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The Barlow Medical Library, Los Angeles, California : dedicated February 7th, 1907
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San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
This collection contains approximately 870 publications and printed items, produced by various organizations, related to hospitals, medicine, medical education, and public health, chiefly in Southern California in the 20th century. The materials were compiled as part of the library of the Los Angeles County Medical Association Collection, a professional institution designed to regulate and encourage the development of the medicine in Los Angeles. The bulk of the collection consists of programs for meetings, conventions, and congresses; annual reports for medical societies, hospitals, and medical schools; and doctor, staff, and medical student directories. In addition, there are reprints of speeches and addresses; yearbooks for medical schools; commemorative, biographical, and historical publications; some original historical documents; by-laws and founding documents; and some planning and administrative documents. The materials include items produced by nearly 200 different authors, though many organizations are represented by only a few items. There are over 140 items published by or about the Los Angeles County Medical Association. The collection also contains seven boxes of catalog cards created by the Los Angeles County Medical Association describing the materials in the collection.
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Rare Books
This collection contains approximately 870 publications and printed items, produced by various organizations, related to hospitals, medicine, medical education, and public health, chiefly in Southern California in the 20th century. The materials were compiled as part of the library of the Los Angeles County Medical Association Collection, a professional institution designed to regulate and encourage the development of the medicine in Los Angeles. The bulk of the collection consists of programs for meetings, conventions, and congresses; annual reports for medical societies, hospitals, and medical schools; and doctor, staff, and medical student directories. In addition, there are reprints of speeches and addresses; yearbooks for medical schools; commemorative, biographical, and historical publications; some original historical documents; by-laws and founding documents; and some planning and administrative documents. The materials include items produced by nearly 200 different authors, though many organizations are represented by only a few items. There are over 140 items published by or about the Los Angeles County Medical Association. The collection also contains seven boxes of catalog cards created by the Los Angeles County Medical Association describing the materials in the collection.
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Manuscripts
This series contains files from the Los Angeles Medical Library, a non-profit corporation formed in the wake of the Los Angeles County Medical Association's decision to close its Library, with the sole purpose of saving the library's collection. Though it shared some of the same officers as the Friends of the LACMA Library, the two organizations were not legally affiliated. Materials include foundational documents such as bylaws and articles of incorporation, documents related to tax status, and correspondence.
Series 3
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Manuscripts
These three volumes of the Barlow Medical Library Association chronicle the first sixteen years of its operation. The volumes include minutes from 1907 to 1932, correspondence pertaining to the function of the library, lists of members, lists of donations, holding records for various years, by-laws and the Association's constitution. The volumes also include six loose items. In volume 1 they include: an obituary for a librarian, minutes for a1920 meeting, and minutes for a 1921 meeting. In volume 2 they include: a form letter from 1914, an undated notice, and a list of articles on fractures from 1912. In volume 3 they include: a pamphlet from the Barlow Medical Library and a note regarding the history of the Association.
mssHM 74862-74864
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Manuscripts
This group of items includes seven budgets for the Los Angeles County Medical Association Library for the years 1946 to 1952. Each yearly budget is broken down into monthly estimated and actual expenditures. They shed light upon the gradual expansion of the library's collection over the years covered.
mssHM 74841-74847