Bowers (Rose A.) papers

Contributing Institutions Collection Guides Browse Map About OAC

What are Collection Guides?

> Home > UCLA > Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science

Collection Guide

∞ https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9g50240q/

Collection Title:

Collection Number:

Get Items:

Bowers (Rose A.) papers

Biomed.0176

No online items Request items ↗

Contact UCLA::Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science

View entire collection guide

Printable Guide [HTML]

Search this collection

Table of contents

folder 1

Circular of information: employment of women physicians as contract surgeons.

Scope and Contents note

issued by the Office of the Surgeon General, War Department, Washington; calls for medical school graduates between the ages of 23 and 45, with skills in administration of anesthetics

folder 2

Contract with a private physician for service as contract surgeon, U. S. Army. 1918-1921

Scope and Contents note

entered into on Aug. 19, 1918 in Michigan City, Indiana, for the sum of $150/month, plus quarters, etc. as allowed for a First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps; entries on verso indicate the contract was terminated Nov. 15, 1918

General note

stamped entries note issue of a bronze victory button on Oct. 6, 1919 and a Victory Medal on Feb. 18, 1921 (see Box 1, Items 1 and 2 for these artifacts)

folder 3

Special orders, no. 213, extract. 9/11/1918

Scope and Contents note

orders Dr. Bowers to report to Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois

folder 4

Special orders, no. 183, extract. 9/17/1918

Scope and Contents note

assigns Dr. Bowers to the Section of General Surgery as anesthetist

General note

two carbon copies

folder 5

Memorandum, no. 61, Camp Grant. 9/22/1918

Scope and Contents note

warns medical personnel to wear masks and gowns and take proper precautions because of the influenza epidemic

folder 6

Bulletins, Camp Grant: nos. [1], 2, 4-7. 9/28/1918 - 10/4/1918

Scope and Contents note

provide daily admission, discharge, death, and total patient counts; list major administrative actions and problems

folder 7

Bulletins, Camp Grant: nos. 8-14. 10/5/1918 - 10/11/1918

folder 8

Bulletins, Camp Grant: nos. 15-21. 10/12/1918 - 10/18/1918

General note

two copies of no. 20

folder 9

Bulletins, Camp Grant: nos. 22, 25-29. 10/19/1918 - 11/4/1918

folder 10

Memoranda, Camp Grant. 11/5/1918 -11/6/1918

Scope and Contents note

memorandum to all ward surgeons, and memorandum announcing arrival of inspector to the camp

folder 11

Letter from Woodrow Wilson.

Scope and Contents note

copy of a holographic letter to the people of the country "to lend their money" to the war effort

folder artifact 1

Bronze victory button. 10/6/1919

General note

see [Box 1 : 2] for paperwork

folder artifact 2

Bronze victory medal. 2/18/1921

General note

see [Box 1 : 2] for paperwork

Collection Contents