Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench circa 1879-circa 1960 bulk 1900-1954

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:

• 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;
• 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;
• a scrapbook and other materials that relate to Truby's book,Memoir of Walter Reed: the Yellow Fever Episode;
• 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:

• notes from Philip Showalter Hench's research of the yellow fever experiments;
• the recollections, autobiographies, and reports of other people involved with the yellow fever experiments including John Andrus and A.S. Pinto;
• articles and clippings related to the yellow fever experiments;
• a short biography of Lemuel S. Reed;
• 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.

Subjects:

annual reports
articles
biographies (documents)
charts (graphic documents)
chronologies (lists)
clippings (information artifacts)
drawings (visual works)
envelopes
executive orders
exhibit scripts
interviews
lectures
letters (correspondence)
manuscripts (document genre)
maps (documents)
medical records
memorandums
military records
notes
obituaries
oral histories (document genres)
photographs
postcards
questionnaires
references
reports
reprints
reviews
scrapbooks
sketches
speeches
tables (documents)
telegrams

Names:

United States. Army
Cuba
Smithsonian Institution
Kean, Jefferson Randolph, 1860-1950
Hench, Philip S. (Philip Showalter), 1896-1965
Gorgas, William Crawford, 1854-1920
Bushnell, George E. (George Ensign), 1853-1924
Almeyda, Jose Ramos
Morejos, A.
Guiteras, John, 1852-1925
Thomason, H.D.
Finlay, Carlos Juan, 1833-1915
López del Valle, José Antonio, 1875-1937
Lebredo, Mario G.
Agramonte, A. (Aristides), 1869-1931
Miller, [s.n.]
Truby, Albert E. (Albert Ernest), 1871-1954
Gorgas, Marie D. (Marie Doughty), -1929
Hendrick, Burton Jesse, 1870-1949
Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950
Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik), 1863-1944
Edsall, David Linn, 1869-1945
Clark, Jerome
Richardson, Louisa C.
Birmingham, Henry P.
Black, William Murray, 1855-1933
Kelly, Howard A. (Howard Atwood), 1858-1943
Delaney, M.A.
Strong, Richard A.
West, Olin
Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944
Walker, J. Carter (John Carter), 1874-
Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931
Amador, R.A.
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939
McCaw, Walter D. (Walter Drew), 1863-1939
Patterson, Robert U.
Ravenel, Mazÿck Porcher
Alvare, Ignacio
Siler, J. F. (Joseph Franklin), 1875-1960
LeRoy y Cassá, Jorge, 1867-1934
Russell, Frederick F. (Frederick Fuller), 1870-1960
Tydings, Millard E. (Millard Evelyn), 1890-1961
de Niedman, W.F.
McCoy, Frank Ross, 1874-1954
Taylor, John R.
Carter, Laura Armistead, d. 1935
Beveridge, Wilfred William Ogilvy
Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964
Agramonte, Frances F.
Baker, C. B. (Chauncey Brooke), 1860-1936
Darnall, C.R.
Dabney, A.S.
Angles, Eduardo
Domínguez y Roldán, Francisco, 1864-1942
Kellogg, George A.
Schnurr, Dorma V.
Bullard, John R.
Kissinger, Ida E.
Pinto, A.S.
Nogueira, Pedro
Ashford, Mahlon
Kean, Cornelia Knox
Lambert, Gustaf E.
Franck, Lillie W.
Reed, Walter L.
Gilhus, A. T.
Moran, John J. (John Joseph), 1876-1950
Tate, Paul L.
Kean, Robert H.
Hench, Mary
Rodríguez Expósito, César, 1904-
Love, Albert G. (Albert Gallatin), 1877-
Kelly, John J.
Andrus, John H., 1879-1942
Simpson, T. McN.

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