Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Containers:
Box 62-65
Extent:
4 boxes
Scope and content:

Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench primarily consists of materials relating to Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1879 to around 1960 with the bulk of the items dating from 1900 to 1954. These items include, but are not limited to the following:

  1. correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean dating from 1900 to 1950 that relates to his personal life, the yellow fever experiments, public health initiatives, his publications, the legacy of the yellow fever experiments, Kean's work in World War I, and other topics;
  2. Philip Showalter Hench's correspondence with people related to the yellow fever experiments, particularly Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean primarily from between 1940 and 1955;
  3. a scrapbook and other materials that relate to Truby's book,Memoir of Walter Reed: the Yellow Fever Episode;
  4. and Philip Showalter Hench's interviews and questionnaires for Kean and Truby from the 1940s.

In addition to the materials relating to Kean and Truby, Series VII. also includes the following:

  1. notes from Philip Showalter Hench's research of the yellow fever experiments;
  2. the recollections, autobiographies, and reports of other people involved with the yellow fever experiments including John Andrus and A.S. Pinto;
  3. articles and clippings related to the yellow fever experiments;
  4. a short biography of Lemuel S. Reed;
  5. and a sketch Philp Showalter Hench made of a proposed museum at the Camp Lazear site.

Materials in this series are generally arranged in chronological order regardless of their format and subject matter.

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Parent restrictions:
There are no restrictions on user access to any of the materials in the collection except where noted in the container list.
Parent terms of access:
Copyright restrictions may apply for some materials in the collection.

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