Albert Baird Hastings Certificates and Photographs
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library
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Descriptive Summary
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Albert Baird Hastings Certificates and Photographs
Creator:
Hastings, A. Baird (Albert Baird), 1895-1987
Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0061
Physical Description:
3 Linear feet
(1 archives box, 1 shoebox, 1 oversize box, and 1 map case folder)
Date (inclusive): 1933-1985
Abstract: A small collection of certificates, awards and commendations, and photographs belonging to Albert Baird Hastings.
Languages:
English
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Scope and Content of Collection
A small collection of certificates, awards and commendations, and photographs belonging to Albert Baird Hastings. While the
bulk of Hastings papers are at the National Library of Medicine, Hastings entrusted Fred White, director of the SIO Physiological
Research Lab, to preserve Hastings' portraits and career mementos at the SIO Archives.
Biography
Several excellent short biographies of Hastings are available online, including one from the National Academies Press. See
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/4560/chapter/11 for his Biographical Memoir.
Preferred Citation
Albert Baird Hastings Certificates and Photographs. SMC 61. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1988
OFF-SITE STORAGE
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hastings, A. Baird (Albert Baird), 1895-1987 -- Archives
Hastings, A. Baird (Albert Baird), 1895-1987 -- Portraits
Certificates, awards and degrees
Box 1, Folder 1-15
Certificates, awards and degrees
1936-1972
Box 3, Folder 5
Certificates, awards and degrees - Oversize box
Oversize Annex MC-006, Folder 05
Certificates, awards and degrees - Oversize map case
Box 1, Folder 16
Presidential letters and group portraits (Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower)
1941, 1943, 1947, 1955
Box 1, Folder 18
Parents - Otis Hastings, Elizabeth Baird Hastings
Box 1, Folder 19
Group portrait, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
1936
Box 1, Folder 20
Group portrait, OSRD Committee on Medical Research, Carnegie Institution, Washington
ca. 1944
Box 1, Folder 21
General Hodge and Admiral Deyo with ABH
1948
Box 1, Folder 22
Group portrait, Dept of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School
1951
Box 1, Folder 23
Donald Dexter Van Slyke
undated
Box 1, Folder 24
Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation staff
1960
Box 1, Folder 25
Deputy Surgeon General Hudley (USPHS) and ABH, receiving citation for 47 years of service
1964
Box 1, Folder 26
Salt and Water Club, UC San Diego
1970
Box 1, Folder 27
A. Baird Hastings Society charter members
1982
Box 1, Folder 28
Chinese colleague (family portraits) and Capital Hospital, Beijing
ca. 1935, and 1985
General note
The prints from the Chinese colleague, showing his family, are from the 1930s.
Box 3, Folder 4
Photographs - Oversize box
General note
Primarily group portraits and portraits of others. Includes: Head shots of the Council of American Society of Biological Chemists,
1943-44; James B. Conant; Harvard Medical School Bicentennial Convocation; Sir Joseph Barcroft, Laurence J. Henderson, and
Sir Gowland Hopkins in 1936; OSRD Committee on Medical Research in 1944.
Oversize Annex MC-006, Folder 05
Photographs - Oversize map case
General note
Mounted, high-quality black and white prints featuring ABH; panorama portrait of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1936.
Box 3, Folder 1
Plaque with trident, given to ABH by UC San Diego in recognition of leadership and service
1975 November 24
Box 2
National Academy of Sciences, Centennial Medal
1963
Box 2
San Diego County Heart Association, Distinguished Achievement Medal
1972 June 1
Box 2
Banting Medal of the American Diabetes Association
1962
Box 2
Presidential Medal for Merit
1948
Box 2
American College of Physicians Award
undated
Box 2
Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, Lima medal
undated
Box 2
Columbia University bicentennial medal
1967
Box 2
Loving cup - Presented by the Class of 1914, Shortridge High School to Baird Hastings, Honor Pupil of the Class of 1910
1910
Box 2
Loving cup, to ABH from Grey
1966
Box 3, Folder 2
Cardboard sign advertising talk by Cord Meyer, Jr., "World law or World War II"
undated
Box 3, Folder 3
Portrait sketch in charcoal or graphite, signed "Monge"
undated
