Finding Aid for the T. Sheridan Carey Collection of Berdoo Camp Hospital Materials Biomed.0458
Finding aid prepared by Courtney Dean, 2020.
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Online finding aid last updated 2020 November 30.
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: T. Sheridan Carey collection of Berdoo Camp Hospital materials
Creator:
Carey, T. Sheridan (Thomas Sheridan), 1893-1969
Source:
Selvaggio, Marc (Bookseller)
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0458
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1910-1940
Date (bulk): 1932-1939
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Marc Selvaggio (California Antiquarian Book Fair), 10 February 2015.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user
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processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7575946
Administrative/Biographical History
T. (Thomas) Sheridan Carey (5 July 1893 - 23 October 1969), M.D. (Stanford University, 1917), served from 1933-1939 as Chief
Surgeon-Medical Officer for the Berdoo Camp Hospital, an air conditioned, 27-bed, class A industrial hospital with one assistant
surgeon and fourteen male registered nurses. The hospital operated at Berdoo Camp, near Indio and Coachella, from 1933 to
1936, then moved to Banning from 1936 to 1939.
The collection of photographs, memoranda, programs, and reports documents medical activities at the Berdoo Camp Hospital,
a facility in the Coachella Valley supporting construction of the Colorado River Aqueduct in California. Photographs include
exterior and interior views of the building and its instrumentation and equipment, the director and staff of male nurses,
ambulances, and some patients. Memoranda and reports to and from the Los Angeles offices of the Metropolitan Water District
of Southern California. One folder contains medical case reports by Munford Smith, M.D., Medical Director of the Barlow Sanatorium
in Los Angeles, concerning insurance claims by seven workers referred by the Berdoo Hospital with symptoms of tuberculosis.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Selvaggio, Marc (Bookseller)