Thomas Bailey Marquis papers
The collection is restricted to material that relate to American Indians and to Marquis's museum. Included are paper items from the museum--photographs, visitor's registers, certificats of authenticiy, loan papers, and inventories. There are also materials relating to the disposition of the artifacts by Marquis's heirs. The photographs (snapshots) include …
Henry Crecy Yarrow Papers
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Medical Sciences Film Collection
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
Films vary in subject, production source, and intended audience. Includes both silent and sound black-and-white, and color films with sound.
Randolph Winslow Collection
The Winslow Collection contains diaries, patient records, account books, collected historical materials, taped oral history interviews and miscellaneous papers. The core of the collection consists of a chronological series of small, handwritten leather bound books used for personal diaries, college and medical school notes, and patient records, kept over a …
Robert Angus Brooks Papers
This collection documents the different stages in Robert Brooks's education and career. Most of the material is professional in nature; there are few intimately personal letters or recordings. Much of the collection consists of business correspondence, notes, and financial records, as well as personal memorabilia, poetry and poetry translations. Brooks's …
Morton Family Collection
Morton, William J.
The collection documents through correspondence, reprints of general articles, reports of Congressional committees, and materials relating to a U.S. patent and testimonials Morton's claims to priority in the discovery of the anesthetic properties of ether in medical and surgical procedures.
Harry Hoogstraal Papers
These papers document the professional career, and to a lesser extent, the personal affairs of Harry Hoogstraal. Most of the papers concern his work after he joined NAMRU-3 in 1949. There appears to be little documentation of his participation on scientific expeditions during the 1930s and 1940s. The papers primarily consist of a …
Dr. Bruno Z. Kisch Papers
This collection consists of materials from the professional life of Dr. Bruno Z. Kisch.
Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records.
The collection documents Parke, Davis and Company, one of the largest and oldest pharmaceutical firms in America.
Edgar Alexander Mearns Papers
This collection documents Mearns' career as a field naturalist and expedition member and consists of correspondence, 1898-1909, including photocopies of letters written by Mearns while he served on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition of 1909; biographical material on Mearns and his family; field notes, research notes, specimen lists, photographs, and related materials concerning …