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The 77th Evacuation Hospital collection contains unit records, official correspondence, personal letters, photographs, artifacts, videos, assorted ephemera, and documents pertaining to the unit's historical journal, Medicine Under Canvas.

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Small collection of subject course books and notes from Ada Breuninger, a 1937 graduate of the KU School of Nursing.

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Collection of materials from Andrew Leonard Skoog, MD, a 1902 graduate of Northwestern Medical College and KU School of Medicine faculty member in neurology and psychiatry from 1908 to 1928. The small collection includes lecture notes, reprints, and microscopic prints.

Scope and Contents Scrapbook compiled for Dr. Albert Lemoine, Jr., to commemorate his retirement as professor emeritus in 1987. Dr. Lemoine joined the faculty of the KU School of Medicine in 1947 and served as chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology from 1950 to 1980. He received the KU Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1986 and was the 1987 Honorary Alumnus of the Year of the KU School of Medicine. Dr. Lemoine died in 1994.The scrapbook contains biographical material, letters of...

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Papers of Dr. Albert Lemoine, Sr., a 1915 graduate of the KU School of Medicine and faculty member in ophthalmology from 1950 to 1954.

The collection contains medical school lab books and notes, reprints, diplomas, awards, and photographs.

Scope and Contents Scrapbook compiled by Dr. Alfred Hinshaw, 1933 graduate of the KU School of Medicine and Assistant Superintendent of the University of Kansas Hospitals from 1936-1942. The scrapbook contains news clippings about the hospital and its faculty members, photographs of the School of Medicine faculty and Bell Memorial Hospital house staff, and assorted personal correspondence. Topics covered include campus expansion, such as the construction of the Negro Ward (now Eaton building) in 1938, and the...

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Collection of materials from the Kansas Alpha Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Society. The collection contains correspondence with AOA founder Dr. William R. Root, member rosters, ledgers, Kansas Alpha Chapter charter and constitution,newsletters, speeches, brochures, and invitations.

Scope and Contents Papers of Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler, faculty member in surgery from 1907 to 1946. Prior to joining the KU School of Medicine, Dr. Hertzler served as professor of histology and pathology at University Medical College of Kansas City from 1902 to 1907. Dr. Hertzler attained worldwide acclaim for the Halstead Hospital he founded in Halstead, Kansas, in 1902, and for the publication of his autobiographical work, Horse and Buggy Doctor, in 1938. ...

Scope and Contents The Arthur L. Ludwick, Jr., Collection, which spans the years 1930-1987, consists of correspondence, official transcripts, newspaper clippings, and office ephemera. The bulk of the collection pertains to the University of Kansas School of Medicine, which Ludwick attended from 1932-1936. Materials from the University of Kansas include application correspondence, transcripts, and class reunion photographs and directories. The collection also includes an assortment of ephemera from Ludwick’s...

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The C.B. Francisco papers contain WWI orders and reports, correspondence, journals, published and unpublished manuscripts, medical school class notes, news clippings, and photographs.

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Papers of Dr. Charles Brackett, faculty member in the Department of Neurosurgery from 1952 to 1989. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, newsletters and clippings, reprints, and materials from the Department of Neurosurgery.

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Small collection of records of the now defunct Childbirth and Parent Education, Inc. of Kansas City. The collection contains correspondence, newsletters, teaching aids, published materials, convention files, questionnaires, and ephemera.

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Papers of Dr. David W. Robinson, faculty member in plastic surgery from 1945 to 1985, when he retired as University Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

The collection contains correspondence, photographs, biographical materials, awards, certificates, lectures, and assorted ephemera.

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The Don Carlos Peete papers contain correspondence, diaries, photographs, reprints, articles, news clippings, and ephemera.

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Collection of materials from Elda Hartung, RN, a 1935 graduate of the KU School of Nursing and faculty member from 1937 to 1955. The small collection includes correspondence, news clippings, photographs, Sigma Theta Tau items, certificates and diplomas, and assorted ephemera.

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Scrapbook compiled by Ethel Marie McMichael, a 1946 graduate of the KU Department of Nursing Education (now School of Nursing). The scrapbook documents her undergraduate career at Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science and her time as a nursing student at the University of Kansas, and contains news clippings, correspondence, photographs, and assorted ephemera.

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Collection of materials from George M. Gray, MD, an 1879 graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and KU School of Medicine faculty member in surgery from 1905 to 1936. The collection includes correspondence, news clippings, manuscripts, photographs, materials from St. Margaret's Hospital, and two bound volumes of case histories from 1914-1915.

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Papers of Gordon C. Sauer, MD, faculty member in the Section of Dermatology of the Department of Medicine from 1951 to 1993, when he retired as professor emeritus. The collection contains correspondence, slides, photographs, reprints, ephemera, and research and draft materials pertaining to his classic textbook of dermatology, Manual of Skin Diseases.

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Papers of Dr. Graham Asher, cardiologist in the Department of Medicine from 1932 to 1955. The collection contains manuscripts, reprints, seminar and symposium programs, teaching charts, and slides.

Scope and Contents Papers of Dr. Harry R. Wahl, who served as the fourth dean of the School of Medicine from 1924 to 1948, and his second wife and medical illustrator, Katherine (Kay) Bell Wahl. The collection contains correspondence, articles and reprints, photographs, diaries, certificates, and news clippings.Dr. Wahl's records from his tenure as dean of the School of Medicine and Kay Bell Wahl's medical illustrations from her appointment in the Department of Medical Illustration are housed in...

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Collection of materials from Dr. Henry Barker, a 1941 graduate of the KU School of Medicine. Collection contains subject course books, class notes, speeches, correspondence, biographical material, and assorted ephemera.

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Small collection of papers of Dr. Hugh Wilkinson, an early faculty member of the KU School of Medicine who served with the Medical Reserve Corps during World War I. The collection contains assorted materials from Dr. Wilkinson's service, including special orders, correspondence, certificates, post cards, telegrams, and photographs. The collection also contains assorted ephemera from Dr. Wilkinson's Kansas City, Kansas, practice, including office ledgers and certificates.

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Papers of June Miller, Ed.D, faculty member in the Departments of Audiology, Special Education, and Hearing and Speech from 1949 to 1983. The collection contains correspondence, awards and certificates, reprints, photographs, teaching notes and tools, souvenirs, scrapbooks, and assorted ephemera.

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Collection of course catalogs and assorted ephemera for several defunct Kansas City proprietary medical schools.

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Papers of Dr. Kermit Krantz, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1959 to 1994. Collection includes correspondence, reports, gynecological and obstetrical foundation meeting minutes, University of Kansas Hospital planning documents, planners, itineraries, subject files, notebooks and research logs, slides, manuscripts, reprints, videos, and assorted ephemera.

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Collection of scrapbooks assembled by the KU Medical Dames, a support group and social club for spouses of KU School of Medicine students. The KU Medical Dames organization was guided by an elected cabinet and advised by wives of doctors in practice and administration at KUMC.

In addition to scrapbooks, the collection also contains photographs, member rosters, and yearbooks.

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The Leonard Francis Peltier papers contain alphabetical subject files, articles and reprints, correspondence, biographies, awards and certificates, artifacts pertaining to the History of Medicine, and assorted ephemera.

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Papers of Leroy Calkins, MD, who served as chair of obstetrics and gynecology from 1929 to 1959. The collection includes lecture notes, postgraduate course materials, reprints, labor and birth statistics, and delivery room registers.

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Scrapbook and assorted ephemera of the Lunar Society of Kansas University, a medical student discussion group founded by Dr. Robert P. Hudson in 1955.

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The Mahlon Delp papers contain correspondence, manuscripts, reprints, notebooks, and slides.