OHA 295

• Sawyer Lantern Slides, 1928-1952
• 1.5 cubic feet, 1 box.
• No finding aid, unarranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Lantern slides of otolaryngolic subjects used by Dr. Leroy Lee Sawyer, Jr., of Washington, D.C. Some are from the Army Medical Museum. See also related material in Historical Collections.

OHA 296

• Scheirer Manuscript, 1947
• .05 cubic foot, .1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Manuscript history of the U.S. Army Medical Department called "Chronological Table Showing Some Outstanding Events and Achievements of the Medical Department of the United States Army, 1755-1947" by George Albert Scheirer.

OHA 297

• Schlanser Collection, 1920s-1930s
• 1 cubic foot, 2 boxes.
• No finding aid, part arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Photographs of plastic surgery and otorhinolaryngology collected by Col. Adam E. Schlanser, U.S. Army Medical Corps. Mostly from Walter Reed Hospital. No case histories. Related material is in Anatomical and Historical Collections.

OHA 298

• Seeley Philippines Lantern Slide Collection, 1930s
• .5 cubic foot, 1 box, 1 oversize item.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Medical and anthropological images of the Philippines donated by Brig. Gen. Sam Seeley, U.S. Army Medical Corps, who served at Ft. McKinley. Includes material on leprosy and rickets.

OHA 299

• Shaw Collection, 1861-1865
• .25 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• New testament carried by assistant surgeon M. Eugene Shaw during the Civil War, a cased tintype of Shaw, and his commission as assistant surgeon. He was killed during the American Indian campaigns in 1867. See also related material, including a uniform, sword, and Lincoln mourning badge, in Historical Collections.

OHA 300

• Shell Shock Manuscript, ca. 1920
• .25 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Manuscript titled "The Care and Treatment of Mental Diseases and War Neuroses (Shell Shock) in the British Army" by Maj. Thomas W. Salmon, U.S. Army Medical Director, National Committee for Mental Hygiene.

OHA 301

• Shewbrooks Collection, 1904-1956
• .5 cubic foot, 1 box.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Papers of Maj. Daniel Marsh Shewbrooks, MD, who served as a sanitation instructor in World War I. Includes a notebook, photographs, newsclippings, manuals, Army orders, correspondence, manuscripts, insurance records, and certificates.

OHA 302

• Siler Collection, 1910-1929
• .5 cubic foot, 1 box.
• Partial finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• About 120 photographs belonging to J.F. Siler, U.S. Army Medical Corps. The images show Panama during the building of the canal, including images of mosquito control, drainage, garbage disposal, hospitals, and a leper colony. Siler was director of the Division of Laboratories for the Army Expeditionary Forces during World War I. His contributions to tropical medicine include descriptions of the transmission of dengue and Army policies for typhoid vaccination in World War II. Siler also worked at the Army Medical School (now Walter Reed Army Institute of Research), which holds some of his records.

OHA 303

• Silliphant Collection, 1950s
• 2.5 cubic feet, 3 boxes.
• Partial finding aid, unarranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Papers of Rear Admiral William M. Silliphant, AFIP director from 1955 to 1959. Includes photographs, manuscripts, reprints, curriculum vitae, press releases, newsclippings, correspondence, and a collection of pathological slides.

OHA 304

• Simonds Collection, 1863-1911
• .33 cubic foot, 1 box.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Civil War records of Dr. Justin Simonds, U.S. Army contract surgeon, and his wife Emma L. Simonds, who served as an Army nurse with the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Includes Dr. Simonds's prescription logbook for Ward C of Jackson Hospital, Memphis (1863), and his pension certificate (1911); and E. Simond's nursing appointments to Jackson and Gayaso hospitals in Memphis (1863) and her release certificate from Gayaso (1864). Also includes biographical information.

OHA 305

• Smallpox Vaccination Certificate, 1895
• .1 cubic foot, .1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Smallpox vaccination certificate (Schutzpochen Impefungszeugniss) in German for Paul Ernst, Vienna, May 25, 1895.

OHA 306

• Smellie Midwifery Book, 1787
• 1 oversize item.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Book of obstetrical drawings and information titled Anatomical Tables with Explanations of the Practice of Midwifery by William Smellie, MD (Edinburgh: William Creech, 1787). Smellie developed a type of forceps and other obstetrical instruments.

OHA 307

• Smetana Reprints, 1925-1965
• .25 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, unarranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Incomplete set of reprints of articles by Dr. Hans Smetana, head of AFIP's Hepatic and Pediatric Pathology branches. Also includes a curriculum vitae and bibliography.

OHA 308

• Smith Scrapbook, 1917-1939
• .33 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Scrapbook created by Gertrude Smith documenting her service as a nurse from 1918 to 1921 at Camp Mills, Long Island; Camp Pike, Arkansas; Walter Reed; and Camp Eustis, Virginia. Mostly photographs of nurses, hospitals, and patients, including images of the 1918 influenza epidemic; also newsclippings, correspondence, programs, and a typescript history of Camp Mills which includes the influenza epidemic.

OHA 309

• Sontag Collection, 1899-1941
• .25 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Papers of Charles G. Sontag, a volunteer for Walter Reed's yellow fever experiments in Cuba, 1899-1901. Includes a photograph and list of the volunteers, temperature charts from the experiments, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs of Sontag.

OHA 310

• Soper Slide Collection, 1935-1941
• 2.5 cubic feet, 5 boxes.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Microscope slides of liver sections collected by Dr. Fred L. Soper during his work for the Yellow Fever Service of Brazil. Also includes a manuscript on yellow fever in Brazil. Soper donated the collection to the AFIP in 1969; it was transferred to the Museum in 1982.

OHA 311

• South Korean Medical Department Soldier's Handbooks, 1950s
• .5 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Two copies of South Korean translations of the U.S. Army Medical Department Soldier's Handbook.

OHA 312

• Space Monkey Able Collection, 1959-1961
• 3.5 cubic feet, 4 boxes.
• No finding aid, unarranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• AFIP records related to the autopsy of Space Monkey Able. Includes photographs and slides, microscope slides, correspondence, research applications, reports, newsclippings, and two copies of a 16mm film.

OHA 313

• Spanish-American War Photographs, 1898
• 2 cubic feet, 3 boxes.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Group of photographs showing medical activities in the Spanish-American War; some are bound as "Medical Department Activities in Puerto Rico." Some of these may have been taken by Army Medical Museum staff.

OHA 314

• Squibb Journal, 1850s
• .10 cubic foot, .5 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, restricted.
• Journal belonging to Dr. E.R. Squibb, founder of Squibb Pharmaceuticals. Includes daily entries with descriptions of laboratory work. The journal was damaged by an 1858 fire in Squibb's laboratory; access is restricted due to its poor condition.

OHA 315

• Statz Notebook, 1855-1865
• .01 cubic foot, .33 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, restricted.
• Notebook of Sgt. John Statz, 7th New York Volunteers, which stopped a bullet during the Civil War. Contains copies of letters to the U.S. Legation in Berlin written by Statz while he was in Cologne during the 1850s.

OHA 316

• Steggerda Collection, 1910-1940
• 41 cubic feet, 87 boxes.
• Finding aid available, part arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Anthropometric records collected by Carnegie Institution anthropologist Morris Steggerda. Includes photographs, measurements, hair samples, palm prints, and dental records of American Indians, Jamaicans, Tuskeegee University students, and white Americans.

OHA 317

• Stereoscopic Anatomy and Pathology Sets, 1910-1952
• 7 cubic feet, 23 boxes.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Published stereographs illustrating anatomy and pathology, received variously from Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Muskoka Pioneer Village in Ontario, Canada, and Dale N. Lawrence. Includes "The Edinburgh Stereoscopic Atlas of Anatomy," "Edinburgh University Stereoscopic Anatomy" (Cunningham and Watson), "The Stereoscopic Skin Clinic" (S.I. Rainforth), and "A Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy" (D.L. Bassett).

OHA 318

• Sterling Letter, October 1842
• .05 cubic foot, .1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Letter offering a position as physician to a Dr. Sterling, sent by John Chapman of Twilligate, Newfoundland, including a resolution from the Twilligate town meeting.

OHA 319

• Sternberg Photomicrographs, 1879
• .75 cubic foot.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Two volumes of photomicrographs taken by Dr. G.M. Sternberg, Surgeon General from 1893 to 1902 and a pioneering American bacteriologist. He started the Army Medical School (now Walter Reed Army Institute of Research) at the Museum. One volume is titled "National Board of Health Photomicrographs, Vol. I, Havana Commission," which contains photomicrographs of yellow fever blood. The other is untitled. Other photomicrographs by Sternberg can be found in Contributed Photographs. Personal possessions of Sternberg are in Historical Collections.

OHA 320

• Stoner Collection, 1851-1923
• .01 cubic foot, .1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Five pieces of ephemera: "Table of Charges for Professional Services," Lancaster City and County Medical Society 1851; two Hamot Hospital (Erie, Pennsylvania) bills (photocopies), 1916 and 1923; two prescriptions, one dated 1858. Two additional pieces from this donation are in Historical Collections.

OHA 321

• Stuart Electron Microscope Material, 1940s-1980s
• 1 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, unarranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Photomicrographs, journals, and reprints collected by Donald C. Stuart, Jr., the first person to photograph the polio virus in the 1950s at the New York State Department of Health in Albany.

OHA 322

• Sturm Collection, 1985
• 4.5 cubic foot, 9 boxes.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Paintings done by Dorothy Sturm to illustrate The Morphology of Human Blood Cells by Sturm, Diggs, and Bell (Abbott Press, 1985). Illustrations show anemia, cancer, leukemia, and tropical diseases. Includes two editions of the book.

OHA 323

• Surgeon General's Office Records, 1861-1970s
• 4.5 cubic feet, 7 boxes.
• No finding aid, part arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Printed records of the Surgeon General's Office including circular letters and orders (most 1860s); annual reports (1863-1881, 1958-1971); quarterly reports (1875-1882); and lists of medical officers (1862-1876). Also includes several scrapbooks holding printed material from the post-Civil War period, such as blank forms and envelopes, regulations, circular letters, and Army Medical Museum specimen labels.

OHA 324

• Swan Correspondence, 1902-1916
• .05 cubic foot, .1 box.
• Partial finding aid, part arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Incoming correspondence of Dr. John M. Swan relating to his work for the American Society of Tropical Medicine, the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and the New York Medical Journal. Subjects discussed include tropical medicine, the Army Medical School, and the American Red Cross.

OHA 325

• Swan Vietnam Slide Collection, 1970
• 12 cubic feet, 35 boxes.
• Partial finding aid, part arranged, inactive, restricted.
• Slides of 190 cases of high-velocity missile trauma surgery from the Vietnam War. Collected by Dr. Kenneth M. Swan of the Surgeon General's Office. Sets of these slides are also held by the Borden Center of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Casualty Care Research Center at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.

OHA 326

• Swift Collection, 1898-1930s
• .5 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Items belonging to Earle R. Swift, M.D. (1873-1958), a doctor in rural Michigan in the early 20th century. Includes photographs, a license, a ledger, and a notebook of prescriptions, with some material on obstetrics, as well as a biography written by his daughter. Accompanies a doctor's bag and instruments in Historical Collections.

OHA 327

• Taggert Venereal Disease Lantern Slides, ca. 1950
• .25 cubic foot, 1 box.
• Finding aid available, unarranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Lantern slides of sexually-transmissible disease conditions given to the Army Medical Museum in 1950 by Dr. Taggert, chief of the venereal diseases section of the Washington, D.C., Public Health Department.

OHA 328

• Taylor Photographs, 1940s
• .75 cubic foot, 3 boxes.
• No finding aid, unarranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Negatives of malnutrition patients, labeled "Capt. Taylor."

OHA 329

• Terry Audiotape Collection, 1954-1956
• 2 cubic feet, 2 boxes.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Fifty-six lectures on reel-to-reel audiotapes by AFIP pathologist Lent C. Johnson recorded by Roger Terry, an orthopedic surgeon, during his Air Force assignment at the AFIP. Also two audiograph discs. Most of the talks are on orthopedic pathology; some are from a meeting of the American Rheumatism Association. Also includes an Edward R. Murrow interview with J.R. Oppenheimer and talks by other AFIP doctors. Otis Historical Archives does not have a machine to play these tapes.

OHA 330

• Thomson Photomicrographs, 1876
• .3 cubic foot.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Two copies of an album of photomicrographs made by Dr. William Thomson in 1864 during the Civil War at Douglas Hospital in Washington, DC.  The photographs were made "to demnostrate the value of photomicography and its possibility with the compound microscope then issued by the Surgen General's Office to the general hospitals." (from the introductory note.)   These albums were compiled for and exhibited at the U.S Centennial International Exhibition (1876). A Union doctor during the Civil War, Thomson contributed to writing the Museum's Catalogue and pioneered in photomicrography and ophthalmic surgery.  One album is the Surgeon General's Library copy (SGL #72845) and has an introductory handwritten note by Dr. J. J. Woodward; the second album (MM8615-2) was Assistant Surgeon General Crane's personal copy.

OHA 331

• Torp Film Collection, 1950s-1980s
• 5 cubic feet, 5 boxes.
• Partial finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Films (16mm and videotapes) and some papers of Maj. Mary Jane Torp of the U.S. Army Women's Medical Specialist Corps (now the U.S. Army Medical Specialist Corps). Films show physical therapy of Korean War soldiers with spinal cord and head injuries at Walter Reed Hospital. Includes lists of films and case histories.

OHA 332

• Total Eclipse of the Sun Photographs, 1869-1870
• .33 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Photographs and other records of a joint Army Medical Museum-U.S. Naval Observatory expedition to observe the solar eclipse on August 7, 1869, in Des Moines, Iowa. Edward Curtis, assistant to Museum photographer Joseph J. Woodward, led the Army party. Includes photographs of the eclipse taken through a telescope, a photograph of the telescope, and correspondence and reports, including a published report by Commodore B.F. Sands, superintendent of the Naval Observatory.

OHA 333

• Townsend Collection, 1950s-1960s
• 16 cubic feet, 12 boxes.
• No finding aid, unarranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Papers and files of Gen. Frank Townsend, MD, U.S. Air Force. Towsend served as director of the AFIP from 1959 to 1963 and worked in aerospace medicine. Includes minutes, reports, correspondence, and office files. See also the AFIP Historical Files.

OHA 334

• Training Aids Section Files, 1955-1963
• 3.5 cubic feet, 7 boxes.
• No finding aid, part arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Records of a defunct AFIP division concerned with medical training, which grew out of work done at the Museum. Includes material on films, moulages, manikins, and other training aids. Many of the products are in Historical Collections.

OHA 335

• Tripp Collection, 1894-ca. 1930
• .25 cubic foot, 1 box.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Papers of Dr. George Alston Tripp of Massachusetts, including a photograph and six notebooks kept while attending the Medical School of Maine (Bowdoin) in 1896. The notebooks contain information on doses, anatomy, cranial nerves, surgery, children's diseases, and chemistry. See also related objects in Historical Collections.

OHA 336

• Typhus Control in Italy Lantern Slide Set, ca. 1930s
• .5 cubic foot, 1 box.
• No finding aid, part arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Training slide set showing typhus control in Italy, including images of lice, equipment, and statistics.

OHA 337

• Typhus Fever Report, 1945-1953
• 1 cubic foot, 2 boxes.
• No finding aid, unarranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Copies of "The Pathology of Epidemic Typhus Fever," an unpublished report on the outbreak of typhus in Egypt from 1943 to 1945 by the Committee on Pathology, Division of Medical Sciences, National Research Council, with AFIP support. Includes correspondence, drafts, and photographs.

OHA 338

• U.S. Army Ambulance Material, 1859-1960s
• 1.5 cubic feet, 2 boxes.
• No finding aid, part arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Assembled material on the history of U.S. Army ambulances from the Civil War to World War I. Includes originals and copies of Army specifications, regulations, correspondence, and drawings, and photographs of ambulance wagons, railroad cars, and ships.

OHA 339

• U.S. Army Medical Department Registers, 1862-1879
• 12 cubic feet, 31 boxes, 2 oversize folders.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Logbooks compiled during and after the Civil War, titled "Register of Surgical Operations" and "Register of the Sick and Wounded." Each volume covers a type of injury or operation, including head, neck, upper extremity, lower extremity, and gunshot wounds; ligations, excisions, and amputations. Also two logbooks from the Bureau of Surgical Records, Surgeon General's Office, listing reported operations and injuries as well as clerk activity reports; as well as charts of rations, medicines, and Confederate casualties. The records were used for The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion.

OHA 340

• U.S. Army Medical Department Slide Lecture, 1945
• .05 cubic foot, .1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Lecture consisting of 48 slides on the role of the U.S. Army Medical Department during World War II, including Medal of Honor winners. The slides have text alternating with photographs.

OHA 341

• U.S. Army Medical Technical Bulletins, 1943-1968
• 1 cubic foot, 2 boxes.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Incomplete run of Army Medical Technical Bulletins from World War II to the 1960s. The finding aid lists titles of each bulletin. Subjects include typhus, malaria, sanitation, tuberculosis, neurology, psychiatry, training, and sexually-transmissible diseases.

OHA 342

• U.S. Army Post Records, 1865-1880
• 2 cubic feet, 3 boxes.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Bound alphabetical list (1875-1880) of post hospitals and their commanding surgeon; 1875 prescription book from Ft. Union, New Mexico; bound volume of meteorological records from Ft. Bascom, New Mexico (1865-1870); two volumes of bound meteorological records from Ft. Independence, Massachusetts (1877-1879) and from Camp Cady, California (1869-1871).

OHA 343

• U.S. Army Signal Corps Photographs, ca. 1917-1940s
• 5 cubic feet, 10 boxes.
• Partial finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• U.S. Army Signal Corps photographs of medical subjects. Identical to the master set at the National Archives. Includes a box of lantern slides. The Army Medical Museum jointly produced photographs with the Signal Corps during World War I, retaining a set of negatives. There are also Signal Corps photographs in the Reeve Collection, World War I Glass Plate Negatives, and New Contributed Photographs.

OHA 344

• U.S. Army Veterinary Corps Archive (AVCA), 1916-1979
• 98 cubic feet, 169 boxes.
• Partial finding aid, part arranged, active, unrestricted.
• Records of the Army Veterinary Corps which were collected in preparation for a never-published book. See also the Lee Collection for related material.

OHA 345

• U.S. Naval Examining Board Logbooks, 1902-1951
• 3 cubic feet, 2 boxes.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Seven logbooks of the Naval Examining Board recording admissions and promotions in the U.S. Navy Dental Corps, Medical Corps, Medical Service Corps, Nurse Corps, and Senior Board of Medical Examiners.

OHA 346

• U.S. Navy Medical Department Census, 1945
• .25 cubic foot, .5 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• ensus of personnel in the U.S. Navy Medical Department, recorded on typewritten sheets bound in cardboard.

OHA 347

• U.S. Navy Registers of Dental Officers, ca. 1917-1919
• 1.5 cubic feet, 1 box.
• Finding aid available, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Four logbooks recording Navy dental officers, active and reserve, in the World War I era.

OHA 348

• U.S.S. General Harry Taylor Medical Department Log
• .2 cubic foot, .1 box.
• No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.
• Logbook of the medical department of the U.S. Navy transport U.S.S. General Harry Taylor during World War II. Contains daily log entries as well as personnel, passenger, surgery, and sick call lists.