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Account book of a dentist's office in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Entries were made from 1907-1918 and then in a different handwriting and re-using some of the pages of earlier dates again from 1934-1939. An appointment card listl Dr. R.H. Shuman, so he may have been one of the dentists. Includes the names of over 500 patients, treatment type and charges.

This collection contains an account book of a Virginia dentist, Dr. I.T. Walton, who worked in Appomattox, Prince Edward, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, and Albemarle Counties. The book recorded services for white, enslaved, and free Black patients between 1857 and 1861. The account book documents procedures, tooth conditions, and overall health assessment of patients and includes prices for cleanings, toothache drops, "gold plugs," and various "temporary" and "amalgam" fillings, as well as for "extracting" teeth and "fangs," resetting teeth, and occasionally "killing nerve[s]." Each entry records the name of the patient and, if different, the name of the person paying the bill. Most of the volume proceeds chronologically, though Walton regularly returns to entries to record later work on the same patient. Walton delineates race within his account book, with forty individuals referred to as either "negro" or "negress". Walton notes two Black patients as free, and the rest were evidently enslaved. No mention of the Civil War appears. A few entries note Walton's renting rooms- evidence of an itinerant practice- while others, apparently from Key West, Florida, indicate that he spent some time there in the late 1850s. A few early pages contain dental account entries from 1857 through 1859, and some twenty pages at the end contain brief entries on Walton's personal and dental accounts from 1857 to 1861. A number of poems, some apparently authored by Walton, are interspersed between dental entries.

This collection contains letters to and from George Washington that have been aquired by the MVLA since 1858. For more information, see content note for individal items. The collection grows organically as new items are acquired.

Material concerning the West Virginia State Dental Society consisting of two printed pamphlets containing the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society for 1941 and 1955; a mimeographed information letter for 1954-55 (No. I); and the Society's Annual Historical Record for 1954.

Records, transactions, financial statement, and a typescript, "A History of Dentistry in West Virginia, 1907-1952," by William Patrick Turner, Jr. (unpublished M.A. thesis, West Virginia University, 1962).; also the "West Virginia Dental Journal" for 1957.

Typescripts of the proceedings of the general convention, and of minutes of the executive council at the forty-sixth convention of the society.

Correspondence, noted, typescripts and printed materials collected by William P. Turner, Jr., while preparing a master's thesis on dentistry in West Virginia. Correspondents include the State Dental Society, early dentists and dentistry, dentists in World War II, the Sarah Whitaker Glass Oral Foundation, West Liberty State College Hygiene Department, and dental hygiene.

Typescripts of official minutes of the 42nd- 45th annual meetings of the society.

These records include a bound typescript "Transactions of 1957"; press clippings from Press Service, Inc., and several volumes of the "West Virginia Dental Journal" which was published four times a year. The collection contains journals from 1958-1974 with the exceptions of editions from 1959, January 1960, October 1962, April 1963, January 1964, January 1865, April 1966, July 1967, January 1968, and April 1971.