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Finding Aid for the Orville Harry Brown Papers 1886-1940

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Series 1. Writings by OHB 1904-1940

Physical Description: 3 folders

Scope and Content Note

journal reprints and cut pages, reports, pamphlets

Box 1, Folder 1

Journal reprints and cut pages. 1904-1907

Scope and Content Note

18 items from "American Journal of Physiology", "Journal of the American Medical Association", and other physiological and clinical titles

Box 1, Folder 2

Journal reprints and cut pages. 1908-1940

Scope and Content Note

47 items from various clinical titles, especially, in the later years, from "Southwestern Medicine"

Box 1, Folder 3

Pamphlets. 1909-1918

Scope and Content Note

1) "Missouri State Sanatorium: Some information for persons desiring admission to the Missouri State Sanatorium for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, by Dr. O.H. Brown, Physician-in-Chief. Mount Vernon, Missouri"; 2) "The Missouri State Sanatorium (first biennial report). Mount Vernon, MO, Jan. 1909"; 3) Bulletin of the Arizona State Board of Health", 6(8), Oct. 1918; 4) "Some facts about the climate of Phoenix and the Salt River Valley of Arizona; a collection of papers ... read before the Maricopa County Medical Society...."

Series 2. Miscellaneous Materials 1886-1908

Physical Description: 16 folders

Scope and Content Note

This series contains materials by and about the Committee of One Hundred on National Health and the American Health League, newspaper clippings from the 1880s and 1890, and various other clippings and reprints.

Box 1, Folder 4

Journal reprint. 1906

Scope and Content Note

"The economic advisability of inaugurating a national organization of health," by J. Pease Norton, "Journal of the American Medical Association", Sep. 29, 1906; read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ithaca, N.Y., June 30, 1906

Box 1, Folder 5

Publications of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health, organized under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and The American Health League 1907-1908

Scope and Content Note

publication nos. 10-16, 18-20, and five other pamphlets

Note

for publication no. 16, see [Box 1 : 6]

Box 1, Folder 6

"To the grewsome [sic] record of convictions set forth in this pamphlet your attention is respectfully invited".

Note

published by the Public Health Defense League, N.Y.

Box 1, Folder 7

Pages and articles from "The Literary Digest". 1891-1900

Scope and Content Note

subjects covered: human physiology, exercise, sleep; science and invention; eminent men; miscellany

Box 1, Folder 8

Articles about Charles Dickens.

Scope and Content Note

1) "The homes and haunts of Dickens," by Anna Leach, in "Munsey's Magazine", pp. 240-250, no date or volume no.; 2) two pages (13-14) of "In the footsteps of Dickens," no identification

Box 1, Folder 9

Pages from medical journals. 1891-1897

Scope and Content Note

1) "Proceedings of Societies" in "New York Medical Journal", Sep. 26, 1891: 353-354; 2) "Six-day bicycle races" in "The Medical News", Dec. 18, 1897: 801-802

Box 1, Folder 10

Pages from Harper's Weekly. 1886-1898

Box 1, Folder 11

Two unidentified columns.

Scope and Content Note

1) "The dog in India," reprinted from "Revue Scientifique", Paris, June 11, 1892; 2) "Is it a crime to be rich?" (no identification)

Box 1, Folder 12

"The cost of war," by George B. Waldron.

Scope and Content Note

p. 169-171, no other identification

Box 1, Folder 13

Newspaper clippings. 1880s

Scope and Content Note

from: "New York Herald" and its "Sunday Supplement", "Brooklyn Sunday Press", and "New York World"

Box 1, Folder 14

Newspaper clippings. 1890s

Scope and Content Note

from: "The Morning Press", Santa Barbara, Calif.; "New York Herald" and its "Sunday Supplement"; "Harper's Weekly"; "The Daily Telegraph", [London]; "The Argonaut", San Francisco

Box 1, Folder 15

Newspaper clippings. 1900s

Scope and Content Note

from Pueblo [Colorado?]

Box 1, Folder 16

Miscellaneous newspaper clippings.

Box 1, Folder 17

"Some old visiting-cards".

Scope and Content Note

from: "The Strand Magazine", p. 401-406 (no date or volume)

Box 1, Folder 18

Poem, "Morituri salutamus," by Henry W. Longfellow.

Scope and Content Note

from: "Harper's Magazine", p. 442-[446], no date or volume

Note

poem for the fiftieth anniversary of the Class of 1825 of Bowdoin College

Box 1, Folder 19

Poem, "Grey kitty's fortune," by L. W. K.

Scope and Content Note

no other identification; handwritten copy

Container List

Writings by OHB

Miscellaneous Materials

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