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Finding Aid for the Hollister Collection

OHA 193

Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine,
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Date of Records:  1908-1965

2 Cubic Feet, 3 Boxes


Description

Papers of Clark J. Hollister, DDS, an early dental hygiene advocate who established the dental division of the Pennsylvania Department of Health in 1920 and served as its director until 1933. Includes photographs, speeches, correspondence, articles, certificates, a yearbook, and newspaper clippings documenting mobile dental hygiene units, dentistry in World War I, and state public health efforts.

Folder List

Box 1

  • Correspondence, 1930s-1960s
  • Speeches, 1922-1932
  • Manuscripts, 1947, nd
  • WWI article by Hollister, with photos
  • Memorials, 1965
  • Certificates, 1930s-1960s
  • Pamphlets and programs, 1911-1940s
  • Dental Practice Act, 1933
  • Fones's report on dental hygiene, 1919, 1922
  • Journals and journal articles, 1920s-1940s

Box 2

  • Newspaper clippings, 1920s-1940s
  • White House Conference on Child Health...Dental Service, nd
  • Photographs of Hollister and his office, 1908-1940s
  • School parade photographs, Chambersburg, PA, 1031-1932
  • Public health photographs, 1920s-1940s

Box 3

  • Eight oversize, mounted photographs, ca. 1917-1918
  • Speeches and songs, 1920s
  • Three certificates
  • Three pages from a scrapbook with clippings and programs