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Box 1

 Container

Contains 21 Results:

Letter from Post Adjutant, Headquarters, Principal Depot, General Recruiting Service, United States Army, Fort Columbus, N.Y.H., 1875 March 25

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 9803059X11
Scope and Contents

Relieves A.H. Hoff from duty as Depot Treasurer and Librarian and orders him to turn over property and funds to successor.

Dates: 1875 March 25

Letter to Dr. Hoff, U.S.A. from George Tiemann & Co., No. 67 Chatham Street, New York City, 1876 June 29

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: 9803059X12
Scope and Contents

Reports comments of Professor Howard of Baltimore on automatic needle carrier and needles and says Professor Howard was probably the first to use the new instrument with success.

Dates: 1876 June 29

Copy of letter from C.H. Crane. Asst. Surgeon General. U.S. Army, to Surgeon Jos. B. Brown U.S. Army, President, Army Medical Board, New York City, N.Y., 1876 July 14

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: 9803059X13
Scope and Contents

Directs that Assistant Surgeon A.H. Hoff be examined for promotion.

Dates: 1876 July 14

Contents of Dr. Hoff's pocket case, 1850-1861

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: 9803059X14
Collection Summary From the Collection: Contains correspondence, drawings, photographs, and background documents on Hoff's military service during the Civil War. Includes discussion on the need for amputations, the use of calomel, the use of hospital ships (especially the D.A. January and the J.K. Barnes) for the transportation of the sick and wounded, and biographical information on Hoff. Correspondents include Alden March, John Shaw...
Dates: 1850-1861

Letter to Editor of the American Medical Times from Dr. Alden March, quoting parts of letter of Dr. Alex. H. Hoff to Dr. March and suggesting that the Editor publish it in the American Medical Times, 1862 December 20

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: 9803059X15
Collection Summary From the Collection: Contains correspondence, drawings, photographs, and background documents on Hoff's military service during the Civil War. Includes discussion on the need for amputations, the use of calomel, the use of hospital ships (especially the D.A. January and the J.K. Barnes) for the transportation of the sick and wounded, and biographical information on Hoff. Correspondents include Alden March, John Shaw...
Dates: 1862 December 20

Letter from E. B. French to Alexander Hoff (November 25, 1875); extract from report of a board of medical officers (September 2, 1875); eulogy of Dr. Hoff by Dr. J. L. Babcock (November 14, 1876); salary payment for Dr. Hoff (July 1876), 1875-1876

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: 9803059X16
Collection Summary From the Collection: Contains correspondence, drawings, photographs, and background documents on Hoff's military service during the Civil War. Includes discussion on the need for amputations, the use of calomel, the use of hospital ships (especially the D.A. January and the J.K. Barnes) for the transportation of the sick and wounded, and biographical information on Hoff. Correspondents include Alden March, John Shaw...
Dates: 1875-1876

Photograph of Alexander Hoff; biographical speech about Alexander Hoff by his son John Van Rensselaer Hoff, at presentation of Hoff Memorial Medal to best student in the Army Medical School. Read at Graduating Exercises of the school in Washington, undated; May 31, 1912

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Identifier: 9803059X17
Scope and Contents

Two photographs of man with mustache and in uniform with photographer given at bottom: Hofsteater, Vancouver, Wash.

Dates: undated; May 31, 1912

Letter from C.H. Alden, Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Army to Major J. Van R. Hoff, Vancouver Barracks, Washington (November 5, 1897) about the setting up of a prize in memory of Alexander H. Hoff; Letter from C. H. Alden, Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Army, President, Army Medical School, to the Surgeon General of the Army, transmitting a resolution of thanks of the faculty of the Army Medical School to Major J. Van R. Hoff, for the provision of a gold medal in honor of his father; Army and Navy Register, Washington (June 5, 1909), 1897; 1909

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: 9803059X18
Collection Summary From the Collection: Contains correspondence, drawings, photographs, and background documents on Hoff's military service during the Civil War. Includes discussion on the need for amputations, the use of calomel, the use of hospital ships (especially the D.A. January and the J.K. Barnes) for the transportation of the sick and wounded, and biographical information on Hoff. Correspondents include Alden March, John Shaw...
Dates: 1897; 1909

Photograph of Memorial Font in the Chapel of St. Cornelius the Centurion, Governors Island, N.Y.; Biographical sketch of Alexander Henry Hoff; no author, no date, 1911, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: 9803059X19
Collection Summary From the Collection: Contains correspondence, drawings, photographs, and background documents on Hoff's military service during the Civil War. Includes discussion on the need for amputations, the use of calomel, the use of hospital ships (especially the D.A. January and the J.K. Barnes) for the transportation of the sick and wounded, and biographical information on Hoff. Correspondents include Alden March, John Shaw...
Dates: 1911, undated

Copy of presentation address delivered by Gen. Robert E. Noble, Medical Corps, to the Hoff medalist, Capt. Gill, 1923 June 8

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Identifier: 9803059X20
Collection Summary From the Collection: Contains correspondence, drawings, photographs, and background documents on Hoff's military service during the Civil War. Includes discussion on the need for amputations, the use of calomel, the use of hospital ships (especially the D.A. January and the J.K. Barnes) for the transportation of the sick and wounded, and biographical information on Hoff. Correspondents include Alden March, John Shaw...
Dates: 1923 June 8