN CONSTRUCTION FOR THE NEGRO SANATORIA, WHILE HOSPITALS IN FREDERICKSBURG AND RICHMOND WERE BEING CONSTRUCTED WITHOUT PROBLEMS.

5-D, 2-MEM, 2-TDS, 2-TELE, 1-MAP, 1-TDDFR, 1-ASC, 1ADS

1-ADS, 1-MAP, 1-N, 1-CARD, 1-ALS, 1-RPT

DOCUMENTS SHOW THERE IS A SMALL WAITING LIST AT PIEDMONT WHILE OTHER SANATORIUMS REPORT EMPTY BEDS

NOTE THE REQUEST FOR EXTRA BEDS AT PIEDMONT SANATORIA--THERE SHOULD BE 500 BEDS BUT AN ADDITIONAL 200 IS RECOMMENDED--A REQUEST THAT WILL CONTINUE FOR 20 MORE YEARS

NOTE THE EXPLANATION WHY NEGROES SHOULD BE CARED FOR IN THE NEGRO SEGREGATION AND EDUCATAION ESSENTIAL TO SUCESS IN CAMPAIGN LETTER FROM DR. STUART MCGUIRE

EXCELLENT DOCUMENT PROVIDING A PICTURE OF THE TIMES PERTAINING TO AGE, RACE, GENDER, TUBERCULOSIS, THE SOUTH, VIRGINIA AND HEALTH CARE

COSMETICS TAX DEBATED

TUBERCULOSIS IN VIRGINIA REPORT PROVIDES A PICTURE OF THE ONSET OF TUBERCULOSIS IN VIRGINIA COMPARED TO OTHER STATES IN THE NATION, TREATMENT AND NEEDS

EXCELLENT DOCUMENT PROVIDING A PICTURE FOR INFORMATION ON TUBERCULOSIS, CAUSES AND TREATMENT, RACE, AGE, GENDER, AND SOCI-ECONOMIC ISSUES

THE PROBLEM OF COSTS FOR HOSPITAL STAY, NOTE THE ONLY BEDS AVAILABLE FOR A NEGRO CONSUMPTIVE WERE IN AN ASYLUM AND PENITENTIARY, NOTE THE APRIL 1, 1915 LETTER TO DR. COSBY INTERESTED IN THE RESULTING ECONOMIC BURDEN OF A YOUNG COLORED WOMAN

NOTE: LAWS PROVIDE AN INFORMATIVE PICTURE OF HOW TUBERCULOSIS WAS AFFECTING THE STATE, TREATEMENT AND NEEDS

SHOWS ROLE AND PURPOSE OF VIRGINIA LUNG ASSOCIATION

NOTE THE INTERESTING STAFF DYNAMICS AT PIEDMONT SANATORIA REPORTED

ADVANCES IN MEDICINE AND CHANGES IN STATE DEMOGRAPHICS CONTRIBUTE TO A DECLINE IN TUBERCULOSIS CASES AND THUS CAUSING VTA TO CHANGE. DOCUMENT REFLECTS THE VARIOUS FACTORS CONTRIBUTION TO TUBERCULOSIS.

THE FEES FOR CHARITY HOSPITAL ARE INTERESTING

NOTE THE EMPLOYMENT SELECTION ADVICE FROM SKETCHLEY, JR.--A MAN...MOST QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB SINCE A GREAT DEAL OF TRAVELING MAY BE INVOLVED AT NIGHT.

1-RPT,1-CHART,11-N,24-DS,29-D,46-TLS. RECORDS REPORT STATISTICS WITH EMPLOYMENT AND RACE CATEGORIES.

NOTE THE RECOGNITION DURING A MEETING OF THE--TRAGIC INADEQUACY OF HOSPITAL FACILITIES FOR NEGROES IN THE STATE.

PROBLEMS WITH COMPLETION OF NEGRO HOSPITAL

THE 2O0 BEDS OPENED AT THE ENNION G. WILLIAMS HOSPITAL TOOK ALL THOSE PATIENTS ON THE WAIITNG LIST.

6-PHOTOS

CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE

ASTHMA, PATIENT EDUCATION, SECOND HAND SMOKE

CLEAN AIR, HISTORY OF TUBERCULOSIS TREATMENT

NURSING, SMOKING IN WORKPLACE, INFLUENZA, CLEAN AIR

NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIAN PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH CARE AT HOME, ATTITUDES TOWARD SMOKING, HEALTH EDUCATION

NON-SMOKER'S RIGHTS, HEALTH EDUCATION, ASTHMA

NURSING, CLEAN AIR

CHRISTMAS SEAL SALES, CLEAN AIR, NURSING

PUBLIC HEALTH CARE, CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE, MEXICAN AMERICAN AND PUBLIC HEALTH

CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE, SANATORIUMS, CLEAN AIR

PUBLIC HEALTH CARE, NURSING, CHEST X-RAYS

VIRGINIA YOUTH, CHILDREN AND SMOKING, PUBLIC HEALTH CARE

SANATORIUMS, PUBLIC HEALTH CARE, MEDICAL EDUCATION, STATISTICS FOR TUBERCULOSIS CASES, CLEAN AIR

POOR AND PUBLIC HEALTH, CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE, CLINICS

CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE, PUBLIC HEALTH CARE, CLEAN AIR

CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE, CLEAN AIR, PUBLIC HEALTH CARE

POOR AND PUBLIC HEALTH, VOLUNTEERS, TUBERCULIN TESTING, CLEAN AIR

CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE, CLINICS

PROMOTIONAL MILK BOTTLE COLLAR

OUTPATIENT RESEARCH

INCLUDES 1952 CHRISTMAS SEALS

ROX...SOX...NOX...A FILM ON THE ANATOMY OF AIR POLLUTION

KRIS KIT CHRISTMAS SEAL PUBLICITY NEWSLETTER

PORTRAITS OF OUTSTANDING AMERICANS OF NEGRO ORIGIN PAINTED BY LAURA WARING AND BETSY REYNEAU, ARGUMENT CONCERNING THE USE OF THE CROSS FOR THE SYMBOL (WITH CIVIL WAR REFERENCES), A FIELD WORKER'S APPLICATION FOR NEGRO FIELD WORKER

SANATORIUMS, MORTALITY FROM TUBERCULOSIS AMONG THE RACE STOCKS IN THE SOUTHWEST, MEXICAN AND INDIAN/NATIVE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH, PREDICTION IN NEXT DECADE FOR TB, CHRISTMAS SEAL, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENETION OF TB

A 1937 ARTICLE REPORTS 1,039 NEGRO DEATHS IN 1934 AND ONLY 226 BEDS IN SANATORIUMS AVAILABLE.DR. FRANK RYDER TRIGG, A NEGRO PHYSICAN VOICES THE NEGLECT OF NEGRO HEALTH, SOMETHING WHICH ONLY STATISTICS HAVE NOTED.

1942--..AS A MATTER OF PURE SELF INTEREST EVEN IF ONE WISHES TO DISREGARD ALL HUMANITARIAN CONSIDERATION, THE WHITES MUST ACT TO STOP THE SPREAD...OF TB AMONG NEGROES

6-PHOTOS

INCLUDES A 1920 BADGE/MEDAL FROM NTA 22ND MEETING

LOUIS FARRELL CRANE, MARGARET CROCKET, MRS. RUSSELL CUMMINGS

14-TLS

NORA SPENCER HAMNER, EDWARD HANNON, JR., MRS. J.L. HARDY

1-AD

1-C.D.S.

FASCINATING 1950 LETTER FROM PATIENT VIVAN RICKS

PIEDMONT BEGAN AS AN EXPERIMENT BECAUSE OFFICIALS WERE UNCERTAIN HOW BLACKS WOULD REACT. EMPTY BEDS AT FIRST. COMMENT--SUPERINTENDENT ASTUTELY REMARKS EVERY TUBERCULOSIS BLACK IS MORE OR LESS A MENANCE TO THE WHITES WITH WHOM HE ASSOCIATES..

SEE ALSO STATISTICS AND MIMEO FILES

AIR POLLUTION, REHABILITATION PROGRAMS, HISTORY OF TUBERCULOSIS

POVERTY, HEALTH, AND COMMUNITY ACTION, FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS, AIR POLLUTION, ROLE OF HEALTH DEPARTMENT

VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION

CHRISTMAS SEAL SALES

X-RAYS

SANATORIUMS

X-RAYS, TUBERCULOSIS

NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH, STATISTICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH

TUBERCULIN TESTING, TREATING TUBERCULOSIS

PAYMENT FOR SANATORIUM CARE, X-RAYS, QUARANTINE LAW, NURSING

CHEST CLINICS, MICONCEPTIONS ABOUT TUBERCULOSIS, TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS

CHEST CLINICS

HOSPITILIZATION, NURSING

SANATORIUMS

PUBLIC HEALTH IN PRISONS

SANATORIUMS

1-AN, 4-ALS

2-AN

2-ALS, 1-DS

INCLUDES A WPA AND NEGRO HEALTH REPORT

1-PAM

INCLUDES--AN ADVENTURE IN FAITH--A BRIEF STORY OF THE INTERRACIAL MOVEMENT IN THE SOUTH

INCLUDES A LETTER BY A MAN CLAIMING TO HAVE A NATURAL CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS

GIVES DESCRIPTIONS AND STATISTICS OF DISEASE ESPECIALLY GREAT TOLL ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

SMOKING

W.W. WENDT, ET AL.

1-AN

2-C.D.S, 2-ALS

1-PAM

INTERESTING REPORT ON THE CARE, STAFF, AND NEEDS AT SANATORIUMS

4-TL, 1-NEWSCLIP

5-PHOTO, 43-TLS

NOTE THE REPORT ON THE POOR CONDITIONS AT THE SANATORIUM

biography

Biographical information form

CVs, Biographies, Biography Briefs

letter(CV)

Biographical Information Form, Recruitment Pamphlet

CV, letter(CV), Biographical Information Form

Biographical Information Form

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letter, letter(Biography), Report(Biography)

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Resume

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Biography

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Letter(CV), President's Annual Report

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CV, Speaker Confirmation Form

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Biographies, Biography Briefs

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CV, Biographies

Monthly Editorial

Biographical Information Form

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Biographical Information Form, Questionaire to Board Members

CV, Letter, Biographical Information Form

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Biographical Information Form, Award Copy, Biographies

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Recommendation Letter(CV), CV, Letter

Biograrphical Information Form

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CV, Who's Who

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Biography

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Biography, Biography Briefs

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CV, Biography, Documents on the Seventh Douglas Southall Freedom Award

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Minute Book

Financial Book

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Secretary's Book

Financial Statements

Ledger Book

Payroll Book

Office Equipment Book

Account Book

Time Book

Reports, Letters, By-laws

Music Score, Journal Articles, Report, Pamphlet

Reports, By-laws, financial Statement

Pulmonary Function Test Forms

Pulmonary Function Test Forms, Letter

Pulmonary Function Test Forms

Brochure

Newsletters

Brochures

Pamphlet

Orientation Handbook

Report

Library Accession Book

The wood and metal engraving block is for Christmas seals made in 1963. It was donated in January 1992 by Judith Robinson. It has an artifact number: artifacts01797.

Mrs. Bozman; Sample smoking machine, VTRDA; "With his oxygen tank close by, John Lacy takes a look at Clean Air Week promotional meterials. Lacy has one lung and emphysema. He, along with two other representatives with lung disease, are speaking out against the danger of air pollution." "Albert W. Starkweather Brownville, New York, 13615, Burning peony tops, wasting humus and polluting the air."

donated by Karen Fankhauser, March 26, 2013

With photos, newspaper clippings, letters, and progress reports the 14 1/2" x 20" scrapbook documents the first five months in the campaign to reduce pollution by the Southwest Virginia Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, the Bristol Herald Courier, and the Bristol Woman's Club. They invited Senior Women's Clubs, the TB-RD Youth Board, the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, Lee Magdez, and the Boy Scouts.

With photos, newspaper clippings, letters, and progress reports the 14 1/2" x 20" scrapbook documents the second seven months in the campaign to reduce pollution.

certificate is signed by Mark R. Warner, Governor and Anita A. Rimler, Secretary

The topics of the clippings include smoking (health risks, cessation, smoking bans both pro and con); air quality; radon; SUPERKIDS camp; and fundraising activities such as a golf privilege card, Bike Trek, soccer game, and Christmas seals.

The six banners are titled: A Century of Progress, A Century of Tuberculosis Control in Virginia, Christmas Seals and Tuberculosis, Sanatorium Era, Chemotherapy Era, and The Work Continues. The exhibit was funded by a grant from The Tuberculosis Foundation of Virginia, Inc.

The four notebooks contain Christmas seals from (1) 1945-1989; (2) 1943-1991; (3) 1934-1997 and 1998 Valentine test and Easter fund seals; and (4) 1952-1961, 1963, 1965-1972, 1975-1987 and 1989-1991. The folders contain stamps divided by years. The earliest stamp is from 1927; the latest from 2014.

Biographical / historical:

The American Lung Association (ALA) is the oldest voluntary public health agency in the United States. The original name of the ALA was the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis (NASPT), formed in 1904 to combat the deadliest disease of the time. The name was changed to the National Tuberculosis Association (NTA) in 1918, and finally, with the decline of TB and the rise of other serious lung diseases, to the American Lung Association (ALA) in 1973. The American Lung Association of Virginia (ALAV) has been similarly renamed since its formation in 1909 as the Virginia Anti-Tuberculosis Association. Today, both the national and state associations are dedicated to the prevention, cure, and control of all lung diseases.

The American Lung Association is perhaps best known as "The Christmas Seal People." Since 1907, the Christmas Seal Campaign has raised many millions of dollars toward the fight against lung disease. In 1915, the NASPT launched the Modern Health Crusade, originally to involve children in the Christmas Seal Campaign. Any child who sold ten or more Seals was given a "Crusader certificate of enrollment" on which was printed a list of health rules such as "keep windows open" and "get a long night's sleep." Children who complied with these standards were "promoted" from squire to knight, then to knight banneret, and finally to knight of the round table. By 1919 there were three million "crusaders" in the United States. Two years later, the National Education Association recommended the adoption of a Crusade-like health education system in every elementary school in the country.

The ALAV Collection contains extensive information on the tuberculosis sanatoriums established in Virginia. When the NASPT formed in 1904, there were approximately one hundred sanatoriums in the United States; by 1910, there were nearly four hundred. One of the many sanatoriums built during this period was the Catawba Sanatorium near Roanoke, the first sanatorium in the state of Virginia. In 1908, Captain William Washington Baker (1844-1927), a member of the Virginia General Assembly, introduced a bill to reorganize the State Board of Health. The "Baker Bill" appropriated $20,000 "for the establishment and maintenance of a suitable sanatorium for consumptives." Baker had lost four of his six children to tuberculosis. For his pioneering efforts, he is justly called "the father of Catawba Sanatorium." Baker was also instrumental in the formation of the Virginia Anti-Tuberculosis Association (now the ALAV) in October 1909.

In 1918, the State Board of Health and the Negro Organization Society founded Piedmont Sanatorium as a rest home for African-Americans. Before its establishment, the only treatment facilities for African- Americans were the Central State Hospital for Mental Diseases and the State Penitentiary. Miss Agnes D. Randolph, Director of the Educational Department of the State Board of Health, requested in 1916 an appropriation from the General Assembly to build the sanatorium and purchase three hundred acres of land near Burkeville. The first building at the site was named in her honor.

Blue Ridge Sanatorium opened in April of 1920. The close proximity of the University of Virginia Medical School was a major factor in the government's selection of the Charlottesville area as the site for the new facility. The State Board of Health and the University agreed that a special course in TB would be developed for third and fourth year medical students, to be taught by the Medical Director of Blue Ridge Sanatorium and his staff. The city of Charlottesville donated $15,000 for the building project and promised free water from the city supply for five years.

An online exhibit created by the Historical Collections and Services staff of The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia recounts the origin and early history of the ALA. All of the materials featured in the Web exhibit (http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/alav/) are from the Library's ALAV Collection in Historical Collections and Services.

Acquisition information:

The American Lung Association of Virginia (ALAV) donated the organization's papers to the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library in 1990 and 1991, under the auspices of then ALAV Executive Director, Dr. Carl Booberg. Another large donation from the ALAV was made in 2009.

Physical description:

The extensive collection consists of 424 boxes, 50 are folio boxes.

Collection