OHA 2

• Curatorial Records: Annual Reports, 1865-1906
• .5 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Annual reports submitted to the Surgeon General. Missing 1880, 1881, and 1884.

OHA 3

• Curatorial Records: Army Fort/Post Hospital Reconstruction Program Correspondence, 1877-1888
• .5 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Correspondence to the Surgeon General on the plans, specifications, and construction estimates of post hospitals of various camps and forts (including Camp Del Rio, Texas; Ft. Reno, Indian Territory; Washington Barracks, Washington, DC; Ft. Columbus, New York). Apparently forwarded to curator John Billings for comment after his work on the "Report on the Hygiene of the U.S. Army" (1875).

OHA 4

• Curatorial Records: Autopsy Logbooks, 1866-1919
• 1 cubic foot, 2 boxes.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Records of autopsies done by Museum staff (primarily Dr. Daniel Smith Lamb) for local doctors and institutions (primarily Freedmen's Hospital). Specimens from these autopsies were often added to the Museum collections.

OHA 5

• Curatorial Records: Awards, 1912
• 1 oversize folder.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Three award certificates: from the American Medical Association to the Army Medical Museum for an exhibit; from the 15th International Congress on Hygiene and Demography to the Army Medical Department for an exhibit on communicable diseases; and one to the Army Medical Department, written in an Asian language.

OHA 6

• Curatorial Records: Circulars and Reports, 1863-1864
• .25 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Handwritten copies of circulars and reports concerning the Museum to and from the Surgeon General's Office during the Civil War. Most were written by curator John Brinton.

OHA 7

• Curatorial Records: Classification Systems, 1885-1944
• .5 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Several loose and bound classification manuals with anatomical and pathological terms used by the Museum at various times.

OHA 8

• Curatorial Records: Collection Logbooks, 1860sca. 1910
• 10 cubic foot, 28 boxes.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Miscellaneous logbooks of collections kept by the Museum between its opening and World War I. Records are entered according to obsolete numbering systems including MS, SS, MM, AS, and PS numbers. Includes logs of objects received; indexes of donors, patients, specimens, and artifacts; registers of photographs and illustrations; inventories; and lists of case and shelf locations.

OHA 9

• Curatorial Records: Construction of the Army Medical Museum Building (Old Red Brick), 1880s
• 1 cubic foot, 2 boxes.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• The Army Medical Museum building (known as the "Old Red Brick") was built in 1888 and occupied by the Museum until 1968, when it was demolished to make room for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The collection contains architectural drawings, legal documents, and correspondence.

OHA 10

• Curatorial Records: Deed to Ford's Theater, 1866-1878
• .25 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Deed to the Ford's Theater building and related documents. The Museum occupied Ford's Theater between 1866 and 1884.

OHA 11

• Curatorial Records: Endorsement Books, 1864-1882
• 1 cubic foot, 2 boxes.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Two endorsement books describing administrative actions under curators George A. Otis, D.L. Huntington, and John S. Billings.

OHA 12

• Curatorial Records: Expositions, 1876-1893
• .5 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, part arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Records of the Museum's participation in the U.S. Centennial International Exhibition (1876), World's Industrial and Cotton Exposition (1884), and World's Columbian Exposition (1893). Related material is in Curatorial Records: Letterbooks of the Curators and International Exposition of 1876 Medical Department Photographs.

OHA 13

• Curatorial Records: Incoming Correspondence (Loose), 1862-1894
• 2.5 cubic feet, 5 boxes.
• Finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Correspondence, arranged alphabetically, from the first two decades of the Museum's existence. The series ends when the Museum began a correspondence numbering system (see Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence). Includes letters sent to curators John Brinton, George A. Otis, D.L. Huntington, John S. Billings, and Walter Reed. Most of the incoming correspondence from this period is currently missing.

OHA 14

• Curatorial Records: Index to Contributors, 1868-ca. 1870
• .25 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Three volumes alphabetically listing names of people who contributed items to the Museum. Each volume covers one type of object, classified as Surgical (from patients with operable conditions), Anatomical (normal anatomy), and Miscellaneous (artifacts such as instruments, models, and anthropological objects).

OHA 15

• Curatorial Records: Letterbooks of the Curators, 1863-1910
• 8 cubic feet, 17 boxes.
• Finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Bound volumes of outgoing correspondence by curators John Brinton, George A. Otis, D.L. Huntington, John S. Billings, Walter Reed, James Carroll, and F.F. Russell. See Curatorial Records: Outgoing Correspondence (Loose) for other outgoing correspondence that was not recorded in these books.

OHA 16

• Curatorial Records: Letters Received, 1875-1889
• 1 cubic foot, 2 boxes.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Two logbooks containing entries for incoming correspondence under curators George A. Otis, D.L. Huntington, and John S. Billings, listing date, writer, and subject (does not include actual correspondence).

OHA 17

• Curatorial Records: Ludlow Entomology Records, 1889-1924
• 1 cubic foot, 2 boxes.
• Partial finding aid, part arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Correspondence, notes, reports, logbooks, and other research materials of Dr. Clara S. Ludlow, the Museum's chief entomologist. Ludlow's research centered on identifying mosquitoes, including a project working with specimens sent in from military posts, which resulted in a Museum film, "Mosquito Eradication," in 1918.

OHA 18

• Curatorial Records: Notices of Army Medical Museum Publications, 1865-1881
• 1.5 cubic feet, 2 boxes.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Scrapbooks of reviews and acknowledgements of The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, the Catalogue, and Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens. For similar records for Surgeon General's Office see the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division.

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• Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence, 1894-1917
• 15 cubic feet, 30 boxes.
• Partial finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Correspondence and accompanying documents numbered according to a system used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries which assigned a distinct number to particular topics or correspondents. Contains correspondence of curators Walter Reed (including records relating to his yellow fever research), James Carroll, F.F. Russell, Eugene R. Whitmore, and C.C. McCulloch, Jr.

OHA 20

• Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence Reference Cards, 1894-1917
• 1 cubic foot, 2 boxes.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Box 1: Incomplete set of reference cards to numbered correspondence. Many of the cards have been reused and have Civil War references on the back. Box 2: Reference cards to early 20thcentury correspondence arranged by subject. A computer index to the numbered correspondence now serves as a finding aid. There are similar records at the National Library of Medicine.

OHA 21

• Curatorial Records: Outgoing Correspondence (Loose), 1862-1894
• .5 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Correspondence, arranged alphabetically, that was not recorded in the curators' letterbooks (See Curatorial Records: Letterbooks of the Curators) and ending when the Museum began a correspondence numbering system (see Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence). Includes correspondence of curators John Brinton, George A. Otis, D.L. Huntington, John S. Billings, and Walter Reed.

OHA 22

• Curatorial Records: Purchase Requests, 1862-1917
• 4.5 cubic feet, 9 boxes.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Purchase forms and invoices (with many gaps in chronology).

OHA 23

• Curatorial Records: Reports to the Curator, 1885-1892
• .25 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Work reports to curators George A. Otis and John S. Billings, including reports on anthropometry and fire extinguishing procedures from assistant surgeon Washington Matthews; weekly work reports from photographer C.F. Blacklidge; monthly reports from several departments; and an ethnological report from assistant surgeon H.C. Yarrow to Bureau of Ethnology director John Wesley Powell.

OHA 24

• Curatorial Records: Scrapbook of Medical Articles, 1903-1904
• 1 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Scrapbook of articles from medical journals, primarily on yellow fever and typhoid fever.

OHA 25

• Curatorial Records: Smithsonian Correspondence, 1867-1887
• .5 cubic foot, 1 box.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Incoming correspondence, mostly from Smithsonian Secretaries Joseph Henry and Spencer Baird, relating primarily to the exchange of specimens between the Museum and the Smithsonian. George A. Otis, D.L. Huntington, and John S. Billings were curators of the Museum during this time. See Museum Records: Accession Records and Curatorial Records: Letterbooks of the Curators for related correspondence.

OHA 26

• Curatorial Records: Special Correspondence, 1862-1887
• .75 cubic foot, 2 boxes.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Box 1: Correspondence relating to photography and photographic services at the Museum between 1862 and 1885. Includes correspondence of curators George A. Otis, D.L. Huntington, and John S. Billings and Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes. Box 2: Correspondence relating to the craniology collection and craniometric/anthropometric measurement at the Museum between 1862 and 1887, mostly sent to curators Otis and Billings.

OHA 27

• Curatorial Records: Special Lists, 1863-1893
• .25 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Various lists of Museum collections, equipment, and supplies.

OHA 28

• Curatorial Records: Woodward Letterbooks, 1864-1883
• 6 cubic feet, 8 boxes.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Letterbooks with outgoing and incoming correspondence, including some unbound letters, of Joseph J. Woodward, head of the Museum's Medical and Microscopic Sections. See also the Woodward Collection.

OHA 29

• Curatorial Records: World War I and II Photography Records, 1918-1946
• .75 cubic foot, 2 boxes.
• No finding aid, unarranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Records concerning the Museum's photographic activities during World War I and II. World War I material includes documents on Museum Unit #1, a photographic team sent to France to make surgical and pathological photographs, and on the educational film "Fit to Fight" about sexually-transmissible diseases. World War II materials include correspondence and reports about the Museum's Medical Illustration Service which also sent medical photographers to Europe during World War II.

OHA 30

• Curatorial Records: World War II Posters, ca. 1942-1946
• 4 oversize drawers.
• Partial finding aid, part arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Health education posters, including paste-ups and printed copies, created by the Medical Museum's Medical Illustration Service during World War II. Subjects include sexually-transmissible diseases (series of 41 posters); typhus; filiarsis; dengue fever; malaria; hygiene; lice, mosquitos, and other pests; and food preparation. The posters were printed by the Government Printing Office.