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Indians of North America -- Medical care

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Alice and Boyce Timmons Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-1227
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Correspondence, pamphlets, and reports of various Native American projects, such as the Alaska Native Law Project, the North Slope Legal Assistance Project, the American Indian Institute, and the Alaska Legal Services Corporation. Boyce and Alice Timmons Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1892-1982

Dr. R. H. Sherrill Collection

 Collection — Box S-15
Identifier: WHC-M-1225
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Physician. Correspondence from Indians to Dr. Sherrill, a general practitioner in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, asking for treatment and medicine for various ailments. Rufus Hansen Sherrill Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1926-1930

Leonard M. Logan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-363
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University professor. Correspondence (1950-1958) with the Department of the Interior, congressmen, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs; reports (1956-1963) and newspaper clippings (1925-1961) concerning Indian affairs; and manuscripts (1948) entitled "The Care of Chronic and Convalescent Patients in Oklahoma" by Logan, and "Norman and Cleveland County, A Resource Inventory.".

Dates: 1925-1961

Marriott-Rachlin Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-1230
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Anthropologists. Correspondence, research materials and manuscripts of Alice Lee Marriott and Carol Rachlin assembled during their collaboration on several essays and manuscripts relating to Native American society, mythology and peyotism.

Dates: 1963-1975

William E. Van Cleave Collection

 Collection — Box V-1
Identifier: WHC-M-636
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Physician. Correspondence (1926-1940); manuscripts by Van Cleave, entitled "Indian Medicine" and "Important Points in the Early Diagnosis of Tuberculosis"; annual reports (1926-1934) of the Choctaw-Chickasaw Sanitorium; issues of the "TB Tom Tom" newsletter (1933); and newspaper clippings about Van Cleave and his work at the Sanitorium. William E. Van Cleave Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1926-1940