Ichitaro Katsuki Collection, 1890s-1966

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Summary

Creators:
Katsuki, Ichitaro and Desruisseaux, Ellen
Extent:
1.25 Linear Feet (1 carton, 1 oversized folder)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Ichitaro Katsuki Collection, MSS 2025-23. Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains materials documenting the life and professional activities of Dr. Ichitaro Katsuki, an 1896 UCSF School of Medicine graduate. It contains his diploma, class notes, a photograph, a textbook, a box of glass slides, and a copy of his memoirs dictated to his family in the 1960s.

Biographical / historical:

Ichitaro Katsuki was born in Kanazawa, Japan, in 1865. He entered the University of California Medical School in 1893 and graduated with honors in 1896, one of the first Japanese to receive a degree from that institution. In 1900, the San Francisco Board of Health sent him to Honolulu as a special representative to investigate the bubonic plague then raging in Hawaii. He subsequently chose to remain in Honolulu as a general practitioner. Dr. Katsuki died at age 101 in 1967.

Acquisition information:
This collection was donated to the UCSF Archives and Special Collections by Ellen Desruisseaux, granddaughter of Ichitaro Katsuki, in 2023.
Physical description:
Notebooks have a fair amount of silverfish damage but writing is still legible. Notebooks were rehoused into individual envelopes.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

The UCSF Archives and Special Collections policy places access restrictions on material with privacy issues for a specific time period from the date of creation. Access to records that contain personal and confidential information about an individual or individuals is restricted for 75 years from date of creation or until the death of the individual mentioned in the records, whichever is longer. Access to medical records is restricted for 100 years from the latest date of the materials in those files. Restrictions are noted at the series level. This collection will be reviewed for sensitive content upon request. Contact the UCSF Archivist for information on access to these files.

Terms of access:

Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of the University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing, and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Ichitaro Katsuki Collection, MSS 2025-23. Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.

Location of this collection:
UCSF Library & CKM Archives and Special Collections, 530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840, US