Medicine and Health
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Oregon nurses photograph album
Album containing portraits and snapshots of nurses and children. The images include scenes of nurses playing a guitar, talking on the telephone, and gardening with shovels. Identified locations include Salem and Portland, Oregon.
Oregon Social Hygiene Society records
Records of an Oregon social service organization that was founded in 1911, at the urging of the Young Men's Christian Association, to limit the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and to combat "social vices" such as prostitution, gambling, and childhood immorality. Most files were created by Fred B. Messing, who served as executive secretary from 1929 to 1941. Includes correspondence, subject files, minutes of meetings, financial records, and educational literature.
Oregon State Hospital collection
Materials relating to the Oregon State Hospital, collected by Reta Rahn Musgrave when she was a nurse there. Collection includes black and white photographs of the grounds, buildings, and staff; surgical department statistics; and an inventory of surgical and operating room furniture and supplies.
Oregon State Pharmaceutical Association records
Collection consists of correspondence, 1935-1937, regarding business matters, mostly from OSPA president Roy A. Perry; miscellaneous documents regarding the OSPA convention in Gearhart, Oregon, 1934-1935, including membership lists and a speech by Perry.
Bethenia Owens-Adair papers
Papers of Bethenia Owens-Adair (1840-1926), including letters from Jesse Applegate, a speech by Owens-Adair in support of women's suffrage, a pro-eugenics booklet by Owens-Adair, and a letter from Owens-Adair to Fred Lockley. Owens-Adair was one of the first women working as doctors in Oregon to hold a medical degree, and was active in the temperance, women's suffrage, and eugenics movements.
Portland Hospital records
Collection includes miscellaneous papers, correspondence, and newspaper clippings, 1888-1904, concerning the Portland Hospital, its Methodist roots, various legal troubles and Dr. Osman Royal of the Homeopathic Medical Society.
Valentine Prichard papers
Papers of the director of the People's Institute of Portland, Oregon, a non-sectarian service organization for women and children. The collection contains organizational records, subject files, a small amount of correspondence, and papers written by Valentine Prichard.
Reflections on the Global Pandemic of 1918
Short history about life at Camp Lewis, Washington, during the 1918 influenza epidemic, with a focus on Major Herbert Merton Greene and Jenny Todd Booth, who served at the base hospital as acting base hospital commander and chief of nurses, respectively. Also includes biographical details about Greene and Booth, who married in October 1918. Jenny Greene later changed her first name to Jeanne.
Dr. W. Tyler Smith account book
Account book of a physician in Sheridan, Oregon, 1906-1909, regarding patients and medical expenses.
Oral history interview with John H. Steelquist
Oral history interview with John H. Steelquist conducted by Deborah M. Frosaker on December 8, 1977. Steelquist discusses the medical work of his maternal great-grandmother, Catherine Davis, and the pharmaceutical career of his maternal grandfather, Melancthon Marshall Davis, in 19th- and 20th-century Oregon.