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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.

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.

Report is in form of letter addressed to Dr. Joseph Lovell, surgeon general. Watkins was assistant surgeon general. Includes letters (1938) transmitting biographical data.

Society and Executive Board meeting minutes, committee records, subject files, correspondence, mailings, event fliers, publications, newsletters, financial ledgers, legal briefs, and published legal proceedings document the formal operations of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. The Medical Society of the District of Columbia (MSDC) is a professional advocacy organization for physicians practicing in and around the District of Columbia.

Memoranda on nominations and appointments of Board of Regents. Includes some biographical data.

Meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports pertaining to the Armed Forces Medical Library and National Library of Medicine activities.

Documents, correspondence, and clippings relating to efforts made by library officials to secure approval and funding for a new library building, 1874-1955, and to legislation creating the National Library of Medicine and the process involved in selecting a building site, 1956-1959.

Correspondence, minutes, reports, ledgers, journals, publications, and photographs document administration, professional training, and treatment programs at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital from its inception to 2003.

Consists of memoirs and correspondence relating to Alfred Blalock and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1943-1965. Includes materials from Austin Lamont, Philip B. Price, Donald F. Proctor, and Richard W. TeLinde. Collection complements oral history OH 8.

Collection consists of forty four thesis and essays submitted for completion of their medical degrees by students at Washington University School of Medicine of Baltimore.