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Manuscripts
This collection contains the records of the Southern California Society for the History of Medicine and its two predecessor organizations, the Friends of the LACMA Library and the George Dock Society for the History of Medicine. Also included are some files from the Los Angeles Medical Library, an unaffiliated organization that shared several of the same officers.
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Rare Books
Contains LACMA shelflist catalog cards that were created by the Los Angeles County Medical Association to describe the materials in their collection. The catalog cards reference the call numbers previously assigned by LACMA to items before being transferred to the Huntington Library.
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Visual Materials
A collection of three photograph albums, approximately 200 loose photographs, and three panoramic photographs related to the Los Angeles County Medical Association. Subjects include portraits of LACMA members; medical personnel, buildings, equipment, and facilities. The panoramic photographs depict a group portrait of a member picnic in Sunland (1923); movie extras dressed as bathing beauties in Venice (1918); and a post-convention clinic at Hal Roach Studios, featuring the movie set and over 100 people in a group portrait (1920). The three albums are: USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, first post-graduate class, Summer 1900; California Hospital, Los Angeles, personnel (doctors and nurses), 1908. Includes original photograph of Leon Czolgosz with Bertillon measurements from the Detective Bureau, Police Department of Buffalo, New York, September 6, 1901; and Portraits of French Doctors of the second half of the 19th century.
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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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Visual Materials
The Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) collection of prints and ephemera contains over 200 printed items related to the medical profession, including satire, medical curiosities, significant figures in the history of medicine, architectural views of hospitals, and the early years of LACMA itself. Many of the prints are engravings, some are lithographs, and a small selection are reproductions printed during a later period. The collection also includes personal correspondence, medical certificates and photographs of members of LACMA from the 20th century. The materials date from 1644 to 1946, although the bulk of the material dates from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. The collection covers topics including medicine, health, pharmaceuticals, patent medicines, quacks and quackery spanning over five centuries, as well as social perspectives on both the practices and practitioners in these fields.
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