Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)

The collection as a whole is rich in material on the Library, its day-to-day operations, and its growth. Especially of interest are the summary histories in Box 1, information on proposed new buildings, merger plans with the Library of Congress, and the very thorough records detailing Mary L. Marshall's role in the development of the AML Classification.

Typescript notes about data in various libraries and repositories relating to the history of the National Library of Medicine, including its predecessors. Much of the material pertains to the period when John Shaw Billings was librarian.

Contains both a typescript, 105 leaves, and the manuscript copy, 200 leaves, of Toepper's History of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office.

Copies of letters and other documents written by and about John Shaw Billings held by the National Archives.

Primarily consists of Billings' correspondence during his time as head of the Library of the Surgeon General (1868-1895). Also includes some biographical information, a collection of Billings' reprints, speech texts, scrapbooks, and clippings.

When John Shaw Billings left the Army in 1895 to become first a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and shortly thereafter the director of the New York Public Library, he took with him many of his personal and professional papers.

Invoices for items purchased for the Surgeon-General's Office.

Official papers of the Library for the years Walter Drew McCaw served as librarian.

Contains official papers of the Library for the years that Champe C. McCulloch was librarian.

The head of the Museum and Library Division's official correspondence from 1897 to 1903.