Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Margaret H. Jones papers
- Dates:
- 1955-1960
- Creators:
- University of California, Los Angeles. Brain Research Institute
- Extent:
- .1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Margaret H. Jones Papers (Collection 493). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection documents a portion of Margaret H. Jones's involvement with the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy's Brain Registry. It includes: "Infantile spastic hemiplegia", a ten-page pamphlet reproducing (in a different format) the Academy's brain registry exhibit at the American Medical Association's June, 1955 meeting -- Annotated typescript, "Submission of brains in connection with 'Project Cerebral Palsy'" (27 June 1956) -- Typed letters signed (December 1959) and her affirmative response (January 1960), inviting Jones to serve on the Academy's Brain Registry Committee and the Committee for Evaluation of Treatment.
- Biographical / historical:
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Margaret H. Jones, M.D., was born June 3, 1904, in Portland, Maine. She received an A.B., Radcliffe Coll., 1925, Yale Univ., an M.A., Vassar Coll., 1927, an M.D., Cornell Univ. Med. Center, 1933-34, Babies Hosp., 1934-36, did a residency at Mary Imogene Bassett Hosp., 1936, and received an M.P.H., Harvard Grad. School of Public Health, 1940. She was instructor, Dept. of Physiology, Vassar Coll., 1926-28, research chemist, Reed and Carnick Co., N.J., 1928-29, director, Div. of Maternal and Child Health, Crippled children, Public Health Nursing, Wyo. State Dept. of Health, 1936-43, and pediatrician, Holleran Med. Group, L.A., 1943-49. She was on the staff, Childrens Hospital, L.A., 1943-49, and Queen of Angels Hosp., L.A., 1943-54. She taught in the Dept. of Pediatrics, USC School of Medicine, 1943-54, had a private practice, Glendale, Calif., 1949-54, and taught in the UCLA Dept. of Pediatrics, 1954-72. She joined the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine at their second annual meeting in 1949 and became their sixth president in 1956. She married Adrian C. Kanaar in 1989 and became Margaret Jones-Kanaar. Dr. Jones-Kanaar died at her home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, in 2001.
- Acquisition information:
- Transferred by UCLA Brain Research Institute, 2012.
- Processing information:
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Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-11-23 10:12:21 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Margaret H. Jones Papers (Collection 493). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-6940