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Includes family letters and documents, 1837-1958; correspondence with individuals, ca. 1941-1975, and with institutions and organizations, ca. 1940-1975; office files, 1937-1975; Harvard Medical School committee and lecture files; addresses and television and radio talks, 1938-1974; publications files; conference materials; student diary and notes, 1920s-1930s; travel files; calendars; and photographs, sound recordings, films, certificates, awards, and other memorabilia. Office files contain Baumgartner's correspondence as Commissioner of Health in New York City from 1937 to 1962; and outgoing correspondence and staff memoranda as Visiting Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard and as Director of the Medical Care and Education Foundation. Publications files include mostly Baumgartner's writings with related research and reference material. Also includes conference correspondence and documents on population control and family planning, and materials relating to Medicine in Society Forums at Harvard.
Biography of Dr. Baumgartner based on research and personal interviews. Submitted to the Department of History of Science and Medicine in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M.D at Yale University.
This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.