Abstract
Correspondence, reprints and clippings primarily documenting Shiras' collaboration with the Committee of One Hundred to create a national health department.
Dates
- Creation: 1897-1923
Extent
0.63 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Creator
- Shiras, George, 1859-1942 (Person)
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Language of Materials
Collection materials primarily in English
Restrictions
Collection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access.
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Biographical Note
Born in Allegheny, Pa., George Shiras III attended Cornell University and received his law degree from Yale in 1883. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the Pittsburgh area from 1903 to 1905. While a representative Shiras advocated for unified federal supervision of health matters. He worked closely with the Committee of One Hundred, a select group which was part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and formed primarily to lobby for a national department of health.
Collection Summary
Contains correspondence, documents, reprints, and clippings pertaining to the efforts of the Committee of One Hundred. Correspondents include Irving Fisher, J. Pease Norton, Robert L. Owen, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Walter Wyman.
Abstract
Correspondence, reprints and clippings primarily documenting Shiras' collaboration with the Committee of One Hundred to create a national health department.
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Provenance
Unknown.
General
- Processed by
- HMD Staff
- Processing Completed
- 2004
- Encoded by
- Jim Labosier
- Title
- Finding Aid to the George Shiras Papers, 1897-1923
- Status
- Unverified Partial Draft
- Author
- HMD Staff
- Date
- 2004
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
- Edition statement
- 1.0
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