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Collection of oral histories on the history of the National Library of Medicine

 Collection
Identifier: HMD MS ACC 732

Abstract

UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. Tapes and some transcripts of interviews with the following: Scott Adams; Thomas Baggs; Estelle Brodman; George Cosmides; Martin Cummings; Carl Douglass; Joseph Leiter; Joseph McNinch; Charles Rice; Frank B. Rogers; Henry Schoolman; Winifred Sewell; Norman Shumway; Ralph Simmons; Kanardy Taylor; Marjorie Wilson; Harold Wooster; Warner Wells.

Dates

  • Creation: 1864-1984

Extent

0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Creator

Physical Location

Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

Language of Materials

Collection materials primarily in English

Access Restrictions

Access is not restricted.

Copyright and Re-use Information

Donor's copyrights were transferred to the public domain. Archival collections often contain mixed copyrights; while NLM is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. It is the user's responsibility to research and understand any applicable copyright and re-publication rights not allowed by fair use. NLM does not grant permissions to publish.

Privacy Information

Archives and manuscript collections may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in any collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications for which the National Library of Medicine assumes no responsibility.

Biographical/Historical Note

A history of the National Library of Medicine had been a dream of library directors ever since Dr. Frank B. Rogers began to work on one in the late 1950's, but no book-length history of the library appeared until 1982. In that year Wyndham D. Miles's A History of the National Library of Medicine: The Nation's Treasury of Medical Knowledge appeared. Miles, a historian of chemistry, had been working as a historian for the national Institutes of Health since 1962. At the direction of Dr. Martin M. Cummings, the library's director, Miles began to work on the history of the library. In 1986 Miles donated to the library the material he ahd accumulated during the course of preparing the history.

Collection Summary

Tapes and some transcripts of interviews with the following: Scott Adams; Thomas Baggs; Estelle Brodman; George Cosmides; Martin Cummings; Carl Douglass; Joseph Leiter; Joseph McNinch; Charles Rice; Frank B. Rogers; Henry Schoolman; Winifred Sewell; Norman Shumway; Ralph Simmons; Kanardy Taylor; Marjorie Wilson; Harold Wooster; Warner Wells.

Additional Description

Abstract

UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. Tapes and some transcripts of interviews with the following: Scott Adams; Thomas Baggs; Estelle Brodman; George Cosmides; Martin Cummings; Carl Douglass; Joseph Leiter; Joseph McNinch; Charles Rice; Frank B. Rogers; Henry Schoolman; Winifred Sewell; Norman Shumway; Ralph Simmons; Kanardy Taylor; Marjorie Wilson; Harold Wooster; Warner Wells.

Physical Location

Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

Provenance

Gift, 10 July 1992, Accession 732.

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Finding Aid to the Collection of oral histories on the history of the National Library of Medicine, 1864-1984
Status
Unverified Partial Draft
Author
Derived using MARCedit
Date
March 2013
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English
Edition statement
1.0

Collecting Area Details

Collecting Area Details

Part of the Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections Collecting Area

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