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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Primary Collecting Areas:
American literature, antiquarian and contemporary, American history (Southeastern United States), Virginiana, British literature, Sporting books and manuscripts, World War I, Bibliography, the book arts, history of the book and typography
Fine press and artist’s books, Pop-up books, Victorian publishers bindings, Typography, Archives of the University of Virginia
Description:

The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library administers over 13 million manuscripts, 3.6 million items in the University archives, and 325,000 rare books, as well as approximately 5,000 maps, over 4,000 broadsides; more than 250,000 photographs and small prints; over 8,000 reels of microfilm; and substantial holdings of audio recordings, motion picture films, and ephemera.

The major emphasis of the Department’s collections are American history and literature, with additional substantive collections in Virginiana, British literature, African-American history, book arts, the history of sporting and World War I, among others. In addition, the library serves as the University Archives, holding records of historic significance to UVA.

POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Start Over Repository University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept. Subjects Tropical medicine

Official Report of the Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meetingof the Public Health Association, 1900 10 pages Box 21, Folder 52

This report lists the minutes of the meeting at the Public Health Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana. The First Day, Afternoon Session includes numerous papers on infectious disease and yellow fever, with a paper by Walter Reed. Included is a note by Hench.

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  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed, 1806/1955, bulk 1874/1936

Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974 67 Linear Feet 154 boxes

The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection documents the work of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, the legacy of the commission's discoveries, the lives of individuals who were connected to the commission, and twentieth century campaigns to shape public memory of the commission. Items in the collection date from 1800 to 1998, with the bulk of the items dating from 1864 to 1974. A wide range of formats are represented in the collection including, but not limited to the following: articles, artifacts, audiocassettes, bills (legislative records), biographies, charts (graphic documents), correspondence, diaries, editorials, interviews, journals (periodicals), magazines, maps, medical records, military records, negatives (photographic), notes, photographs, reports, reprints, scrapbooks, and speeches. Unique materials in the collection are supplemented with copies of original documents and photographs housed in other institutions (e.g. the U.S. National Archives). Most of the materials in the collection were collected or created by Nobel laureate Philip Showalter Hench while researching the history of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission.
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Philip Showalter Hench and others at the Fourth International Congress on Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Washington, D.C., 1948 1 page Box 88, Folder 18

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  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974
  3. Series IX. Photographs, 1846/1966, bulk 1870/1960
  4. Photographs relating to Carlos J. Finlay; various scenes in Cuba; Philip Showalter Hench's family; and ceremonies honoring Philip Showalter Hench and members of the yellow fever experiments, 1900/1960

Photocopied fragment ofPublic Health Papers and Reports, Volume XXIX, Presented at the Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C. October 26-30, 1903, 1903 71 pages Box 27, Folder 8

These selections from presentations given at the 1903 annual meeting of the American Public Health Association concern the scientific reception of the Yellow Fever Commission's work, particularly the etiology of yellow fever, quarantine procedures, and the discovery of the role of the mosquito. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed, 1806/1955, bulk 1874/1936

Program from the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine, 1919 4 pages Box 30, Folder 47

This program includes a symposium on yellow fever featuring presentations by Noguchi, Elliott, Carter, White, Pareja, Lebredo and Guiteras.

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  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed, 1806/1955, bulk 1874/1936

Prophylaxis and Serum Therapy of Yellow Fever, by Hideyo Noguchi, 1921 8 pages Box 9, Folder 13

Noguchi's paper on prophylaxis and serum therapy of yellow fever. Discusses isolation of Leptospira icteroides, as well as experiments, efficacy of serum therapy of yellow fever and vaccination against yellow fever.

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  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974
  3. Series II. Henry Rose Carter, 1880/1932, bulk 1883/1932

Questionnaire for an interview with Jefferson Randolph Kean, 1940 3 pages Box 62, Folder 84

Kean answers Hench's questions regarding the yellow fever experiments.

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  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974
  3. Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench, 1879/1960, bulk 1900/1954
  4. Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench, 1940

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