This box contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, promotional materials, memorandums, announcements, reports, personnel lists, program outlines, articles and handouts. The materials cover a wide variety of public health topic, including, but not limited to, polio vaccinations, oral health, family planning, the inclusion of non-married persons in family planning, measles immunizations, parenting classes, mental health services, communicable diseases, venereal disease, food and nutrition, public health statistics, tuberculosis, reports on premature deaths among Hispanic and Black men, sanitation, and health education.

This box contains public health reports for California, reports and articles, travel magazines, docent and tour training for the Museum of Ventura County, a Huell Howser VHS tape on the missions featuring Ventura's mission, photographic slides, 8 compact cassettes, and 2 IUDs. The public health reports provide statistics for the years 1928-1962 and 1976. Atkisson was an avid traveler, and her papers include travel magazines and ephemera, including a travel magazine for Arizona featuring photographs of Indigenous people.

The photographic slides feature personal photographs, public health presentation slides, public health department events and programming, and some unidentified images. The photographs include images of a presentation of the important of measles immunization, newborn care, prenatal health clinics, and public health facilities, among other things. The compact cassettes are largely recordings of health-related talks and lectures on topics including lung cancer, smoking, hospice care, genetic counseling and screening, and psychiatric care. The IUDs are the Dalkon Shield brand and from the early 1970s.

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BOX CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Special equipment or further processing may be required for viewing. Requests to access audio-visual materials in collections must be made in advance. Please contact the Research Library at library@venturamuseum.org.