Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation

The Lasker Awards were given through the American Public Health Association from 1946 through 1960. The collection includes correspondence, nominee files, legal papers, minutes, jury materals, guest lists, clippings, printed material, and files relating to award winners. It documents the selection process, public relations, and presentation of the Albert Lasker Awards. Four-year accumulations of records are added periodically.

UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. Institutional and Lasker Award archives.

Jacob Ulmer was secretary of the National Foundation for Eye Research and served on the National Advisory Neurological Diseases and Blindness Council. Contains correspondence, memoranda, clippings, and printed material on ophthalmology, medical research, rehabilitation of the blind, and persons and organizations active in those fields in the United States and abroad.

Contains clippings, correspondence, and biographical material collected by the Lasker Foundation about Dr. Nathan Kline and his development of lithium as a treatment for depression and his other professional psychiatric pursuits.