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Administrative records of Barlow Medical Library

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1907-1952.
Call number: mssHM 74862-74864
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Los Angeles County Medical Association Library Committee minutes

Manuscripts

These minutes of the Los Angeles County Medical Association Library Committee cover meetings from September 30, 1934 to November 30, 1937. The collected agendas, notes, and related letters are chronologically organized. The material details the incorporation of the Barlow Medical Library, an early controversy concerning library use, and the operations of the institution.

mssHM 74859

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Barlow Medical Library

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and addresses; yearbooks for medical schools; commemorative, biographical, and historical publications; some original historical documents; by-laws and founding documents; and some planning and administrative documents.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.

644034

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Record book of the Oxford Free Public Library

Manuscripts

The volume begins with the "Laws and regulations of Oxford Society Library" (1792, March 29). The volume contains records of the library, meeting minutes, lists of the books checked out, books turned in, etc. There are several pages that have been cut out.

mssHM 75988

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Barlow Medical Library-Barlow Society for the History of Medicine

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644034

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Minute books of the Los Angeles County Medical Association

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The collection contains forty-one (41) volumes of minute books of the Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) from 1871 to 1970. The collection consists of three series: 1. four initial minute books from meetings of the association from its beginning in 1871 to 1905; 2. twenty-eight volumes of minutes from LACMA's Board of Councilors from 1905 to 1970; and 3. nine volumes of the minutes of LACMA's Board of Trustees from 1920 to 1966. The volumes are labeled Volume 1-41; each series is arranged in chronological order. Several prominent California physicians held chief positions with LACMA including Walter Jarvis Barlow, Lewis T. Bullock, George Dock, William R. Molony, and Joseph Pomeroy Widney. Most of the volumes are typewritten but some are handwritten.

mssLACMA minute books

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Volumes 1-4: Los Angeles County Medical Association

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Administrative records of Barlow Medical Library

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