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National Tuberculosis Association collection of prints and ephemera
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National Tuberculosis Association collection of prints and ephemera
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A collection of four items, dating approximately 1939 to 1945, published by the National Tuberculosis Association as part of an educational public health campaign for the early diagnosis of tuberculosis in the United States. The promotional materials reference being paid for by the Christmas Seals program and include images of the program's double-barred red cross emblem. The first item is double-sided and features a blank letterhead for the 16th Annual Educational Campaign for the Early Diagnosis of Tuberculosis. The letterhead includes a red-and-black vignette of four men in profile with varying attire representing the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Coast Guard above a detail of a chest X-ray. Text below their image reads, "They had chest X-rays, get yours. Tuberculosis is preventable." Verso of item is a red-and-black informational print reading, "Follow the example of the armed forces. Get a chest X-ray. Tuberculosis is preventable – curable." Print includes black-and-white photographs, including a group photograph of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in line to receive a chest X-ray. The second item is a red-and-black poster featuring profiles of a man and woman above text that reads, "Chest X-ray. In war – a patriotic duty. In peace – plain common sense." The third item is a blank letterhead for the 17th Annual Educational Campaign. The left of the letterhead features a black-and-red vignette with a split-face graphic of two profiles, one of a man in a military helmet against a profile of an allegorical woman wearing a wreath. Text below the profiles states, "In war, a patriotic duty, in peace, plain common sense. Get your chest X-ray now." The fourth item is double-sided and includes a description for "Four lessons on tuberculosis" and instructions on building an educational exhibit.
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Los Angeles County Medical Association printed materials collection, (bulk 1930-1989)
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[2] p. Letter from William H. Welch to Dr. W. Jarvis Barlow, on National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis letterhead, dated October 7, 1908. Letter discusses the candidacy of Dr. Robert L. Cunningham for a position with Dr. Barlow. Letter on both sides of a leaf, in manuscript. LACMA call number: LACMA Calif L153 B24f 1908-1923.
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Los Angeles County Medical Association collection of prints and ephemera
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The Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) collection of prints and ephemera contains over 200 printed items related to the medical profession. The materials include satirical prints, medical curiosities, significant figures in the history of medicine, architectural views of hospitals, and the early years of LACMA itself. Many of the prints are engravings, some are lithographs, and a small selection are reproductions printed during a later period. The collection also includes personal correspondence, medical certificates and photographs of members of LACMA. The materials date from 1644 to 1946, although the bulk of the material date from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. Noted artists from the collection include British caricaturists Isaac Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson, French engraver Pierre Roch Vigneron, German portrait artist Adolf Eckstein, and French anatomist, painter, and printmaker Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty.Materials are arranged by genre or item type, and prints are loosely grouped topically: British caricatures, medical curiosities, portraits, architectural prints, and general medical prints. Prints are described at the item-level, with artists, printers, and publishers indexed by name when available. Manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera are described at the folder level and include a variety of materials, including trade cards, medical advertisements, booklets, leaflets, periodicals, and printed billheads and letterheads (with and without manuscript text). Notable items include a series of obituaries (from approximately 1938) concerning the death of Dr. Joseph Pomeroy Widney, co-founder and second president of the University of Southern California (Box 4, folder 3); a 1789 manuscript import certificate regarding surgical instruments imported from London for the Pennsylvania Hospital (Box 4, folder 4); and an 1880 photo business card (printed in both English and Spanish) for physician and surgeon Dr. Tom She Ben, a Chinese doctor who practiced medicine in late 19th-century Los Angeles (Box 4, folder 6). A scrapbook assembled in approximately 1920 by members of LACMA contains print and manuscript material related to "Doctors and Specialists," as well as a specimen of human hair.The collection offers information regarding medicine, health, pharmaceuticals, patent medicines, quacks and quackery spanning over five centuries, as well as social perspectives on both the practices and practitioners in these fields. Also of particular interest are the medical curiosities prints. The images document the history of medical practitioners, methods, and materials in Britain and the United States as well as ailments and illnesses common during this period. Several items also help document the professionalization of medicine in Southern California. As graphic materials, the collection highlights developing techniques and trends in printmaking while documenting the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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Series I. Circus Prints and Ephemera (small size)
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This series contains over 500 printed items, 11 x 14 inches or smaller, that pertain to circuses in the United States from approximately 1850 to 1991, with the bulk of items dating from 1880 to 1960. Items consist of advertising and promotion ephemera that promote circuses or were used as business documents by circuses. Item types include trade cards, programs and souvenir books, route cards, envelopes, tickets, songsters, and printed billheads and letterheads. While some of the stationery is filled out in manuscript with miscellaneous correspondence or invoices, the series does include a substantial amount of blank letterhead.
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Los Angeles County Medical Association printed materials collection, (bulk 1930-1989)
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[2] p. Manuscript letter from Eleanor Seymour, M.D., on her letterhead, to Miss Granger, written on both sides of a single sheet. LACMA call number: LACMA Calif L150 Se-1.
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Los Angeles County Medical Association printed materials collection, (bulk 1930-1989)
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[2] leaves. Typescript letter from Dr. William James May to Dr. Roger S. Morris, on physicians' letterhead, dated April 3, 1913. Mayo writes to confirm Dr. Griffin's presentation of a paper at an upcoming meeting of the American Medical Association. LACMA call number: LACMA Calif L153 B24f 1908-1923.
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