Guide to Resources and the National Library of Medicine's Collection
on
African Americans in Medicine
Prepared by P. Preston Reynolds, MD, PhD, FACP
2"^* Edition
For questions about this guide, please contact:
P Preston Reynolds, MD, PhD
University of Virginia Health System
General Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care
PO Box 800744
Charlottesville. VA 22908
PPRSQ^hscmail. mcc.vireinia.edu
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Table of Contents Pages
Introduction 2-5
Books on African Americans in Medicine 6-17
Manuscripts and Oral Histories of African Americans in Medicine 18-24
Photographs and On-line Images of African Americans in Medicine by Keyword 25 - 48
On-line Images of African Americans in Medicine by Subject 49 - 59
Videos and Films on African Americans in Medicine 60 - 63
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Introduction to the 2""* Edition of the "Guide to Resources and the National Library of Medicine's Collection on African Americans in Medicine"
Books on African Americans in Medicine
The NLM's collection of books on African Americans in Medicine reflects the current status of scholarship in this field of medical history. The inventory is separated into tlve sections: (1) Physicians, Dentists, Scientists and Healers; (2) Nursing and Midwifery; (3) Black Hospitals and Medical Schools; (4) General Histories of African Americans in Medicine and Black Health Care, Colonial to 19'^ Century; and, (5) General Histories of African Americans in Medicine and Black Health Care, Post-Reconstruction to Present. Section five includes those histories of black health care in the twentieth century that focus on a particular disease or are limited to a specific geographic area. In each section those books found in NLM's General Collection are listed first and followed by those located in NLM's History of Medicine collection.
This collection of books is instructive in several ways. The titles listed under the section, "Physicians, Dentists, Scientists, and Healers,'" reveal that for the most part, these books are compendiums of articles on great individuals who lived in the twentieth century that document their contributions to medicine and science and to particular specialties. Nevertheless, these texts are critical in constructing a black medical profession and appreciating many of the obstacles these pioneers faced in achieving a voice in mainstream medicine and a leadership role in their profession.
The books on "Nursing and Midwifery"' reflect a deeper analysis of the role of African American women in creating a nursing profession separate from that of white nurses and then their effort to integrate themselves into the larger nursing profession and its professional societies. These books are written by historians and chronicle the lives of founders of the African American nursing profession and the professional societies that represented these women. In addition there are case studies of African American public health nurses that effectively integrate these women into their social and political context. The histories of African American nurse midwifery include both biographies and analyses of the contributions of African American midwives and midwifery to health care of blacks in the South.
The books on "Black Hospitals and Medical Schools" contain studies written by historians as well as chapters on medical education of African Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Similar to scholarship on African American physicians, there are few comprehensive studies of the history of the black hospital in the context of the larger American system of health care delivery.
The general histories of African Americans in Medicine and Black Health Care offer a rigorous historical assessment of health and medical care of slaves in Virginia and Louisiana, and on plantations in other southern states. There is more published on this subject than any other in the field of African American medical history. Recently,
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several excellent histories have been written addressing the impact of racism on health care for African Americans from the colonial period to the present, and in the post- World War II period. Some of the best historical scholarship is found in the general histories of African Americans in Medicine and Black Health Care, and any scholar entering the field, should begin with a thorough read of books in this section.
Lastly, the NLM contains all of the major histories of African American medical care that focus on a particular disease or a specific area of the country. These include the works on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study as well as scholarship on sickle cell disease, syphilis, tuberculosis, maternal health, rural health, and mental health.
Manuscript Collections and Oral Histories of African Americans in Medicine, and Material on African Americans in Medicine in Manuscript Collections
There are four collections of manuscripts specifically of African Americans in Medicine. These collections refiect the lives of an African American Gastroenterologist (Dr. Leonidas Berry), an African American Commissioned Officer in the Public Health Service (John C. Eason), an African American Professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology (Dr. Paul Comely), and the first African American Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service (Dr. Jocelyn Elders). Three of the collections are unprocessed. The one collection that has been processed tully, that of Dr. Leonidas Berry, provides an excellent look at the life of one of the leading spokesmen for the African American profession as an educator, specialist, and advocate for the racial integration of health care in the United Slates. Fortunately, there is additional material that can supplement these manuscript collections, such as the oral history conducted with John C. Eason, and the two autobiographies, one written on Dr. Leonidas Berry, and one on Dr. Jocelyn Elders.
HMD's manuscript collection does contain material on African Americans in Medicine when one looks more closely at the contents of the individual collections themselves. This material has been described specifically as it relates to a particular collection. The most significant amount of "undiscovered" material is located in the collection of the American College of Nurse Midwives and includes photographs and written materials on African American nurse midwives in the North and South. Many of the print images of African American nurse midwives are included in NLM's Images in the History of Medicine on-line data base. These images are listed separately under "Print Images of African Americans in Medicine" of this inventory. In addition, HMD has the archival material that document the origin and termination of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in 1973 under the leadership of the commission chaired by Broadus N. Butler, president of Dillard University.
Mitchell Brown has produced one of the best sources of biographical information on African Americans in Science. He has published this material on a website: www. Princeton. edu/ nicbrovvn dispiav/faces.hlm I. It includes African Americans who have received PhD's in a field of science and also notes those who were the first to
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receive their degree. In addition, there is material on some of the leading African American physician-scientists.
Transcribed written oral histories with African American physicians and scientists are scant. These oral histories are found within larger collections under the headings of "Women in Medicine", and the American Hospital Association's collection (with each oral history catalogued separately). In addition there is an oral history conducted with Vivien Thomas, and one with John C. Eason. Lastly, there are several videotaped oral histories listed under the "'Videos and Films"' section of this inventory.
Photographs and On-line Images of African Americans in Medicine
Print images of African Americans in Medicine are on-line through the National Library of Medicine's website: http :/ wwwi hin . n 1 m . n i h . uov. There are over 200 print images currently part of the database and many more in books in HMD's collection. The Print Image collection is rich in images of African Americans in roles as health professionals serving in various capacities in public health. These include their contributions to public health epidemics, public health nursing, rural health, as well as officers in the US Public Health Service. There are numerous images of African American nurses working in military hospitals and dispensing care in clinics.
Perhaps the most remarkable "undiscovered" collection in IHM is that of African American nurse midwives. I here are 72 images on-line that capture the contributions of these women in educating expecting and post-partum women in their homes, conducting well-baby clinics, and dispensing care in rural communities. There are granny midwives and men midwives. In addition, there are many images of two training schools for African American nurse midwives, one at IVogmore, South Carolina, and one at Florida A & M in Tallahassee, Florida. These include pictures of the faculty and deans, the students in the classroom and in the delivery suite, as well as images of the students and faculty partaking in recreation and graduation exercises.
The IHM collection does include portraits of several leading physicians and some of the leadership of Howard and Meharry Medical Schools. It captures some of the contributions of African Americans to the National Institutes of Health.
All of the print images in this inventory are identified by their order number and whenever possible, are described using the information on the subject card of the photograph itself Lach image is listed under the keyword used to identify the print image in IHM.
Lastly, this inventory includes a list of photographs located in manuscript collections of HMD, and in historical books in HMD's collection. These additional images expand the collection of prints of African Americans in Medicine to over 300. Until these print images are entered into the on-line catalogue, they can be obtained only through acquisition directly from the HMD staff of the National Library of Medicine.
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The second section of "Photographs and On-line Images" lists the on-Hne photographs of African Americans in Medicine by various subject headings, such as physicians and scientists, nurses, midwives and laboratory technicians. These images again can be obtained from htip://\v vv\vihm.nlm.nih.uov through use of the order number Hsted to the left of each image.
Videos and Films of African Americans in Medicine
This is the area most in need of material and yet, the NLM has the majority of known video productions of African Americans in Medicine. The lack of material in the area is a reflection that little effort has been expended to record and document through video oral history the lives and contributions of African Americans to the profession of medicine. Of the 121 oral histories conducted through the Alpha Omega Alpha Leaders in Medicine series, only three were conducted with African Americans, and of the 89 oral histories that comprise the American Hospital Association's collection, only two were conducted with African Americans.
Most of NLM's videos on African Americans in Medicine are found in the general collection and include films on some of the most famous African American physicians as well as more general videos on African American surgeons and radiologists. Several of these videos have published histories that can be used to supplement the video recording.
The video collection also contains recordings of historians who have delivered lectures as part of the NLM's "Black History Month'' .series. I hese presentations capture broader subjects, such as black folk medicine and black burial grounds.
In closing, I would like to thank the managers of HMD's collections who include Jan Lazarus, John Rees, and Nancy Dosch tor their assistance in helping identify materials for this "Guide", Tylka Vetula for proofing the photographs and on-line image section for accuracy, and John Hope Franklin for his editorial suggestions and endorsement.
P. Preston Reynolds, MD, PhD, FACP May 5, 2003
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Books on African Americans in Medicine
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Books on African Americans in Medicine
Physicians, Dentists, Scientists and Healers: Autobiographies, Biographies, and Histories of
General Collection
A utobiographies. Biographies
2000 C-966 Dawson, Patricia L. Forged by the knife: the experience of surgical
residency from the perspective of a woman of color (Seattle, WA: Open Hand Publishing, 1999), 175 pp.
1 998 F-8 1 5 Griffith, Ezra. Race and excellence: my dialogue with Chester Pierce (Iowa City, lA: University of Iowa Press, 1998), 183 pp.
1996 L-743 Elders, M. Jocelyn and David Chanoff. Jocelyn Elders, MP: from sharecropper's daughter to surgeon general of the United States of America (New York, NY: Morrow, 1996), 355 pp., ill.
1996 E-347 Love, Spencie. One blood: the death and resurrection of Charles R. Drew (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1996), 373 pp., ill.
1996F-I20 Skolnik, Neil S. On the ledge: a doctor's stories from the inner city (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1996), 157 pp.
1994 B-516 Payne-Jackson, Arvilla and John Lee. Folk wisdom and mother wit: John Lee, an African American herbal healer (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993), 173 pp., ill.
E 185.97.B5 Berry, Leonidas H. 1 wouldn't take nothin' for my journey: two centuries B534i of an Afro-American minister's family (Chicago, IL: Johnson Publishing
1981 Co., 1981) 459 pp., ill. (Copy also in HMD: E185.97.B5 B534i 1981)
Histories of:
Not yet avail. Johnson, Lenworth N. and OC Bobby Daniels. Breaking the color line in medicine: African Americans in ophthalmology (Thorofare, NJ: SLACK Inc., 2002) Not yet avail.
2000 C-442 Spurlock, Jeanne. Black psychiatrists and American psychiatry
(Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1999), 228 pp.
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1999 B-428 Watson, Wilbur H. Against the odds: Blacks in the medical profession in the United States (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999), 198 pp.
Q 141 Webster, Raymond B. African American firsts in science and
W383a technology (Detroit, Ml: Gale Group, 1999), 462 pp., ill. 1999
Q 141 ICrapp, Kristine M. Notable Black American scientists (Detroit, MI: Gale
N899 Research, 1999), 349 pp. ill. (copy also in HMD: Q 141 N899 1999) 1999
Q 141 Warren, Wini. Black women scientists in the United States (Bloomington,
W294b IN: Indiana University Press, 1999), 366 pp., ill. (copy also in HMD:
1999 Q 141 W294b 1999)
1997 E-874 Oestreich, AE, ed. A centennial history of African Americans in
radiology (Takoma Park, MD: the Section on Radiology of the National Medical Association, 1996),
WZ 1 12.5.R2 Oestreich, Alan E. The history of African American radiology [slide] 52
SL no. 1 slides with co. + guide 1994
WZ 1 12 Epps, Charles H., Jr., Davis G. Johnson, and Audrey Vaughan. African
E64a American medical pioneers (Rockville, MD; Betz Publishing Co., 1994),
1994 254 pp., ill. (Copy also in HMD: WZ 1 12 E64a 1994)
BF 1026 Noll, Joyce Elaine. Company of prophets: African American psychics,
N793c healers, and visionaries (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1991),
1991 270 pp. [19] p. of plates
WU 29 Razzoog, Michael E. and Emerson Robinson. Black dentistry in the 2P'
B627 century (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan School of Dentistry,
1991 1991), 312 pp.
W 22 Sammons, Vivian O. Blacks in science and medicine (New York, NY:
AAl SlSb Hemisphere Publishing Co., 1990), 293 pp. (copy also in HMD: W 22
1990 AAl SlSb 1990)
WZ 1 12.5.S8 Organ, Claude, Margaret Kosiba, and W. Montague Cobb. A century of
C397 black surgeons: the USA experience (Norman, OK: I ranscript Press,
1987 1987), 2 V. 973 pp., ill.
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1 Cobb, W. Montague. The first Negro medical society: a history of the
AD6 M45C Medico-chirurgical society of the District of Columbia 1884-1939
1939 (Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, 1939), 159 pp.
WZ 80 Spencer, Gerald Arthur. Medical symphony: a study of the contributions
S745 m of the Negro to medical progress in New York (New York, 1947). 120 pp.
1947 ill.
Book Chapters:
WZ 80.5. W5 Hine, Darlene Clark. "Co-laborers in the work of the Lord: nineteenth S474 century black women physicians." In: RJ Abram ed. Send us a ladv
1985 physician: women doctors in America, 1835-1920 (New York: Norton,
1985), pp. 107-120.
HMD Collection
W6 P3 Walker, Helen Edith. The Negro in the medical profession
V.5940 (Charlottesyille, VA: University of Virginia, 1 949), 66 pp.
Nursing and Midwifery General Collection
Nursing
2001 0-093 Hunter, Virginia. NBNA: the history of the National Black
Nurses Association, 1971-1999 (Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Co., 2000) 152 pp.
1 999 D- 1 09 Davis, Althea T. Early Black American leaders in nursing: architects for integration and equality (Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1999), 243 pp.
1996 K-400 Mosley, Marie Oleatha Pitts. A history of Black leaders in nursing: the influence of four Black community health nurses on the establishment growth, and practice of public health nursing in New York City, 1900- 1930(1992)
WY 1 1 Hine, Darlene Clark. Black women in white: racial conflict and
AAl H66b cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950 (Bloomington, IN: 1989 Indiana University Press, 1989), 264 pp.
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WY 1 1 Carnegie, Mary Elizabeth. The path we tread: Blacks in nursing. 1 854-
AA 1 C2p 1984 (Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1986), 254 pp., ill. (copy also in
1986 HMD: WY 1 1 AAl C2p 1986)
WZ 100 Pitrone, Jean Maddem. Trailblazer: Negro nurse in the American Red
D261P Cross (New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World. 1969), 191 pp. 1969
WY 19 Thorns, Adah. Pathfinders: a history of the progress of colored graduate
T479p nurses (New York, NY: Kay Printing House, Inc., 1929), 240 pp. 1929
Midwifery
1999A-588 Fraser, Gertrude Jacinta. African American midwifery in the South: dialogues of birth, race, and memory (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 287 pp.
1997 F-561 Fraser, Gertrude Jacinta. Afro-American midwives, biomedicine and the state: an ethnohistorical account of birth and its transformation in rural Virginia (1988), 492 pp.
1996 K-039 Smith, Margaret Charles and Linda Janet Holmes. Listen to me good: the life story of an Alabama midwife (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), pp. 178.
Black Hospitals and Medical Schools, histories of General Collection
2002 A-584 Reynolds, P. Preston. Durham's Lincoln Hospital (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing Co., 200 1 ), 1 28 pp.
1995 D-601 Gamble, Vanessa Northington. Making a place for ourselves: the black
hospital movement, 1920-1945 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995), 265 pp.
1995 H-754 Adams, Eugene W. The legacy: a history of Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine (Tuskegee, AL: Media Center Press, 1995, 284 pp.
WX 28 AN7 Bailey, A. Peter. The Harlem Hospital story: 100 years of struggle against illness, racism, and genocide (Richmond, VA: Native Sun Publishers, 1991), 112 pp.
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WX 28 AN7 Maynard, Aubre de L. Surgeons to the poor: the Harlem Hospital Story (New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1978), pp. 258 pp., ill.
W 18 Curtis, James L. Blacks, medical schools, and society (Ann Arbor. MI:
C979b University of Michigan Press, 1971), 169 pp. (copy also in HMD:
1971 W 18C979b 1971)
WB 24 Cohn, Alfred Einstein. The Sydenham Institution: the Sydenham Hospital,
S982C the Sydenham Institute of the Medical and Related Sciences, the
1 947 Sydenham Institute of Community Relations: a description (New York, NY, 1947), 29pp.
WX 2 AI3 Chicago. Provident Hospital, Training School for Nurses Annual Report,
C5P9a 1933 (copy also in HMD collection, same call no.), 1891-1922.
WX 2 AM3 Baltimore. Provident Hospital and Free Dispensary, Bulletin, 1940 B297
book chapters:
W3 FN 575 Falk, LA and NA Quaynor-Malm, "Early Afro- American medical
1972 education in the United States: the origins of Meharry Medical College in 2 v. 1321 p. the nineteenth century. In: Proceedings of the XXIII International
Congress of the History of Medicine, 1974, pp. 346-356.
WZ 1 12 Gamble, Vanessa Northinglon. "A history of black medical education, E64a 1930-1993." In: African American medical pioneers. Edits. I^pps CH,
1994 Johnson DG, Vaughan AL (Rockville, MD: Betz Publishing Company,
1994), pp. 15-19.
WZ 1 12 CH Epps, DG Johnson, AL Vaughan. Medical education of black E64a Americans from 1868 to 1993. In: African American medical pioneers.
1994 Edits. Epps CH, Johnson DG, Vaughan AL. (Rockville, MD: Betz
Publishing Company, 1994), pp. 7-21.
WZ 112 KR Manning. A history of black medical education, 1868-1929. In:
E64a African American medical pioneers. Edits. Epps CH, Johnson DG,
1994 Vaughan AL (Rockville, MD: Betz Publishing Company, 1994), pp. 8-14.
HMD Collection
HV 1796.M3 Maryland. Institution for the Colored Blind and Deaf-Mutes, Baltimore. S797b Report.
Marlyand. School for the Colored Blind and Deaf, Baltimore, 1858-1885
Report
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HV 2561 .M3 Marlyand. Institute for the Colored Blind and Deaf-Mutes. Baltimore
S797b Biennal report. 1868/69 -1878-79
HV 1796.M3 Maryland. School for the Colored Blind and Deaf. Baltimore Biennal
S799b report. 1885-1906
HV 1796.M3 Maryland. School for the Blind, Baltimore. Department for Colored Blind
S799b and Deaf Biennal Report. 1905/07
HV 995 Brooklyn Howard Colored Orphan Aslym Society, [collection of
B872 publications] [n.d.]
WX 2 Annual Report of Colored Home and Hospital, New York, 1 852- 1 880,
AN7L7a 1880-1888
WX 2 Colored Home and Hospital Annual Report (New York, NY), 1 880- 1 90 1 AN7 L7a
WX2 Lincoln Hospital and Home Annual Report (New York, NY), 1901-1922 AN7 L7a
W2 AN 7 New York Trustees of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, Annual Report,
TSa V. 1-12 [1902-1913] (copy also on microform collection, film S09242)
W 19.5 AI3 Chicago. Provident Hospital, Traininu School for Nurses (collection of
C5P95 publications]
WX 2 AM3 Baltimore. Provident Hospital and Free Dispensary, Annual Report,
B2P7a 1894 -1899
HV T355a Texas. Institute for Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Colored Youths, Austin, TX Annual Report [18881
HV 1796.A2 Biennial report of the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for the
A3 13b Deaf, in charge of the Alabama Institute for the Deaf, Alabama Academy
for the Blind, and the Alabama School for Negro Deaf-mutes and Blind,
1887-1888.
WX U58r United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Report
1878 [on the management] of Freedmen's Hospital. 45'^ Congress, 2d sess. Senate Report, no. 209
W6 P3 Taggart, Paul. Medical facilities for the Colored in the District of
V.5940 Columbia (Emmitsburg, MD: Mount St. Mary's College, 1940), 55 pp.
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W 19 Lamb, Daniel Smith. Howard University Medical Department: a
qH 852h historicaL bioaraphical and statistical souvenir (Washington, DC: R. 1900 Beresford, 1900), 301 pp. (copy in HMD collection)
General Histories of African Americans in Medicine and Black Health Care, Colonial to early 19'^ Century
General Collection
2002 F-485 Fett, Sharla. Working cures: healing, health and power on southern slave plantations (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 290 pp.
1999 C-467 Robinson, Jean W. Black healers during the colonial period and early 19' century America (1979), 143 pp.
1998 G-616 Bankole, Katherine Kemi. Slavery and medicine: enclavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998) 262 pp.
1998 B-784 Blakely, Robert L. and Judith M. Harrington. Bones in the basement:
postmortem racism in nineteenth-century medical training (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997). 380 pp.
1996 K-399 Fett, Sharla M. Body and soul: African American healing in southern antebellum plantation communities, 1800-1860 ( 1 995 ), 408 pp.
DD9060 Cooke, Michael Anthony. I he health of blacks during Reconstruction, 1862-1870 (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1984) 246 pp., ill.
WZ 80.5.B5 Savitt, Todd Lee. Medicine and slavery: the diseases and health care of S267m Blacks in antebellum Virginia (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press,
1978 1978), 322 pp., ill. (copy also located in HMD: WZ 80.5. B5 S267m 1978)
E 185 Wesley, Charles. In freedom's footsteps: from the African background to
161 the Civil War (Comwells Heights, PA: Publishers Agency, 1976),
1976 vo. 9 307 p., ill.
WA 1 1 Savitt, Todd Lee. Sound minds and sound bodies: the diseases and health
AV 8 S26s of Blacks in antebellum Virginia (Charlottesville, VA: Department of
1977F History, 1975) 2 v., 722 pp. ill.
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WZ 80 May, Jude Thomas. The medical care of Blacks in Louisiana during
M489m occupation and Reconstruction. 1862-1868; its social and political
197 IF background (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microtllms, 1972) 187 pp.
WA 900 Postell, William Dosite. The health of slaves on southern plantations
AA 1 P8h (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press. 1951), 231 pp., ill. 1951
General HLstories of African Americans in Medicine and Black Health Care, Post- Reconstruction to Present
General Collection
Bibliographies
80.5.B5 Rice, Mitchell F and Woodrovv Jones. Health of Black Americans from R497h post reconstruction to inteuration, 1871-1960 (New York: Greenwood
1990 Press, 1990), 206 pp.
ZWA 300 Rice, Mitchell 1" and Woodrow Jones. Black American health: an
R497b annotated bibliography (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987), 140 pp. 1987
ZWA 300 David, Lenwood. A history of public health, health problems, facilities
D262h and services in the black community; a working bibliography (Monticello,
1975 IL: Council of Planning Librarians, 1975), 20 pp.
General histories of African American healthcare and hospitals
2001 D-424 Byrd, Michael W. and Linda Clayton. An American health dilemma: a
medical history of African Americans and the problem of race (New York, NY : Routledge, 2000) Also in HMD; WZ 80.B5 B995a 2000
1999 E-435 Smith, David Barton. Health care divided: race and healing a nation (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1999), 386 pp., ill.
1997F-308 Wailoo, Keith. Drawing blood: technology and disease identity in
twentieth-century America (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), 288 pp.
1996 1-910 Smith, Lynn Susan. Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950 (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, 1995), 247pp., ill.
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1996 E-876
1994 L-569
1993 A-012
KK7880
WA300
G375
1989
W84
AAl H433 1987
WZ 80.5. B5
B368h
1987
WA 30
S456b
1973
W6 P3 V.7025
WZ 80 R379n 1958
W6 P3 V.6046
W6 P3 V.5940
W6 P3 V.5799
Seemes, Clovis. Racism, health and post-industrialism: a theory^ of African-American health (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996). 178 pp.
Rice, Mitchell and Woodrow Jones. Public policN and the black hospital: from slavery to segregation to integration (Westport. CT: Greenwood Press, 1994), 152 pp.
Smith, Lynn Susan. Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women and the national Negro health movement, 1915-1950 (1991), 357 pp., ill.
Wailoo, Keith. Drawing blood: medical conceptions of disease in 20"^ century American, from chlorosis to sickle cell anemia ( 1 992), 4 1 9 pp.
Gamble, Vanessa Northington. Germs have no color line (New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 1989), 163 pp., ill.
Jones, Woodrow and Mitchell Rice. Health care issues in Black America: policies, problems and prospects (New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1987), 255 pp.
Beardsley, Edward. A history of neglect: health care for blacks and mill workers in the twentieth-century South (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1987), 383 pp., ill.
Seham, Max. Blacks and American medical care (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1973), 136 pp.
National Urban League. Health care and the Negro population (New York, NY, 1965), 34 pp. (copy in HMD collection)
Reitzes, Dietrich. Negroes and medicine (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958), 400 pp., ill.
National Negro Fellowships. Negroes in medicine (Chicago, IL, 1953), 44 pp.
Walker, Helen Edith.The Negro in the medical profession (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia, 1949), 66 pp.
Cobb, W. Montague. Medical care and the plight of the Negro (New York, NY: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1947), 38 pp. (copy in HMD collection)
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WZ 80 Cobb, W. Montague. Progress and portents for the Negro in medicine
C653p (New York, NY: National Association for the Advancement of Colored
1948 People, 1948), 53 pp., ill.
WA 1 00 Journal of the Negro Education. The health status and health education of
J86h Negros in the United States (Washington. DC. 1937). pp. 261-587. 1937
WX 28 Corwin, Edward Henry and Gertrude Sturges. Opportunities for the
AN 7 H2C medical education of Negroes (New York, NY: C. Scribner's Sons. 1936),
1936 293 pp., ill.
WZ 1 50 Kenney, John A. The Negro in medicine (Tuskegee. AL: Tuskegee
K36n Institute Press, 1912), 60 pp., ill, plates (copy in HMD collection) 1912
Tuskegee Syphilis Study
2000 I- 1 85 Reverby, Susan. Tuskegee's truths: rethinking the Tuskegee syphilis study
(Chapel Hill, NC: Uniyersity of North Carolina, 2000), 630 p., ill.
WC 160 Jones, James. Bad blood: the Tuskegee syphilis experiment (New
J77b York, NY: Free Press, 1981), 272 p., ill.
1981
Health of African Americans with a focus on a disease or geographic area
2001 G-525 Wailoo, Keith. Dying in the city of the blues: sickle anemia and the
politics of race and health (Chapel Hill, NC: Uniyersity of North Carolina Press, 2001), 338 pp. (also HMD: WH 11 AT2 W139d 2001)
1999 C-1 13 Tapper, Melbourn. In the blood: sickle cell anemia and the politics of race (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvnia, 1999), 163 pp.
2003 A- 164 Hart, Jamie. African Americans, health care, and the reproductive freedom movement in Detroit, 1918-1945 ( 1 999), 3 1 2 pp.
1997 L-776 Hardman, Peggy. The anti-tuberculosis crusade and the Texas African- American community, 1990-1950 (1997). 274 pp.
1995 F-300
Poirier, Suzanne. Chicago's war on syphilis, 1937-1940: the times, the trib, and the clap doctor: with an epilogue on issues and attitudes in the
times on AIDS (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1955), 271 pp., ill
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EE3455 McBride, David. Black health care labor and the Philadelphia medical establishment. 1910-1965 (New York, NY, 1980), 388., ill.
WM 16 Malzberg, Benjamin. The health of the Negro: a study of first admissions M262mn to hospitals for mental disease in New York State. 1949-1951 (Albany, 1963 Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, 1962), 239 pp.
WA 590 Bent, Michael James. Rural Negro health: a report on a five-year J75r experiment in health education in Tennessee (Nashville, TIM: Julius
1937 Rosenwald Fund, 1937), 85 p., ill.
HMD Collection
E M379o Martin, Asa Earl. Our Negro population; a sociological study of the 1913 Negroes of Kansas City, Missouri (New York, Negro Universities Press,
1969), 189 pp.
W6 P3 David, Michael Marks and Hugh H. Smythe. Providing adequate
V.5833 health services to Negroes (New York: Committee on Research in Medical
Education, 1949), 15 p.
W6 P3 Atlanta Urban League. A report on hospital care of the Negro population
V.5823 of Atlanta, Georgia, 1947
W6 P3 Tandy, Elizabeth Carpenter. The health situation of Negro mothers and
V.5776 babies in the United States (Washington, DC: Children's Bureau, 1940), 9
p., ill.
W6 P3 Dublin, Louis Israel. The reduction in mortality among colored
V.5750 policyholders: an address delivered before the annual conference of the
National Urban League, October 21, 1920
W3 C33 Chase, Thomas N. Mortality among Negroes in cities: proceedings of the 1896m conference for Investigations of City Problems, Atlanta, 1896 (Atlanta,
GA: Atlanta University Press, 1903), 24 pp.
W6 P3 Blodgett, James H. The Negro in the United States (Washington, DC,
V.7481 1894), 43 pp.
box 215, no. 14
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Manuscripts and Oral Histories of African Americans in Medicine
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Manuscript Collections and Oral Histories of African Americans in Medicine, and Material on African Americans in Medicine in Manuscript and Oral Histor> Collections in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine
There are four manuscript collections that relate specifically to African Americans in Medicine. These collections include:
1. Berry, Leonidas Harris, MP (MS C 423) Dr. Berry was a leader of the African American medical profession serving as president of the National Medical Association in 1965-1966 and thus, was very involved in the national effort to racially integrate hospitals. He practiced in Chicago, IL, as a gastroenterologist and as a subspecialist was a member of predominantly white professional organizations. His collections includes information about his family and medical training with residency at Freedmen's Hospital as well as the Chicago Commission on Human Rights, Cook County Hospital, Provident Hospital (Chicago), and Presbyterian Hospital (Chicago). There are photographs of Dr. Berry serving as teacher of residents and practicing physicians in the use of various gastroscopes at education programs at Cook County Hospital, the National Medical Association and the Pan American Congress on Gastroenterology (1960). These photographs include African American residents and nurses.
2. Comely, Paul, MD, PhD (unprocessed)
Dr. Comely was Professor of Preventive Medicine at Howard University School of Medicine, and very active in the American Public Health Association and national efforts to racially integrate health care.
3. Eason, John C. (unprocessed) (MS ACC 625)
John C. Easton, Jr., was the first African American Commissioned Corps officer in 1943. He worked as a Sanitarian in the Public Health Service in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and thus, his experiences capture the challenges faced by African American professionals in a segregated society with separate restaurants, hotels, etc. With this collection, there is an oral history with John Eason conducted as part of the PHS Centennial Archive project.
4. Elders, Jocelyn , MD (unprocessed)
This collection contains the speeches given by Dr. Elders during her term as Surgeon General. She was the first African American Surgeon General of the US Public Health Service.
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There are a number of manuscript collections that contain materials related to "African Americans in Medicine" or black hospitals, nursing schools, medical schools and professional associations. These manuscript collections and specific materials include the following:
Abdellah. Faye Glenn, EdD, LLP, ScD, RN, FAAN (MS C 424)
Dr. Abdellah retired from the Public Health Service in 1989 as Deputy Assistant Surgeon General. Her collection focuses mostly on her activities in nursing research and as a leader in the US Public Health Service and thus includes a list of her extensive publications, speeches and awards and citations. There are several photographs that include African American nurses serving in the US Public Health Service: May 18, 1975 - Nurses Memorial Service at Arlington Cemetery; May 1977 and October 1981 - Staten Island Hospital; and a Flag Meeting, 1987. A photograph taken in 1971 includes Mary Lee Mills, RN, who was active in the US PHS, and at the time of her retirement was the highest ranking African American nurse in the military.
Adriani, John, MD (MS C 453)
The history of Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the 1950s and 1960s as an example of a public hospital that cared for underserved and minority populations.
American College of Nursc-Midwives (MS C 330 and MS C 330a) This manuscript collection has a rich source of photographs that depict African American nurse midwives in the roles of care-givers, teachers, students, and deans of schools. There are many images that illustrate various aspects of the training program for African American nurse-midwivcs at the Midwife Institute at Frogmore, South Carolina and at the Midwife Institute at Florida A&M College in Tallahassee, Florida. In addition, there is material on Meharry Medical College and its training school for nurse midwives
The collection was expanded with inclusion of material from 1945 and from 1976-1994. This new material includes few photographs. There is manuscript material related to the Meharry Medical College School of Nurse-Midwifery.
Association of American Medical Colleges (MS C 267)
Subject headings related to "African Americans in Medicine" are "Discrimination", "Negroes in Medicine", and Meharry Medical College. These include copies of Dr. Montague Cobb's two landmark studies on discrimination against African Americans in professional education published in 1947 and 1948. material on discrimination against minorities in admission to college, the national Negroes in Medicine Fellowship programs, reprints of articles on the number of African American medical students, and pre-medical education of African American students, and Meharry Medical School's 1963 LCME site visit and 1966 long-term strategic development plan
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Brown, Bertram S., MP (MS C 493)
Former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Brown's papers include speeches he gave on the impact of racism on mental health. His collection also documents his efforts to recruit minorities into the leadership of NIMH.
Hill, Lister (MS film 22)
Most of Lister Hill's collection is located at the University of Alabama. Files that relate specifically to ''African Americans in Medicine" include Box 12 - Hill-Burton, Public Health Service, state hospitals wanting assistance from Medicare. There are other materials that relate to African Americans under subject headings of "racial". "Civil Rights", etc.
National League of Nursing, National Organization of Public Health Nursing, and American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses (MS C 274) This file contains several photographs that capture African American public health nurses providing care in well-baby clinics, standing outside the Savannah (GA) Health Clinic, and participating as students in classes. There is one photograph of an African American nurse mid-wife, and a photograph of Willie Mae Jones, RN (1955) who served on the board of directors of the National League of Nursing.
Public Health Service Hospitals, History of (MS C 471)
There are files of administrative correspondence with Freedmen's Hospital (1945-1965), and documentation of the transfer of Freedmen's Hospital from the federal government to Howard University between 1961 and 1967.
Regional Medical Programs: (Accession # 705) Dr. Leonidas Berry - reminiscences and scrapbook
Sydenham Hospital (Baltimore) (MS C 243)
This hospital served as the contagion hospital for Baltimore. The collection contains detailed patient records and special material related to the epidemics of typhoid fever (1920-1945), poliomyelitis (1937-1949), meningitis (1938-1947), and other less confined epidemics such as diphtheria and rabies. There are materials on Negro Health Week, 1941.
US DHEW Tuskegee Syphilis Study, 1973 (MS C 264)
These materials document the origin and development of the Tuskegee Syphilis study and the commission chaired by Broadus N. Butler, president of Dillard University, who terminated the program in 1973. The nurse who administered the program under the direction of US PHS physicians was African American.
Public Health Centennial Files (Accession # 627)
Black Commissioned Officers; Freedmen's Hospital, Non-discrimination Statement (hospitals) 1965.
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There may be some material on African Americans in Medicine in the following MSS collections of HMD of NLM:
Still, James (0403161) - early recollections and life of Dr. James Still, 1812-1885, MESH Subject headings: history of medicine, blacks - history, biography
Carter, Harry Gilmore (HMD W6 P3 v. 5999) - Blacks and medical care with a focus on tuberculosis, [c.l927]
Dublin, Louis Israel, MD, 1882-1969 (HMD MS C 316) - Dr. Dublin, vice president and statistician of the Metropolitan Insurance Company, was with the company from 1909- 1952. He was president or director of many public health institutions including the American Statistical Association, the American Public Health Association, the Population Association of America, the American Cancer Society, the National Tuberculosis Association, and the National Health Council. His analytic studies included work on birth rates, vital statistics trends, suicide, accident rates, mortality rates of whites and African Americans, and the increasing of aged Americans.
**** One of the richest sources of information on African Americans in the Sciences is authored by Mitchell Brown: wwu .princcion.cdu' mchrown (.lispkiv Taccs.html. This website houses a listing of the African Americans in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, entomology, genetics, inventors, mathematics, computer science, meteorology, medicine, veterinary medicine, geology and oceanography, protozoology, and zoology. Each individual listed has a biographical sketch, many with a photograph, and a bibliography where more biographical information can be found.
Oral Histories of African Americans in Medicine HMD of NLM
Primary Care Oral Histories by Fitzhuuh Mullen, MD (Accession # 97-18) This collection contains oral histories with African American health professionals who are involved in primary care, fhese individuals include Dr. Carl Toney, Dr. Sallyann Bowman, Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee, and Dr. Reed Tuckson.
Oral Histories by Dr. Milton Senn (OH 20) Interview with Dr. Jeanne Spurlock
Women in Medicine (OH 77)
Vanessa Gamble (1953- )
Interview conducted March 15, 1978. At the time of the interview, Vanessa Gamble was in medical school and a doctoral candidate in medical sociology.
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Victoria Nichols, MD (1944- )
Interview conducted March 24, 1978. At the time of the interview. Dr. Nichols was on faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She attended Howard University School of Medicine for two years and transferred to the University of Michigan where she obtained her MD. She completed her internship and residency at Mayo Clinic in obstetrics and gynecology.
Jeanne Spurlock, MD (1921- )
Interview conducted June 2, 1978. At the time of the interview. Dr. Spurlock was Deputy Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association. She obtained her MD from Howard University and then interned at Provident Hospital in Chicago. She completed her residency at Cook County Psychopathic Hospital and a fellowship in child psychiatry at the Institute for Juvenile Research. Dr. Spurlock served in a number of faculty positions including chair of the department of psychiatry at Meharry Medical College before assuming her position at the APA.
American Hospital Association (89 oral histories shelved in the general collection, each with individual call numbers - search "Hospital administration oral history collection", two are of African Americans)
W. Montague Cobb, MD (1994 G-364)
This oral history with Dr. Cobb focuses mainly on his childhood years, early education, and college experiences at Amherst College. I hcre is some mention of his early faculty years at Howard University School of Medicine and his testimony before the Senate on the Hill-Burton Act. Interview conducted by Lewis E. Weeks on March 23, 1981.
Haynes Rice, MHA (1994 G-309)
This oral history traces Mr. Rice's career in hospital administration first at Kate B. Reynolds Hospital in Winston-Salem through to his career as a hospital administrator in Florida and then in New York City. The oral history provides insight into the challenges faced by African American hospital administrators and efforts to encourage younger blacks to enter the field. Mr. Rice articulates the value of black institutions in providing role modeling to black youth, particularly in the area of hospital administration and health careers. Interview conducted by Lewis E. Weeks on April 17, 1980.
Vivien Thomas (OH 15)
Dr. Peter Olch conducted this oral history with Vivien Thomas who served as laboratory research assistant for Dr. Alfred Blalock, and who with Dr. Helen Taussig, developed the Blalock-Taussig shunt for surgical correction of Tetralology of Fallot.
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John C. Eason (HMD MS ACC 658)
John Corbett Eason was the first Aft"ican American to receive a commission in the US PubHc Health Service in 1943. He worked primarily as a Sanitarian and served as a role model for many young commissioned officer.
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Photographs and On-line Images of African Americans in Medicine
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Photographs and On-line Images of African Americans in Medicine
On-line Images by Keywords: Blacks, African Americans, Colored, Negro
(as of 3/20/03)
Keyword: Colored
A02406 US Army Hospital, Beaufort. SC - black soldiers hospital [c. 1 864] A02407 US Army Hospital, Beaufort, SC - black soldiers hospital [c. 1 864]
Keyword: Blacks
A05363 US Army, Sternberg General Hospital, Camp Thomas. Chichamauga, GA. African American Soldiers at Army Hospital [c.l898]
A05280 US Army, Hospital, Fort Benning. GA. African American nurse taking
weight of boy in a classroom; School clinic for African American children
AO 10978 Gorgas Hospital, Ancon, Canal Zone. Patient ward with African
American patients; Interior view of Ward 13 (African American) [c.l919]
AOl 1524 US American National Red Cross Hospital No. 5, Paris, France.
White and African American Soldiers, African American Nurses; Caption: Lt. Europe's Colored Band
AO 167 10 Child being weighed at an improvised baby station and child health clinic set-up inside a church; National League for Nursing Archives, 1894-1952 (MS C 274)
AO 16075 Interior of a church: several men and women sit with many black women wearing nursing uniforms; a bed and a table are in the foreground; an African America instructor at the bedside and another African American nurse sits at a table on the left [SC State Board of Health]; American College of Nurse-Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
A027487 Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of DHEW, arriving at Lister Hill Center, August 1980, for the inauguration of Vincent DeVita as Director of NCI.
A0325 1 9 "Dr. Stallings learned to serve the underserved", poster for the National 1 lealth Service Corps
AO 179 10 African American man in white coat holding two rats, one 550 gm and one 1445 gm, as part of obesity studies, NIH; National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases [c.l955]
AOl 7923 African American female laboratory technician working in Laboratory of Molecular Biology at NIH; National Institute with Neurological Disorders and Stroke [c.l96'o's]
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AOl 8606 African American man in white uniform positioning x-ray tube for dental x-rays; NIH - National Institute of Dental Research
A029605 An African American female dentist working on a young boy's teeth [Source: Mississippi State Board of Health, Jacksonville, Mississippi]
A029606 An African American female dentist examining several children's teeth [Source: Mississippi State Board of Health, Jacksonville, Mississippi]
A029601 Herman G. Morgan Health Center, Dental Clinic. Indianapolis, IN.
Interior view of a dental office with a patient sitting in the dental chair and an African American dentist standing next to him.[c.l947]
B08515 Adah B. Thorns, from Pathfinders: A History of the Progress of Colored
Graduate Nurses [c.l927]
A030529 Gerry R. Holden; illustrated in Johns Hopkins Hospital album, 1903-1904. Caption: Operation on black person is in progress
A02968 1 African American as nurse's aid
AO 16041 Two laboratory workers, probably US Public Health Service members, examining material under a microscope during the New Orleans plague campaign; worker in foreground possibly African American Ic.1914-19201
A029555 Chicago, IL - Ida B. Wells Housing Project
A group of nine boys dressed in Cub Scouts uniforms [c.l942]
A030374 Ida B. Wells Housing Project, young boys in Cub Scouts uniforms. Troop 446.[c.l942]
Keyword: African American (several of the print images under this keyword arc cited above)
A029535 Planner House. Indianapolis: three children, 2 boys and 1 girl [c.l940's]
A030252 African American mother feeding baby in Well-Baby Clinic, Herman G. Morgan Health Center, Indianapolis, IN, [c.l947]
Keyword: Negro
Print images not appropriate
Keyword: Black Nurse*
Black Student Nurses Around the World [c.l953] A023441 Aruba
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A023444
A023445
A023447
A023451
A023452
A023461
A023463
A023470
A023473
A023483
A023488
A023489
A023504
A023509
Bahamas
Barbados
Belgian Congo
British Guiana
British Honduras
Dakar
Dominica
Gold Coast
Haiti
Jamaica
Liberia
Madagascar
So. Rhodesia
Trinidad
Keyword: Freedmen's Hospital
AO 102 13 African American Cadet Nurse adjusting traction of African American patient
AO 18025 Front of hospital
AO 1 8026 African American nurses on front steps of Freedmen's Hospital
AO 1 8457 Actor Ossie Davis talks to four pediatric patients at Freedmen's Hospital.
Davis stands in upper right comer with an African American physician behind him.
Keyword: Meharry Medical School
B03415 David Vemard Bradley (c.19551
B03649 Dorothy L. Brown - An African American surgeon standing with small child in foreground [c.1959]
B03650 Dorothy L. Brown - An African American surgeon holding fountain pen in white coal [c.i959J (same photo as B03649 only close up of Dr. Brown)
B04418 Ralph J. Cay.ort [c.l955]
B05655 E. Perry Crump, MD - An African American pediatrician [c.l955]
B05660 John R. Cuff, MD [c.l940]
B05659 John R. Cuff, MD [c. 1 940]
BOl 5232 Walter Fitz Bemell James. MD [c. 1 956]
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A029580 A little African American girl is sitting in a dental chair with an African American dental assistant standing next to her
Keyword: Provident Hospital
A029946 Newborn nursery with African American babies and two African American male attendants [c.l945]
Keyword: Leonidas Berry, MP
B028 1 9 Portrait - An African American gastroenterologist
A014661 National Advisory Council on Regional Medical Programs B02820 Dr. Berry with Endoscope
Keyword: Paul Comely, MP
B0537 1 Portrait - An African American epidemiologist and Professor of
Preventive Medicine at Howard University School of Medicine [c.l955]
Keyword: W. Montauue Cobb, MP
B04805 Portrait [c. 1 949] - An African American physician-scientist and Professor
of Anatomy and Anthropology at Howard University School of Medicine
B04806 Seated beside several bone specimens with skeleton in the background,
holding calipers [c. 1 970]
B04807 Pistinguished Service Award
Keyword: Charles Prew, MP
B030088 Portrait - African American surgeon and Chief of Surgery at Howard University School of Medicine
AO 16534 NIH Exhibit - Mrs. Minnie Prew, widow of Pr. Charles Prew, poses with Pr. Ponald Fredrickson. director of NIH, at the unveiling of a bust and exhibit honoring Pr. Prew. Mrs. Prew stands in front of a poster titled: Charles Richard Prew, MP, 1904-1950. [c. June 1, 1981]
Keyword: Public Health Nursing
B010768 Ethel May Jones. RN. an African American public health nurse; National League for Nursing Archives, 1894-1952 (MS C 274)
AOl 6709 Savannah Health Center with African American nurse standing by car; National League for Nursing Archives, 1894-1952 (MS C 274)
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A014810
A0148n
B09990
AO 167 10 Baby being weighed by African American nurses at an improvised baby station and child health clinic set up in a church with African American mothers and babies in background; National League for Nursing Archives. 1894-1952 (MSG 274)
Prenatal Class with African American mothers and nurse; National League for Nursing Archives, 1 894- 1 952 (MS C 274)
Nurses training program with class of white and African American nurses; National League for Nursing Archives, 1894-1952 (MS C 274)
Eugenia Broughton, RN, an African American nurse midwife: African American patients and nurse mid-wives standing outside of the Mobile Clinic for the Reformed Episcopal Church. Berkeley Co. Public Health Department; American College of Nurse-Midvvives Archives. 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09991 Interior view of the Mobile Clinic for the Reformed Episcopal Church,
Berkeley Co. Public Health Department showing Miss Broughton taking the blood pressure of an African American woman holding her infant; American College for Nurse-Midwives Archives. 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09992 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, at the Mobile
Clinic for the Reformed Episcopal Church. Berkeley Co. Public Health Department; American College for Nurse-Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09993 African American nurse midwives and patients standing outside of the
Mobile Clinic for the Reformed Episcopal Church. Berkeley Co. Public Health Department; American College for Nurse-Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
Keyword: Children's Bureau
A0I6140 African American nurses measuring girls' height and weight
A029535 Planner House, Indianapolis. IN
A029657 An African American child standing on a scale being weighed by an African American school nurse [c.l950]
A030252 African American mother feeding baby in Well-Baby Clinic. Herman G. Morgan Health Center, Indianapolis, IN [c.l9471
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On-line Images of African Americans in Medicine by General Subject Headings
Keyword: Ambulance
A0291 1 US Army Hospital No. 12, Bonvillers, France. Wounded men being
removed from ambulances; African American men in photo
AOS 169 US Army Stark General Hospital, Charleston, SC. Soldiers on stretchers await ambulances to take them to the wards; African American as soldiers with Red Cross bands
A023610
Horse-drawn Ambulance: View of federal ambulance
Keyword: Anatomy
B04805 Dr. W. Montague Cobb - portrait [c. 1 949]
B04806 Dr. W. Montague Cobb - anatomy lab [c. 1 970]
Seated beside several bone specimens with skeleton in the background, holding calipers
Keyword: Army Hospital
B029583 US Army Military Medical Corps, 1860-1895: Citizen's Hospital. African American far right, top row
Keyword: Blood
AOl 1 134 Middlesex Hospital, London, Eng. Examination of blood by Black laboratory technician or physician
AO 14456 An African American laboratory technician extracts plasma from whole blood
A014721 African American biologist John Owens of the National Cancer Institute Biology Branch separates antibodies from other proteins in the blood serum of rabbits that have been immunized with antigen found in tumor cells. He is operating a chromatograph.
B09991 Interior view of the mobile clinic at the Reformed Episcopal Church,
Berkeley Co. Public Health Department showing Miss Broughton, RN. an African American nurse midwife, taking the blood pressure of an African American woman holding her infant
A024810 African American woman in poster promoting blood donation. Caption, "Become One of the Special People"
Keyword: Cancer
AOl 7823 NIH-NCl Cancer Research. A group photograph of the NCI staff that includes a number of African .Americans
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AO 17824 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. Six people including one African American woman in a white coat
A020029 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. Two African American men moving (? Animals); one is in a lab coat
A020027 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. Two men looking at mice, one is African American, both in lab coats
A020026 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. Two men looking at mice, one is African American, both in lab coats
A020025 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. Two men looking at mice, one is African American, both in lab coats
A020023 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. Three men with mice cages, two are African American, all appear to be lab personnel
A 020022 NlH-NCl Cancer Research. African American lab technician.
A020021 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. African American lab techician.
A020020 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. African American lab technician.
Keyword: Child Care
A018004 Miss Beverly f illips. RN, an African American Nurse from the USOM
Public Health, attempts to comfort young African American child after an operation on his right arm; the child is held by this mother.
AO 1 8475 African American mothers and children wait in an outer room at a pediatric clinic
A029845 Interior view of a children's health clinic. An African American child is having this throat examined by an African American public health nurse; the other African American children are sitting against a wall waiting their turn
Keyword: Dispensary
AO 102 10 Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, Washington, DC. Outdoor dispensary patients with white and African American patients sealed
AO 1021 1 Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, Washington, DC. African American man getting x-ray'd
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Keyword: Malaria
A030027 TVA malaria control - rural farm with an African American family A030029 TVA malaria control - rural farm with an African American family
Keyword: Midwives
B09891 Eugenia Forde, an African American nurse midwife. American College of
Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09892 Mary Lee Mills, RN, African American nurse who served in the US Public
Health Service and US Army; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09901 Laura Blackburn, RN, standing outside by car while African American
nurses gather closer to building; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09895 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center. Frogmore, South Carolina.
View of two African American group leaders selected and trained by Miss Blackburn; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09896 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
African American head group leader pinning a midwife badge on Mr. Russ Richardson, making him an honorary midwife; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09897 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center. Frogmore, South Carolina.
Fwo African American teachers at the Midwife Institute having a conference at lunch; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09898 Midwife Institute. Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
An African American nurse midwiie instructs two African American students in the proper procedures for caring for hospitalized patients; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives. 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09899 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
An African American nurse midwife instructs three African American students in the proper procedures for caring for patient in bed; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09900 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
Instruction in the proper procedures for caring for a patient; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
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B09902 Laura Blackburn stands in the street near a car outside a building. African American nurses are behind the cars and closer to the building; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09903 Laura Blackburn, African American nurse midwife; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
AO 14830 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
View of the entrance from the road, building seen slightly through the trees; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives. 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
AO 14831 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
Exterior view showing a group of students sitting on the steps waiting for the lunch bell to ring; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
A014832 Midwife Institute. Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
This picture shows a public health nurse, nutritionists, nurse midwives, head group leaders of the institute and mental health consultants viewing lesson plans, schedule of activities, the midwife certificate registration, birth certification; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946- 1976 (MS C 330)
A014833 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
Group of four African American nurse-midwife students talking on grounds of the Midwife Institute; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
AO 14834 Midwife Institute. Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
Two African American midwife students standing near the bell on the grounds of the Midwife Institute; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
AO 14835 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
Sadie Nickpeay, an African American nurse midwife, counseling African American parents in their home from a book on pre-natal care; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
AO 14836 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center. Frogmore, South Carolina.
Midwife students beginning the day with a formal march into the general session; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
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AO 14837 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
Midwife students enjoy tiie meal in the dining hall, not an empty table to be found; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives. 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
A014838 Midwife Institute. Penn Community Center, Frogmore. South CaroMna.
Showing the midwife students enjoying their meal in the dining room: American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
AO 14839 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
This is a typical scene showing eight African American students who studied each morning with a teacher and in the afternoon were assigned to observe or participate in a classroom; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
AO 14840 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
This is a typical scene showing eight African American students who studied each morning with a teacher and in the afternoon were assigned to observe or participate in a classroom; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09912 Maude Collen, an African American nurse midwife, offers instruction to
new African American mother in a nursery; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B0991 3 Maude Collen, an African American nurse midwife, visits a home to
inspect an African American child's immunization scars; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09914 Maude Collen, an African American nurse midwife, immunizing an
African American infant being held by his mother with a student looking on; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09915 Maude Collen, an African American nurse midwife, receives a plaque in
August 1973; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09916 Maude Collen, an African American nurse midwife, conducting a class
with African Americans at the State Board of Health's Midwife Institute at Frogmore fcT950]. Photo shows a group of students and an African American pregnant woman on a stretcher; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
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B0991 7 At the Midwife Institute, African American midwives learn about the importance of a good diet for their patients; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09919 Ethel Jones Kirkland, RN, an African American nurse midwife; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09920 Ethel Jones Kirkland, RN, teaching an African American public health nurse and her small class of lay midwives in a typical County Health Department class setting; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09921 Ethel Kirkland and a class session at the Tallahassee Midwife Institute
August 1933; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09959 An elderly African American woman holding an infant. Caption: The yearly meeting with African American nurses of the State Board of Health; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Joyce Ely Papers (MS C 330)
B09963 Girtha R. Wilkerson, an African American midwife: American College of
Nurse Midwives Archives. 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09966 Deola L. Cyrus, an African American midwife and others; View of eight
African American nurse midwives at the midwife meeting, Clinton, LA lc.l955]; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09967 Two African American nurse midwives utilize the technique of role-
playing through the use of puppets; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
AO 14843 Twelve African American midwives receive instruction in midwifery;
American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Deolo Lange Cyrus Papers (MS C 330)
B09968 A granny midwife, view of an African American woman sitting on the
wooden steps to her home; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Deolo Lange Cyrus Papers (MS C 330)
B09969 View of eleven African American midwives; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Deolo Lange Cyrus Papers (MS C 330)
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B09970 Deolo Lange Cyrus, an African American nurse midwife instructs African American student nurse midwives in cleanliness; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09971 Deolo Lange Cyrus, an African American nurse midwife, observes as
African American student nurse midwives practice birthing techniques; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09974 African American mothers with their children gather at midwife's home for immunizations of children; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Deolo Lange Cyrus Papers (MS C 330)
B09985 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife; American
College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09986 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife in a school clinic
in Cainhoy, SC [c.l949]; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09987 Seven African American women receive instruction in bathing an infant
by Eugenia Broughton; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09988 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, standing on the
porch of a school clinic with an African American family; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09989 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, and the
Berkeley County Midwives; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09990 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, and the
Berkeley County Midwives; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09991 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, and the
Berkeley County Midwives; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09992 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, and the
Berkeley County Midwives; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09993 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, and the
Berkeley County Midwives; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives. 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
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B09994 View of Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, sitting at a desk in front of a blackboard; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09995 View of Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, and two other African American women in a classroom in front of the blackboard; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09996 View of African American women meeting to discuss the Midwives Institute; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Eugenia Broughton Papers (MS C 330)
B09997 View of African American midwives gathering outside - playful;
American College of Nurse Midwives Archives. 1946-1976; Eugenia Broughton Papers (MS C 330)
B09998 Eugenia Broughton. an African American nurse midwife, conducts
examination of pregnant African American woman; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
BOIOOO African American teachers and obser\'ers of the Midwives Institute, Penn
Community Center gathered for a group photo (c.l9531; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Eugenia Broughton Papers (MS C 330)
BO 1 0001 African American nurse midwives receive instruction outside under trees;
American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
BO 10002 Exterior view of Clinic showing Miss Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, and a patient: American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09981 Clinic in church in Cainhoy. SC. showing Eugenia Broughton, an African
American nurse midwife, and several African American mothers with their babies; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B09982 Interior view of a health center (in a trailor) showing an African American infant being examined; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
1^09983 An African American man being examined by a white doctor at an
outdoor clinic at the Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church in Cainhoy, SC. An African American nurse assists; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Eugenia Broughton Papers (MS C 330)
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B09977 Mamie Hale, an African American nurse midwife, demonstrates timing labor pains for correct delivery using an obstetrical dummy; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Deolo Lange Cyrus Papers (MS C 330)
B010024 J. R.E.Lee, an African American physician at the Midwives Institute at Florida A&M College, Tallahassee, FL [c.l933]; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330
B010025 L.H.B.Foote - an African American man at the Midwives Institute at Florida A&M College, Tallahassee, FL [c.l933]; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives. 1946-1976; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
B010026 An African American woman who serves as Dean of Women at Midwives Institute at Florida A&M College, Tallahassee, FL [c.l933]; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976, Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
BO 10027 Group of African American midwives on the steps of the Midwives
Institute at l lorida A&M College, l allahassee, FL (c.l933]; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
BO 10028 African American nurse midwife student at Midwives Institute at Florida A&M College, Tallahassee, FL [c.I933]; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives. 1946-1^)76; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
BO 10029 African American students in front of building at Midwives Institute at Florida A&M College, Tallahassee, FL [c.l933]; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives. 1946-1976; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
B0I0030 Florida A&M College Institute for Midwives, Tallahassee, FL. A group of African American student nurse midwives; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
B0I0031 I-lorida A&M College Institute for Midwives, Tallahassee, FL. African American nurse midwife; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
BO 10032 Florida A&M College Institute for Midwives, Tallahassee, FL. African American male nurse midwife, American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
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BO 10033 Florida A & M College Institute for Midwives, Tallahassee, FL. African American male nurse midwife; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
BO 10039 African American granny midwives gathered for group photo in western
Florida; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
BO 10040 African American granny midwives gathered for meetings; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
BO 10041 African American granny midwife at a West Florida Granny Midwives meeting; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
BO 10042 African American granny midwife at a West Florida Granny Midwives meeting; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
BO 10043 African American granny midwives at a West Florida Granny Midwives meeting; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Lalla Mary Goggans Papers (MS C 330)
B09975 An African American midwife instructs an African American male parent
how to fill out a birth certificate; American College of Nurse Midwives Archives, 1946-1976; Deola Lange Cyrus Papers (MS C 330)
Keyword: Nurse*
A01813 Indian Hospital, Sante Fe, New Mexico. African American nurse in nursery
A09684 US Air Force Hospital, Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, LA. African American nurse in a nursery
AO 1 1 106 Middlesex Hospital. London. Eng. Black nurse giving baby a stomach washout
AOl 1755 US American National Red Cross Evacuation Hospital No. 1 14, Fleury- sur-Aisne, France. Nurses attending patients in Ward M; African American nurses or nurse assistant in photograph.
A022597 Military hospital. Nurse playing records for sick soldiers. Photo includes an African American nurse
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A014458 A Clinical Center nurse comforts an African American child in a wheelchair
AO 14800 African American physician examining an infant while an African American assistant and infant's mother look on; National League of Nursing Archives, 1894-1952 (MS C 274)
A015180 African American nurse with baby at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center's AAF Regional Hospital
A030403 PHS physician treats the foot of an elderly woman in a hospital room. African American nurse assists.
A029834 An African American nurse getting the medical history of an African American patient holding baby with a child standing close
A029850 Care of African American newborns in a nursery by two African
American nurses. One African American nurse is weighing a newborn.
AO 1 8544 African American child receives an immunization shot in her leg from a nurse. Infant sitting in lap of mother with young child standing close.
AO 15905 African American Army nurses enjoy bike ride while awaiting assignment
AO 15891 Army nurses in operating room at 40'*^ (jcncral Hospital. Photo includes African American nurse assisting with the operation
Keyword: Nurseries
B09912 Maude Collen, an African American nurse midwife, offers instruction to
new African Americans mothers in a nursery; American College of Nurse- Midwives Archives, 1946-1976 (MS C 330)
Nursinu Schools
AO 16063 School of Practical Nursing at Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York City.
Interior view: Several women wearing uniforms work at various stations performing such tasks as preparing and cooking a meal, washing dishes, setting a table and serving a meal. An African American student is in photograph working at one of the sinks, [c. 1 959J
Keyword: Pediatrics
B05655 E. Perry Crump - portrait [c.l955] (also in Meharry Medical School data
base)
Keyword: Pharmacy
AO 14736 Elliot Richardson, Secretary of DHEW, visits NIH on March 16. 1971. Photo includes African Americans
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AO 14737 Elliot Richardson, Secretary of DHEW, visits NIH on March 16. 1971. Photo includes African Americans
A014738 Elliot Richardson meets with Pharmacy Department's Central Sterile Supply workers during his visit. Photo includes African Americans.
AO 14741 Executive Officer Earl Laurence and CC Pharmacy Department Chief Joseph (?) introduce Central Sterile Supply Chief to Elliot Richardson during his visit to NIH in 1971 . Photo includes African Americans.
AO 14743 CC Pharmacy Department's Central Sterile Supply staff explain wrapping procedures to Elliot Richardson during his visit. Photo includes African Americans.
Keyword: Physical Examination
A030403 PHS physician treats the foot of an elderly woman in a hospital room Keyword: Surgery
B03649 Dorothy L. Brown [c.l959] (also in Meharry Medical School) Keyword: Surgeon General
AO 1482 Chicago Medical Depot. US Army Surgeon General's Office. African Americans in principal packing line.
A01831 1 Surgeon General Parran, Lcroy Burncy and two nur.scs. one African
American and one while, next to a mobile syphilis trailer in Brunswick, GA.
United States Public Health Service (additional images not previously noted)
AO 16050 Various photographs of the USPHS workers during the New Orleans campaign (c. 1914-1920]
AO 16051 Group portrait of US Public Health Service workers posing in front of sanitary district no. 7 headquarters during the New Orleans plague campaign. African American(s) in group (c. 191 4- 1 920]
AO 16052 Group portrait of US Public Health Service sanitary group probably rat- proofers, during the New Orleans plague campaign; some workers are posed with dogs and containers of poison used in rat-proofing; African American(s) in group [c. 1914-1920]
AO 1 5947 African American man working as part of the New Orleans plague campaign holding a rat that has been dipped in poison [c. 1914-1920]
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AO 16060 View of a commercial building on Canal Street undergoing rat-proofing during the New Orleans plague, work crew in front of the building cleans up the debris [c. 1914-1 920]
AO 18069 USPHS Mission to Liberia, May 1947: Staff and their families are shown in a group; out-of-doors with houses and palm trees in the background
** There are a lot of photographs of Blacks taken by WHO that capture them providing medical care in settings around the world. These images were not included since the focus of this inventory is African Americans working in the US or abroad and it is assumed that WHO photographs capture indigenous people unless otherwise stated. Additional holdings of Blacks are in the image collection of the Pan-American Health Organization.
Additional Holdings of Photographs in Manuscript Collections of HMD - NLM
Manuscript Collection of Faye Ahdellah, RN, Box 13 (MS C 424)
1971 Mary Lee Mills, RN, a distinguished African American USPHS nurse
standing with group of four USPHS nurses including Faye Abdellah
[c.1971]
May 1975 Nurses Memorial Service in Arlington Cemetery - photo includes an African American USPHS nurse
May 1977 Staten Island Hospital (Nurse Johnson) - Group of USPHS officers including an African American nurse
Oct. 1981 Staten Island Hospital's lOO'^ Anniversary - Staff picture that includes African American USPHS nurses
1 987 Flag Meeting - meeting of USPHS Commissioned Officers with African
American USPHS nurses in photo
There are other group photos of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Officers that include African Americans in Faye Abdellah's papers. The individuals in the photograph are not identified and the photographs are not dated.
Manuscript ( \)l lection ofLeonidas Berry, MD, Box 1 (MS C 423)
1907 Photograph of Berry as boy with his parents and brother, Richard
1932 Illinois National Guard 8'^ Infantry, Regimental Medical Staff, Camp
Grant, IL, LH Berry in photo, far right
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1 939 Photograph of Dr. Berry demonstrating use of semi-flexible Gastroscope
at Harlem Hospital during a National Medical Association convention. The photograph includes an African American resident and nurses.
I960 Pan American Congress of Gastroenterology in Santiago Chile, 1960.
These photographs show Dr. Berry at an exhibit booth and talking with people at the meeting
1970s There are several photographs of Dr. Berry demonstrating the use of the
fiberoptic gastroscope with residents and practicing physicians in courses conducted at Cook County Hospital.
Manuscript Collection of the National College of Nurse Midwives (MS C 330a)
The manuscript collection of the American College of Nurse Midwives was expanded with material from 1945 and from 1976-1994. The few photographs in this additional collection have not been entered into the on-line catalogue of visual images, but do include photographic images taken between 1977-86. In addition there are videocassettes of interviews with African American nurse-midwives.
Images of African American in Medicine located in historical books (HMD) and in IHM Prints and Photographs Collection of HMD
58-337 Margaret Mahoney, RN, I'irst African American (iraduatc Nurse in the
United States, portrait in: Cioodnow's Nursinu History, 9'^ l{dit.
58-338 Class of African American Nurses. Philadelphia Mercy Hospital, lc.l9]5|
WX 2 Philadelphia. Mercy-Douglas Hospital. Two images from Philadelphia
AP4 Inquirer Magazine showing old and new buildings |c. August 1 , 1 954]
P4M5 This article also includes photographs of Dr. Mossell and Dr. Hinson, both
graduates of the University of Pennsylvania and founders of Mercy Hospital and Douglas Hospital. These two hospitals merged to form Mercy-Douglas Hospital.
The Catalotzue of the Officers and Students of Howard University, March 1898-1 899 (W 19H852h 1900)
oppos 68 Half-tone image of A.M. Curtis, MD, African American Surgeon-in-Chief of Freedmen's Hospital [c.l898]
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Daniel Smith Lamb. Howard University Medical Department: A HistoricaK BiouraphicaK and Statistical Souvenir (Washington, DC: R. Beresford, 1900), 301pp. W 19qH 852h 1900
Page
10 Freedmen's Hospital. 1865-1869
13 Howard University, Medical Department, and the Hospital; Main
Building, West view. 1 869- 1 900
15 Howard University, College and Hospital Building. East View by South,
1869-1900
17 Faculty of Howard University, Medical Department, 1869-1870. African American faculty in Anatomy, A.T. Augusta
18 Medical Department. Old Lecture Room, 1869-1895 44 Dental Infirmary
50 Junior Chemical Laboratory
53 Nurses' Home, Northeast View
55 "Hood" Amphitheater, in the Annex
59 Ambulance (horse-drawn)
60 Lecture Room No. 1 ; one of three similar rooms
62 Bacteriological laboratory
63 Pharmacal and pharmaceutical laboratory
64 North histological and pathological laboratory 66 South histological laboratory
76 Five African American hospital interns, 1895-1896
80 Group of university buildings
African American General Officers of Howard University include: 92 William Albert Sinclair
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Images of African American Medical Faculty of Howard University include:
1 1 0 Alexander Thomas Augusta, MD, Anatomy, 1 869- 1 877
1 22 Samuel Roger Watts, MD, Anatomy, 1 875, Pharmacology, 1 877-79,
Medical Jurisprudence, 1895-1900, Clinical Medicine, 1899-1900
127 Furmann Jeremiah Shadd. MD, Clinical Medicine. Gynecology,
Physiology, Hygiene, Medical Jurisprudence, Materia Medica and Therapeutics, 1885-1900
130 William s. Lofton, DDS, Prosthetic Dentistry, 1891-1893
1 30 Hamilton Sutton Smith, DDS, Operative and Prosthetic Dentistry,
132 Daniel H. Williams, MD, Surgeon, 1894-98
1 34 William Whipper Pumell, PharmD, MD. Ophthalmology and Otology,
1895- 1898
136 Andrew Jackson Gwathney DDS, Dentistry, Crown and Bridge Work,
1896- 1900
136 John Richard Francis, MD, Obstetrics, 1896-1899 (*see bio)
138 Tomlin Augustus Campbell. DDS. Operative Dentistry, 1897-1900
139 William A Warfield, MD, Obstetrics, Anatomy and Bacteriology, 1 896- 1900
Images of African American Graduates of Howard University, Medical Department Include the following (with biographical statements):
146 Philip Lewis Barber, MD. graduated 1883
1 50 Isiah Alpheus Boyd, MD, graduated 1 89 1
L51 Greenbury Howard Brown. PharmD. graduated 1896
153 George Williamson Cabaniss, MD, graduated 1890
1 54 Abram L. Cabell, MD. graduated 1 895
1 58 Edward Duval Colley, MD. graduated 1 897
162 Simeon Murdock Davie. MD graduated 1898
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1 69 John Thomas Gilbert, MD, graduated 1 898
1 72 Eustace Edward Green, MD, graduated 1 886
171 Donarell R. Green, MD, graduated 1893
1 72 Richard Edgar Grier, MD, graduated 1 894
1 73 John Austin Gwynn, MD, graduated 1 889
1 75 Harrison Llewellyn Harris, MD, graduated 1 882
1 76 Leroy Henry Harris, PharmD, graduated 1 894
1 76 William Edward Harris, MD, graduated 1 890
177 Henry Wilson Haskins, MD, graduated 1891 181 Allen J.M. Howard, MD, graduated 1 883
1 8 1 Enoch Whittier Hubert. MD, graduated 1 895
1 82 Julia Pearl Hughes, PharmD, graduated 1 897 1 84 Benjamin James, MD, graduated 1 876
1 97 Charles Herbert Marshall, MD, graduated 1 890
1 99 Thomas Samuel Pierson Miller, MD, graduated 1 884, faculty of Anatomy, Diseases of Children, 1887-91
201 Shedrech LeRoy Morris, MD graduated 1897
202 George Washington Murray, PharmD, graduated 1 894 207 William Henry Pipes, PharmD, graduated 1900
207 David Wilbert Postles, MD, graduated 1 895
208 John W. Prather, MD, graduated 1 892
212 Gemel B.H. Rutherford, MD, graduated 1880
2 1 3 William Kenton Scott, MD, graduated 1 895 2 1 5 James Francis Shober, MD, graduated 1 878
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218 John Thomas Stanford, MD, graduated 1 895
221 William Henry Taylor, MD, graduated 1 899
221 John Oliver Thomas, PharmD, graduated 1895
224 M. Alonzo Van Home, DDS, graduated 1 896
226 Alice Mariah Waring, DDS, graduated 1 900
226 William Chapman Warmsley, MD, graduated 1 898
228 Marcus Fitzherbert Wheatland. MD. graduated 1 895
229 Green D. Williams, MD, graduated 1 883
230 Charles Henri Woode, MD, graduated 1 892
Sketch of Provident Hospital, Baltimore, MD, p. 186 Photograph of Douglass Hospital, Kansas City. Kansas, p. 271
Howard University Catalouue, 1912-1913 (W 19.5 AD6 118) fold-out with photographs
of Howard University, including images of medical school
Captions:
The Medical Building - African American students in laboratory (chemistry) Laboratory - School of Medicine - Bacteriology
Laboratory - School of Medicine - Physiology (African American students in laboratory)
Clinic - Amphitheater; Frcedmen's Hospital (African American students and faculty looking on)
Class in Physics - African American students
Out of the laboratory - Chemistry (African American students standing at lab desks with instructors)
Howard University Bulletin, 1940; vol. 19, No. 10, College of Medicine, 1939-1940 image of the Medical College Building, oppos. p. 15 (W 19.5 AD6 H8) Image of Lreedmen's Hospital, pp. 24-25
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On-line Images of African Americans in Medicine by Subject Black Hospitals and Dispensaries
A02406 US Army Hospital, Beaufort, SC - black soldiers hospital [c. 1 864] A02407 US Army Hospital, Beaufort, SC - black soldiers hospital [c. 1 864] A05363 US Army, Sternberg General Hospital, Camp Thomas, Chichamauga, GA
African American Soldiers at Army Hospital [1898] A05280 US Army, Hospital. Fort Bennin, GA. African American nurse taking
weight of a boy in a classroom with other black children AO 10978 Gorgas Hospital, Ancon, Canal Zone. Patient ward with African American
Patients [c.l919]
AOl 1 524 US American National Red Cross Hospital No. 5, Paris, France.
White and African American soldiers, nurses and patients A0291 1 US Army Hospital No. 12, Bonvillers, France. Wounded men being
removed from ambulances - African American men in photo AOS 169 US Army Stark General Hospital, Charleston. SC. Soldiers on stretchers
await ambulances to take them to the wards - African American as
soldiers
AO 102 10 Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, Washington, DC. Outdoor dispensary patients with African American and white patients
AO 102 1 1 Central Dispen.sary and l:mergency Hospital, Washington, DC. African American man getting x-ray'd
Keyword: Freemen's Hospital AO 1 8025 Front of hospital
African American Physicians and Scientists
Keyword: Blacks
A032519 *'Dr. Stallings learned to serve the underserved", poster for the National 1 Icalth Service Corp
Keyword: Leonidas Berry, MD B02819 Portrait
AO 1 4661 National Advisory Council on Regional Medical Programs B02820 Dr. Berry with Endoscope
Keyword: Paul Comely, MD B05371 Portrait
Keyword: W. Montague Cobb, MD
B04805 Portrait
B04806 Anatomy Lab
B04807 Distinguished Service Award
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Keyword: Charles Drew, MD B030088 Portrait A016534 NIH Exhibit
Keyword: Meharry Medical School
B03415 David Vemard Bradley [c.l955]
B03649 Dorothy L. Brown - An African American surgeon standing with small
child in foreground [c.l959] B03650 Dorothy L. Brown - An African American surgeon holding fountain pen
in white coat [c.l959] (same photo as B03649 only close up of Dr. Brown) B04418 Ralph J. Cazort [c.l955]
B05655 E. Perry Crump, MD - An African American pediatrician [c.l955]
B05660 John R. Cuff, MD [c. 1 940]
B05659 John R. Cuff, MD
BO 15232 Walter Fitz Bemell James, MD [c.l956]
Keyword: Blood
AO 14721 Biologist John Owens of the National Cancer Institute Biology Branch
separates antibodies from other proteins in the blood serum of rabbits that have been immunized with antigen found in tumor cells. He is operating a chromatograph.
Keyword: Nurse
AO 14800 African American physician examining an infant while an African American assistant and infant's mother look on
Dental Clinics and African American Dentists
Keyword: Blacks
A029605 An African American female dentist working on a young boy's teeth A029606 An African American female dentist examining several children's teeth A029601 Herman G. Morgan Health Center. Dental Clinic, Indianapolis, IN.
Interior view of a dental office with a patient sitting in a dental chair and an African American dentist standing next to him [c.l9471
Keyword: Meharry Medical School
A029580 An African American girl is sitting in a dental chair with an African American dental assistant standing next to her
Keyword: Dentistry
AO 1 8606 African American man in white uniform positioning x-ray tube for dental x-rays
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African American Nurses
Keyword: Blacks
AOl 1524 US American National Red Cross Hospital No. 5, Paris, France
White and African American Soldiers, African American Nurses. Caption: Lt. Europe's Colored Band
AO 167 10 Child being weighed at an improvised baby station and child health clinic set-up inside a church
AOl 6075 Interior of a church. Several men and women sit with many African
American women wearing nursing uniforms. A bed and a table are in the foreground. An African America instructor is sitting at the bedside and another African American nurse is sitting at a table on the left.
B085 1 5 Adah B. Thoms [c. 1 927]
B09892 Mary Lee Mills, RN, an African American nurse who served in the US
Public Health Service and US army
Keyword: Blood
AO 14456 An African American laboratory technician extracts plasma from whole blood
B09991 Interview view of the Mobile Clinic at the Reformed Episcopal Church,
Berkeley Co. Public Health Department showing Miss Broughton. RN, an African American nurse midwife, taking the blood pressure of an AlVican American woman holding her infant
Keyword: Children's Bureau
AOl 61 40 African American nurses measuring girls' height and weight A029657 African American school nurse weighing child [c.l950] A030252 African American mother feeding baby in Well-Baby Clinic, Herman G. Morgan Health Center, Indianapolis, IN, [c.l947]
Keyword: Child Care
AOl 8004 Miss Beverly Fillips, USOM Public Health, attempts to comfort young
child after an operation on his right arm. The child is held by his mother. A029845 Interior view of a children's health clinic. An African American child is
having this throat examined by an African American public health nurse;
the other AlVican American children are sitting against a wall waiting their
turn.
Keyword: Freedmen's Hospital
AO 102 13 Student nurse
AO 1 8026 Nurses on front steps of hospital
Keyword: Nurse
AOl 81 3 Indian Hospital, Sante Fe, New Mexico. African American nurse in
nursery
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A09684 US Air Force Hospital. Barksdale AFB. Shreveport. LA. African
American nurse in a nursery AOl 1 106 Middlesex Hospital, London, Eng. Black nurse giving baby a stomach
washout
AOl 1755 US American National Red Cross Evacuation Hospital No. 1 14. Fleury-
sur-Aisne, France. Nurses attending patients in Ward M; African
American nurses or nurse assistant in photograph. A022597 Military hospital. Nurse playing records for sick soldiers. Photo includes
an African American nurse AOl 5 1 80 African American nurse with baby at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet
Center's AAF Regional Hospital A030403 PHS physician treats the foot of an elderly woman in a hospital room.
African American nurse assists. A029834 An African American nurse getting the medical history of an African
American patient holding baby with a child standing close A029850 Care of African American newborns in a nursery by two African
American nurses. One African American nurse is weighing a newborn. AOl 5905 African American Army Nurses enjoy bike ride while awaiting
assignment
AO 15891 Army nurses in operating room at 40'*^ General Hospital. Photo includes African American nurse assisting with the operation
Keyword: Nursing Schools
AO 16063 School of Practical Nursing at Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York City.
Interior view: Several women wearing uniforms work at various stations performing such tasks as preparing and cooking a meal, washing dishes, setting a table and serving a meal. An African American student is in photograph working at one of the sinks. (c.l959|
Keyword: BO 10768 AO 16709 A016710
A014810 A01481 1
Public 1 lealth Nursing Ethel May .lones, RN
Savannah Health Center with African American nurse standing by car Baby being weighed by African American nurses at an improvised baby station and child health clinic set up in a church with African American mothers and babies in background
Well-Baby Clinic with African American mothers and nurse
Nurses Training Program with class of white and African American nurses
Keyword: Surgeon General
AOl 83 1 1 Surgeon General Parran, Leroy Bumey and two nurses, one African
American and one white, next to a mobile syphilis trailer in Brunswick, GA.
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African American Nurse Midwives
Keyword: Black Nurses
AO 16075 Interior of a church. Several men and women sit with many African
American women wearing nursing uniforms. A bed and a table are in the foreground. An African America instructor is sitting at the bedside and another African American nurse is sitting at a table on the left.
Keyword: Public Health Nursing
B09985 Eugenia Broughton, African American nurse midwife
B09990 Eugenia Broughton, patients and nurse midwives standing outside of the
Mobile Clinic of the Reformed Episcopal Church, Berkeley Co. Public
Health Department
B09991 Interview view of the Mobile Clinic at the Reformed Episcopal Church,
Berkely Co. Public Health Department showing Miss Broughton taking the blood pressure of a woman holding her infant.
B09992 Eugenia Broughton at a Mobile Clinic
B09993 Eugenia Broughton inside Mobile Clinic
Keyword: Midwives
B09891 l^ugenia I'orde, an African American nurse midwife
B09901 Laura Blackburn, RN, standing outside by car while African American
nurses gather closer to building B09895 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
View of two African American group leaders selected and trained by Miss
lilackburn
B09896 Midwife Institute. Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
African American head group leader pinning a midwife badge on Mr,
Russ Richardson, making him an honorary midwife B09897 Midwife Institute. Penn Community Center, I rogmore, South Carolina.
Two African American teachers at the Midwife Institute having a
conference at lunch
B09898 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, I rogmore, South Carolina.
An African American nurse midwife instructs two African American students in the proper procedures for caring for hospitalized patients
B09899 Midwife Institute. Penn Community Center. Frogmore, South Carolina.
An African American nurse midwife instructs three African American students in the proper procedures for caring for patient in bed
B09900 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore. South Carolina. Instruction in the proper procedures for caring for a patient
B09902 Laura Blackburn stands in the street near a car outside a building.
African American nurses are behind the cars and closer to the building
B09903 Laura Blackburn, nurse midwife
AO 14830 Midwife Institute. Penn Community Onter. Frogmore. South Carolina.
View of the entrance from the road, building seen slightly through the trees
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A014831 Midwife Institute, Perm Community Center, Frogmore. South Carolina.
Exterior view showing a group of students sitting on the steps waiting for the lunch bell to ring
AO 14832 Midwife Institute, Perm Community Center, Frogmore. South Carolina.
This picture shows a public health nurse, nutritionists, nurse midwives, head group leaders of the institute and mental health consultants viewing lesson plans, schedule of activities, the midwife certificate registration, birth certification.
A014833 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
Group of four African American nurse-midwife students talking on
grounds of the Midwife Institute AO 14834 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore. South Carolina.
Two African American midwife students standing near the bell on the
grounds of the Midwife Institute AO 14835 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.
Showing Sadie Nickpeay, an African American nurse midwife, counseling
African American parents in their home from a book on pre-natal care AO 14836 Midwife In.stitute, Penn Community Center. Frogmore. South Carolina.
Showing the midwife students beginning the day with a fomial march into
the general session
A014837 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center. Frogmore, South Carolina.
Midwife students enjoy the meal in the dining hail, not an empty table to be found
AO 14838 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center. Frogmore, South Carolina.
Showing the midwife students enjoying their meal in the dining room A014839 Midwife Institute. Penn C ommunity Center. I rogmore, South Carolina.
This is a typical scene showing eight African American students who
studied each morning with a teacher and in the afternoon were assigned to
observe or participate in a classroom AO 14840 Midwife Institute, Penn Community Center. I rogmore, South Carolina.
This is a typical scene showing eight African American students who
studied each morning with a teacher and in the afternoon were assigned to
observe or participate in a classroom B09912 Maude Collen. an African American nurse midwife, offers instruction to
new African American mother in a nursery B09913 Maude Collen, an African American nurse midwife, visits a home to
inspect an African American child's immunization scars B09914 Maude Collen. an African American nurse midwite. immunizing an
African American infant being held by his mother with a student looking
on
B09915 Maude Collen. an African American nurse midwife, receives a plaque in
August 1973
B09916 Maude Collen, an African American nurse midwife, conducting a class
with African Americans at the State Board of Health's Midwife Institute at Frogmore (c. 1 950]. Photo shows a group of students and an African American pregnant woman on a stretcher
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B0991 7 At the Midwife Institute, African American midwives learn about the
importance of a good diet for their patients B09919 Ethel Jones Kirkland, RN. an African American nurse midwife
B09920 Ethel Jones Kirkland, RN, teaching an African American public health
nurse and her small class of lay midwives in a typical County Health
Department class setting B09921 Ethel Kirkland in a class session at the Tallahassee Midwife Institute
August, 1933
B09959 An elderly African American woman holding an infant. Caption: The
yearly meeting with African American nurses of the State Board of Health B09963 Girtha R. Wilkerson, an African American midwife
B09966 Deola L. Cyrus, an African American midwife, and others. View of eight African American nurse midwives at the midwife meeting, Clinton, LA [c.1955]
B09967 I wo African American nurse midwives utilize the technique of role-
playing through the use of puppets
AO 14843 Twelve African American midwives receive instruction in midwifery
B09968 A granny midwife, view of an African American woman sitting on the
wooden steps to her home
B09969 View of eleven African American midwives
B09970 Deolo Lange Cyrus, an African American nurse midwife, instructs African
American student nurse midwives in cleanliness B09971 Deolo Lange Cyrus, an African American nurse midwife, observes as
African American student nurse midwives practice birthing techniques B09974 African American mothers with their children gather at midwife's home
for immunizations of children B09986 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, in a school
clinic in Cainhoy, SC [c.l949] B09987 Seven African American women receive inslruciions in bathing an infant
by Eugenia Broughton B09988 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, standing on the
porch of a school clinic with an African American family B09989 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, and the
Berkeley County Midwives B09990-93 see above, Eugenia Broughton
B09994 View of Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, sitting
at a desk in front of a blackboard 309995 View of Eugenia Broughton. an African American nurse midwife, and two
other African American women in a classroom in front of the blackboard B09996 View of African American women meeting to discuss the Midwives
institute
B09997 View of African American midwives gathering outside - playful B09998 Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, conducts
examination of pregnant African American woman BO 1 000 (iroup photograph of African American teachers and observers of the
Midwives Institute, Penn Community Center [c.l953]
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BO 10001 African American nurse midwives receive instruction outside under trees BO 10002 Exterior view of Clinic showing Miss Broughton. an African American
nurse midwife, and a patient B09981 Clinic in church in Cainhoy, SC, with Eugenia Broughton, an African
American nurse midwife, and several African American mothers with
their babies
B09982 Interior view of health center (in a trailor) showing an African American
infant being examined B09983 An African American man being examined by a white doctor at an
outdoor clinic at the Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church. Cainhoy, SC.
An African American nurse assists B09977 African American nurse midwife, Mamie Hale, demonstrates timing labor
pains for correct delivery using an obstetrical dummy B010024 J. R.E.Lee, MD, an African American physician, at the Midwives Institute
at Florida A&M College, Tallahassee. FL [c.l933] BO 1 0025 L.H.B.Foote, an African American man at the Midwives Institute at
Florida A&M College. Tallahassee, FL [c.l933] BO 10026 An African American woman who serves as Dean of Women at Midwives
Institute at Florida A&M College. Tallahassee. FL [c. 1933 J BO 1 0027 Group of African American midwives on the steps of the Midwives
Institute at f lorida A&M College. Tallahassee. FL [c.l933] BO 1 0028 African American nurse-midwife student at Midwives Institute at I'lorida
A&M College, rallaha.ssee, FL [c.l933J BO 1 0029 African American .students in front of building at Midwives Institute at
Florida A&M College. Tallahassee. FL [c.l9331 B010030 Florida A&M College Institute for Midwives. I'allahassee. I-L. A group
of African American student nurse-midwives BO 1003 1 Florida A&M College Institute for Midwives, l allahassee. FL. African
American female nurse midwife BO 10032 Florida A&M College Institute tor Midwives. l allahassee, I L. African
American male nurse midwife [^010033 I'lorida A&M College Institute for Midwives. Tallahassee, FL. African
American male nurse midwife B010039 African American granny midwives gathered for group photo in western
Florida
BO 10040 African American granny midwives gathered for meetings B010041 African American granny midwife at a West Florida Granny Midwives meeting
BO 10042 African American granny midwife at a West Florida Granny Midwives meeting
B0I0043 African American granny midwives at a West Florida Granny Midwives meeting
B09975 An African American midwife instructs an African American male parent
how to fill out a birth certificate
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African American Laborator\ and X-ray Technicians
Keyword: Blacks
AO 1 791 0 African American man in white coat iioiding two rats as part of obesity
studies, NIH, [c.l955] AO] 7923 African American woman in white coat working in Laboratory of
Molecular Biology at NIH, [c.l960's]
Keyword: Dentistry
AO 1 8606 African American man in white uniform positioning x-ray tube for dental
x-rays
Keyword: Blood
AO] 1 134 Middlesex Hospital, London, Eng. Examination of blood by Black laboratory technician or physician
Keyword: Public Health
AO 14456 An African American laboratory technician extracts plasma from whole blood
African Americans at the National Institutes of Health
Keyword: Blacks
A027487 Patricia Roberts Harris. Secretary of I)Hi;W. arriving at Lister Hill Center,
August 1980 for the inauguration of Vincent DcVila as Director of NCI. A017910 African American man in white coat holding two rats, one 550 gm and one
1445 gm, as part of obesity studies, NIH; National Institute of Arthritis
and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases [c.l955] A017923 African Aiiierican female laboratory technician working in Laboratory of
Molecular Biology at NIH; National Institute with Neurological Disorders
and Stroke [c.l96b's]
AO 18606 African American man in white uniform positioning x-ray tube for dental x-rays; NIH - National Institute of Dental Research
Keyword: Blood
AO 1 4721 [biologist John Owens of the National Cancer Institute Biology Branch
separates antibodies from other proteins in the blood serum of rabbits that have been immunized with antigen found in tumor cells. He is operating a chromatograph.
Keyword: Cancer
AO 1 7823 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. A group photograph of the NCI staff that
includes a number of African Americans AO 1 7824 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. Six people including one African American
woman in a while coat
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A020029 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. Two African American men moving supplies: one is in a lab coat
A020027 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. Two men looking at mice, one is African
American, both in lab coats A020026 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. Two men looking at mice, one is African
American, both in lab coats A020025 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. Two men looking at mice, one is African
American, both in lab coats A020023 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. Three men with mice cages, two are African
American, all appear to be lab personnel A020022 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. African American lab technician A020021 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. African American lab technician A020020 NIH-NCI Cancer Research. African American lab technician
Keyword: Pharmacy
AO 14736 Elliot Richardson, Secretary of DHEW, visits NIH on March 16, 1971.
Photo includes African Americans A014737 EIliotRichardson, Secretary ofDHEW. visits NIH on March 16. 1971.
Photo includes African Americans A014738 Elliot Richardson meets with Pharmacy Department's Central Sterile
Supply workers during his visit. Photo includes African Americans. AO 14741 Executive Officer I-^arl Laurence and CC Pharmacy Department Chief
Joseph (?) introduce Central Sterile Supply Chief to E.lliot Richardson
during his visit to NIH in 1971. Photo includes African Americans. AO 14743 CC Pharmacy Department's Central Sterile Supply staff explain wrapping
procedures to Elliot Richardson during his visit. Photo includes African
Americans.
African Americans as Health Professionals in Public Health Epidemics
AO 16041 fwo laboratory workers, probably US Public Health Service members, examining material under a microscope during the New Orleans plague campaign: worker in foreground possibly African American [c. 1914-1 920]
Keyword: Surgeon General
AO 1482 Chicago Medical Depot. US Army Surgeon GeneraPs Office. African
Americans in principal packing line. AO 1 83 1 1 Surgeon General Parran, Leroy Bumey and two nurses, one African
American and one white, next to a mobile syphilis trailer in Brunswick,
GA.
Keyword: United States Public Health Service (additional images not previously noted) AO 16050 Various photographs of the UPHS workers during the New Orleans campaign |c. 1 914-1 920]
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AO 1 605 1 Group portrait of US Public Health Service workers posing in front of sanitary district no. 7 headquarters during the New Orleans plague campaign, African American(s) in group [c. 191 4- 1 920]
AO 16052 Group portrait of US Public Health Service sanitary group probably rat- proofers, during the New Orleans plague campaign; some workers are posed with dogs and containers of poison used in rat-proofmg; African American(s) in group [c. 191 4-1 920]
AO 16060 View of a commercial building on Canal Street undergoing rat-proofing during the New Orleans plague, work crew in front of the building cleans up the debris [c. 1914-1 920]
AO! 8069 USPHS Mission to Liberia. May 1 947: Staff and their families are shown in a group; out-of-doors with houses and palm trees in the background
Keyword: Malaria
A030027 TVA malaria control - rural farm with an African American family A030029 TVA malaria control - rural farm with an African American family
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Video Oral Histories and Films of African Americans in Medicine
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Video Oral Histories and Films of African Americans in Medicine in HMD - NLM General Collection
Videos of African Americans in Medicine
WZ 100 VC Charles Drew: Determined to Succeed
no. 90 1 995 Video and Study Guide
WZ 1 00 VC One Doctor; Daniel Hale Williams - First Person Ever to
No. 184 1997 Successfully Operate on the Human Heart, Dr. Williams was a
founder of Provident Hospital in Chicago and a founding member
of the American College of Surgeons
WZ 100 VC Ben Carson, MD: Famous physician - Dr. Carson is a
neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
No. 338 2000
WZ 1 12.5.R2 SL A History of African American Radiology No. 1 1994
WZ 1 1 2.5.S8 VC A Century of Black Surgeons: the USA Experience. HMD also
No. I 1 987 has the two volume history edited by Claude Organ ct al.
W 76 VC Separate But l-^qual Has No Place in Health Care Either
No. 2 1990
WZ150 Medical Leaders
VC no. I 1999 Profiles Dr. David Satcher, US Surgeon General and Assistant
Secretary for Health and Human Services; and Dr. Louis Sullivan, former Secretary for Health and Human Services and President of Morehouse School of Medicine
LRC (in process) Partners of the heart, c 2003 (available 9/08/03)
HMD Collection
Alpha Omega Alpha Leaders in American Medicine
This series of video-taped oral histories was made possible by a contribution by the late Drs. Beatrice C and David E Seegal. Of the 121 taped interviews, three were conducted with African American physicians.
W. Montague Cobb, MD:
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Howard University School of Medicine; interviewed by LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., MD. Dr. Cobb discusses his primary and
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secondary education in Washington, DC and college education at Amherst College. He then moves on to his years as a graduate student as Western Reserve in Cleveland before returning to Howard as faculty in the school of medicine and his his anthropological studies that show there are no differences between African Americans and whites. Dr. Cobb discusses several of his landmark publications in the 1940s and his political activism in support of national medical care. He describes some of his innovative ideas in teaching anatomy using graphics. Dr. Cobb outlines his work on hospital racial integration both in Washington, DC, and nationally before closing the interview with Dr. Leffall.
LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., MD:
Professor of Surgery and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Howard University School of Medicine; interviewed by Clive O. Callender. MD - Dr. Leffall spends considerable time talking about his early years at home and the values instilled in him by his parents, their backgrounds as teachers and school principals, and his effort to excel academically at Florida A & M. He moves on to his education at Howard University School of Medicine, his internship at Homer G. Phillips and then his residency back at Howard. Dr. Callender effectively draws Dr. Leffall into talking about his role as a father, husband and role model for students as well as the most meaningful accomplishments of his personal life and professional career.
Matthew Walker, MD:
Professor of Surgery, Provost for External Affairs, Meharry Medical College, interviewed by L.J. Bernard, MD: Drs. Walker and Bernard trace Dr. Walker's early life an education in New Orleans and his life as a medical student at Meharry. Dr. Walker discusses the teachers who most influenced his life, especially Drs. Hale and McMillan and his achievement as the first surgery resident at Meharry's Hubbard Hospital. He describes his efforts to obtain surgical training in a segregated profession and his later efforts to establish a surgical residency program at Meharry in order to expand opportunities in this field for younger African Americans. Dr. Walker addresses larger issues in health care such as medical education, training in death and dying, outreach to Mount Bayou and rural populations, and the needs of the uninsured and government support of health care.
Black History Month
Lric Bailey: Tracing the roots of black folk medicine. Dr. Bailey, using photographs and slides as well as oral history and anthropological evidence, outlines the development of black folk medicine among the slave population of the United States.
WZ 300 David McBride: I he African American medical experience:
VC no. 15 1999 perspectives and prospects; Part 2 - Voting Rights Act
WZ 309
VC no. 3 2002
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F 128.9 N3 Michael Blakley: New York's African Burial Ground and the
VC no. 1 2001 struggle for human rights. This film also discusses mortuary
practices.
Disease Specific
WF 200 MP 16 National Tuberculosis Association. Tuskegee Institute: Let my No. 2 1938 people live. This film dramatizes the dangers of neglecting the
treatment of tuberculosis through the story of a black family where the superstitious mother, who depends on cures rather than the doctor, succumbs to the disease. When her two children also develop the disease they are saved by modem medical care. Musical background to the story consists of Negro spirituals sung by the Tuskegee choir.