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Collection
Identifier: 1999-010
Abstract
The People’s Institute was organized in 1904 to improve living conditions for the women and children in the northern end of Portland. The impetus for the Institute was a report by Valentine Prichard, supervisor of the public school kindergartens and principal of a training school for kindergarten teachers. This report, given in 1902 to Dr. Edgar P. Hill, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, along with Caroline Ladd and her daughter Helen Ladd Corbett, described the deplorable conditions...
Dates:
1907-1909; 1998; Majority of material found within 1907 - 1909
Collection
Identifier: 2008-010
Abstract
The People’s Institute worked to provide social services for the urban poor while the Portland Free Dispensary was an early effort to provide health services to the underserved. They served as a model of collaboration between the city’s charitable organizations and its medical community. This collection contains a variety of reports, correspondence, and other materials relating to the work of the People's Institute and Portland Free Dispensary.
Dates:
1919-1932
Collection
Identifier: 2001-002
Abstract
Started in 1904 by Valentine Prichard and a number of interested parties, the People's Institute grew over the years to provide services to the poor and those unable to pay for medical services. in 1910, members of the University of Oregon Medical School were appointed trustees and assigned fourteen staff to the dispensary. In 1931, after 24 years of operation, the People's Institute and Free Dispensary was re-deployed as the Outpatient Clinic and fully under the Medical School. This...
Dates:
1919-1930
Collection
Identifier: 2013-027
Abstract
Ralph Edward Peterson, M.D., graduated from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1956 and served in the U.S. Air Force as a First Lieutenant and as Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at the Clark Air Force Base in Manila, Philippines from 1960 to 1966. From 1968 until he retired, Peterson practiced medicine in Naples, FL, and also served in the National Guard from 1977 to 1991. This collection documents the life of Dr. Peterson, his education, and his career through certificates, course...
Dates:
1947-2013
Collection
Identifier: 2022-003
Abstract
Revolutions in medical and pharmaceutical technologies during the mid-20th century not only greatly improved the quality of care provided by doctors and medical personnel, but also provided pharmaceutical companies the opportunity to improve their advertising and market campaigns in new and uniquely visual ways. The Pharmaceutical Promotions collection spans from 1925 to 1965, and includes pharmaceutical promotional prints, advertisements, magazine clippings, and visual materials that serve...
Dates:
1925-1965
Collection
Identifier: 2015-022
Abstract
The written prescriptions, scrapbook and assorted medicinal bottles were a part of Robert Ambrose's personal collection. Many of the written prescriptions in the scrapbook were created during the late 1890s by F.H. Caldwell, a pharmacist from North Yamhill, Oregon.
Dates:
1890-1911
Collection
Identifier: 2015-006
Abstract
The Pharmacy Department Collection contains one box of textural materials pertaining to medication management, the pharmaceutical departments of OHSU, news articles and newsletters (1979-2000), staff correspondence (1986-1988) and the Comparable Worth Study (1989).
Dates:
1979-2015
Collection
Identifier: 2010-005
Abstract
Grace Phelps (1871-1952) was a prominent Oregonian health professional and nursing advocate who maintained a career as a practicing nurse from approximately 1900 to 1942. This collection houses the professional and public records of Grace Phelps, and includes materials relating to her time as head nurse at Base Hospitals 45 and 46 during WWI; head nurse at the Portland Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital; and Superintendent at Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children.
Dates:
1889-2008; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1946
Collection
Identifier: 2004-030
Abstract
Lucy I. Davis began her service at UOMS in 1918 and continued her duties until shortly before her death on October 8, 1943. While registrar, Lucy compiled the record of the activities of women graduates of the school. The materials were added to the Library collection. Materials included in the collection (originally in the form of a scrapbook) are photographs, biographical information, obituaries, newspaper clippings, chronological graduate lists, marital statuses, survey forms,...
Dates:
1852 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1959
Collection
Identifier: 2004-016
Abstract
The collection consists of one single bound receipt ledger for an unidentified medical organization listing monthly dues, initiation fees, and fines charged doctors as well as suspensions and expulsions of members from 1847-1853.
Dates:
1847-1853
