Finding Aid for OHA 38: Museum Records, Articles and Clippings

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by  Eric W. Boyle

National Museum of Health and Medicine
Otis Historical Archives

OHA 38
Museum Records: Articles and Clippings

Date of Records: 1863-Present

Size: 5 linear feet, 9 boxes

Finding Aid by: Eric W. Boyle (2013)

Access and Use: The Otis Historical Archives is committed to providing open access to its collections as
far as possible within the limits of privacy and confidentiality. Some of the records may contain
restricted material. Access to this collection is at the discretion of the Otis Historical Archives and
material contained within the records may be subject to review before access is granted.
Series/Scope and Content Note: This collection consists primarily of newspaper, magazine, and
journal articles, arranged chronologically, that reference the Museum or Museum staff. Articles
written by Museum staff are also included in this collection, which overlaps and complements OHA
69—Museum Records: Publications. This collection also includes a few audio and videotapes of
media programs. SEE ALSO Museum Records: Education/Public Programs, Levinson Office Files, and
the NMHM Audiovisual Collection for related material.

BOX AND CONTENT LIST

Box 001: 1863-1956

00001: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1863

 Article transcription from American Medical Times 6 (May23, 1863): 249.
 First Annual Report of the Army Medical Museum (Jan 10, 1863).

00002: Museum Publicity and Media Relations, 1866-1871

 Anonymous (S. Weir Mitchell), “The Case of George Dedlow,” The Atlantic Monthly XVIII
(July 1866): 1-11.
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 J.J. Woodward, “The Army Medical Museum at Washington,” Lippincott’s Magazine VII
(March 1871): 233-242.
 J.J. Woodward, “Microscopical Memoranda, for the Use of Practitioners in Medicine,“ and
“Dr. J.J. Woodward in Reply to Dr. Lionel S. Beale,” The Lens I (July/Oct. 1872): 158-64 and
208-10.
 Louis Bagger, “The Army Medical Museum in Washington,” Appleton’s Journal IX (March 1,
1873): 294-97.
 Ames, Mary Clemmer, Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a
Woman Sees Them (Hartford, Conn: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1874); Chapter XLII: The Army
Medical Museum—Its Curiosities and Wonders, pp. 474-90.

00003: Museum Publicity and Media Relations, 1884-89

 “Taking his own life while an inmate of an insane asylum,” New York Times (Aug. 22, 1884).
 “A Medical Palace: The Library of the Surgeon General’s Office and the Army Medical
Museum at Washington,” New York Herald (June 30, 1889).

00004: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1894-98

 “The Army Medical Museum at Washington D.C.,” Medical and Surgical Reporter (Aug.
1894): 30-34.
 William Donnally, “An Opportunity for a Great National Museum,” Transactions of the
American Dental Association (1895): 134-49.
 Charles Smart, “The Army Medical Museum and the Library of the Surgeon General’s
Office,” The Journal of the American Medical Association 24 (1895): 577-80.
 Charles Smart, “The Army Medical Museum and the Library of the Surgeon General’s
Office,” Military Institutions of the U.S. 14 (1896): 288-99.
 John H. Brinton, “Closing Exercises of the Session 1895-96, Army Medical School,” The
Journal of the American Medical Association 26 (March 28, 1896): 599-605.
 D.L. Huntington, “The Army Medical Library and Museum: Their Practical Usefulness and
Future Possibilities,” Transactions of the Medical Society (of DC) in National Medical Review
(1898): 66-72.

00005: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1901-03

 Thomas Wilson, “Arrow Wounds,” American Anthropologist 3 (Jul-Sept 1901): 513-31.
 “Czolgosz’s Bones to be in Museum: Will be Kept with Those of Guiteau and Wilkes Booth in
Washington,” Chicago Daily Tribune (Oct. 13, 1901): 51.
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 M.E. Abbott, “On the Classification of Museum Specimens: With an Exposition of a Decimal
Classification of Museum Specimens Applied in the Pathological Museum of McGill
University, After a Plan Suggested by the Late Professor Wyatt Johnston,” American
Medicine (April 4, 1904): 541-44.
 “Drag Hull’s Sister from White House: Congressman’s Relative Went to See the President to
Plead for her Husband,” The New York Times (Jan. 5, 1906). (subject: wife of Dr. Minor
Morris of the Army Medical Museum protests his dismissal)

00006: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1917-20
 Champe C. McCulloch, “The Scientific and Administrative Achievement of the Medical Corps
of the United States Army,” The Scientific Monthly 4 (May 1917): 410-27.
 “An Historical Exhibit of Military Medicine,” The Military Surgeon (March 1918): 351-55.
 Carl Easton Williams, “To Make the Army ‘Fit to Fight’: A Review of the War Department
Film by Edward H. Griffith Exposing the Dangers of Wine, Women and Disease,” Physical
Culture (Aug. 1918): 38-39, 68-69.
 Maj. R.W. Shufeldt, “The New Army Medical Museum on the Map,” Medical Review of
Reviews 24 (Oct. 1918): 596-99.
 “Activities of the Museum and Library Division of the Surgeon General’s Office,” Review of
War Surgery and Medicine I (Dec. 1918): 69-74.
 “Exhibition of the Medical Activities of the War,” The Journal of the Arkansas Medical
Society 15 (April 1919): 223-26.
 “Exhibition of the Medical Activities of the War,” (cont. from April issue) The Journal of the
Arkansas Medical Society 15 (May 1919): 239-41.
 W.O. Owen, “The Army Medical Museum,” reprinted from the New York Medical Journal
(June 1, 1918): 1-9.
 Maj. R.W. Shufeldt, “An Overlooked Chapter in the History of the Army Medical Museum,”
Medical Review of Reviews 25 (Aug. 1, 1919): 460-76.
 Charles H. Mayo, “Educational Possibilities of the National Medical Museum in the
Standardization of Medical Training,” reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical
Association 73 (Aug. 9, 1919): 411-13.
 Col. Chas. F. Craig, “The Army Medical Museum,” reprinted from The Military Surgeon (Dec.
1919): 1-14.
 Col. Louis B. Wilson, “Museum and Art Service of the American Expeditionary Forces,” The
Military Surgeon (Feb. 1920): 165-72.
 Maj. James R. Coupal, “A Method for the Museum Display of the Gross Pathology of War
Wounds,” The Military Surgeon (April 1920): 352-58.
 Charles F. Craig, “The Army Medical Museum and the Medical Profession,” reprinted from
Modern Medicine 2 (Aug. 1920): 1-8.
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00007: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1926-38
 Lt. Col. Henry Crecy Yarrow, “Personal Reflections of Some Old Medical Officers” (series)
o (Clement Alexander Finley, Charles Stuart Tripler) The Military Surgeon (Sept. 1926):
344-46.
o (William J. Sloan, George E. Cooper) The Military Surgeon (Oct. 1926): 472-76.
o (Andrew Kingsbury Smith, Charles Henry Crane, Basil Norris) The Military Surgeon
(Nov. 1926): 599-602.
o (George A. Otis, John F. Rudolph, James Simons) The Military Surgeon (Jan. 1927):
73-76.
o (Joseph Janvier Woodward, John Shaw Billings, William Alexander Hammond) The
Military Surgeon (Feb. 1927): 171-75.
o (David L. Huntington, Jedediah Hyde Baxter, Robert Maitland O’Reilly, Washington
Matthews) The Military Surgeon (April 1927): 449-55.
o (Elliott Coues, Josiah Simpson, Horace Raquet Wirtz,) The Military Surgeon (May
1927): 588-93.
 “Dr. D.S. Lamb Left His Body to Science: Washington Pathologist’s Wish is Carried Out—
Brain Goes to Cornell Collection,” Special to The New York Times (April 23, 1929): 20.
 Maj. William Gerry Morgan, “Contributions of the Medical Department of the United States
Army to the Advancement of Knowledge: With Particular Reference to Fields not Directly
Connected with the Practice of Military Medicine,” The Military Surgeon 66 (June 1930):
779-90.
 “The Army Medical Museum,” The Army Medical Bulletin 34 (1936): 63-67.
 Harold Welllington Jones, “A Portrait Gallery of Physicians: The Collection in the Army
Medical Library,” Annals of Medical History IX (Nov. 1937): 517-32.
 Editorial, “Army Medical Museum and Library,” The Journal of the American Medical
Association (June 18, 1938): 2084.
 Hazel O’Hara, “The Post Impressionist: Etude Philosophique,” The Washington Post (Aug. 27,
1938).

00008: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1939-41
 Editorial, “Army Medical Library,” The Evening Star (March 26, 1939).
 “Army Medical Library,” AOU Register (n.d.)
 “Horse and Buggy Doctor Here,” The Evening Star (March 29, 1939).
 “Moral: Don’t Swallow Safety Pins,” Times Herald (Aug. 7, 1939): 1.
 Luther Huston, “Army’s Medical Lore,” New York Times (Sept. 17, 1939): 119.
 “Army Medical Corps,” Army and Navy Register (Sept. 23, 1939).
 Earl Godwin, “New Museum Plans Pushed by Roosevelt: Buildings to Cost Millions; Modern
Housing for all Scientific Exhibits Asked,” Times Herald (Oct. 11, 1939): 5.
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 “Clinical Assembly Opens at Anderson Hospital: Prominent Speakers to Take Part on
Program Tonight—200 Expected,” The Anderson (S.C.) Daily Mail (Sept. 17, 1940): 2.
 “Army Needs 10,000… Col. Ash Speaks at Meeting Here: Physicians Gathered in City Told
How Medical Corps Functions,” The Anderson Daily Mail (Sept. 18, 1940): 1.
 William Boyd, “The Function of the Museum in the Medical School,” The Journal of the
American Medical Association 116 (May 31, 1941): 2545-46
 “U.S. Pathologists Elect Goldblatt: Clevelander to be President of Society in 1942,” The
Cleveland Plain Dealer (June 1, 1941): 7-A.
 “D.C. Clerk Opens Tin, Finds Human Heart,” and “Tin Can, Heart Mystery Solved by Army
Man,” The Washington Star (June 6 and 9, 1941).

00009: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1942-45
 Wayland Hier, “War Wounds in Wax Help Medical Training of 76th,” The Fort Meade Post
(Oct. 16, 1942): 3.
 “Seminars at Army Medical Museum,” The Bulletin of the U.S. Army Medical Department 73
(Feb. 1944): 106.
 Howard T. Karsner, “Army Medical Museum: Army Institute of Pathology,” The Journal of
the American Medical Association 124 (March 11, 1944): 710-11.
 J.E. Ash, “The Army Medical Museum in This War,” reprint from the Southern Medical
Journal 37 (May 1944): 261-66.
 Jane Stafford, “Photographs Aid Doctors: Sick, Wounded May Get Well Sooner Because of
Photos Taken by MAMAS,” Science Service (Aug. 20-26, 1944).

00010: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1946-49
 Frank H. H. Roberts, “One Hundred Years of Smithsonian Anthropology,” Science, New
Series 104 (Aug. 9, 1946): 119-25.
 John Clagett Proctor, “Army Medical Museum,” The Sunday Star (Jan. 5, 1947): C-2.
 Col. Raymond O. Dart, “The Army Medical Museum,” reprinted from The Bulletin of the
International Association of Medical Museums 27 (Oct. 1947): 12-22.
 “Arms, Legs Shipped in Whisky By Union Army Arrived Dry,” The Sunday Star (Feb. 20, 1949):
A-20.
 George H. Hall, “Army Medical Museum: Its Exhibits Send Chills Down Spine,” St. Louis Post-
Dispatch (June 1949): Part Six.
 Misc. Clippings (Source or Date Not Noted or Attributed):
o Arthur W. Hodgkins, “Army Medical Center,” letter to the editor of The Post.
o John R. Immer, “Home for Hirshhorn Art,” letter to the editor.
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o “New Army Medical Library and Museum Plans Announced: Jefferson Memorial
Architects to Design Big Structure.”
o “House Unit Approved Army Museum Measure.”
o “Army Medical Library Urged by Physicians.”
o “Group Urges Army Medical Museum Fund: Doctors of Academy Convening Here
Ask New Buildings Be Provided for Records.”
o “3 ¾ Millions Asked for New Army Library: Sheppard Asks Senate for Museum Cash.”
o “Art Museum Bill Runs Into House Snag.”
o “New Medical Museum Sought.”
o “Photograph War Wounds: Army Medical Museum Force Will Also Aid Plane
Builders.”
o “Army Museum Visitors.”
o “Army Dental Corps,” Army and Navy Register.
o “D.C. Skeleton Gets Muscles at Cost of $450.”
o “’Horse-Buggy Doctor’ Arises at 1:53 Every Morning: Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler, Here on
Lecture Tour, Tells Amusing Tales.”
o “Wooden Leg of War Prisoner, Camp Hero, Given to Museum,” Post (Sept. 17).
o Thomas Elliston, “GI Sculptor Molded Himself a Job: Cortizas Exhibits Art at Silver
Spring Show,” Times Herald.
o Michael Lomax, “200-Year-Old Microscopes Set for Medical Museum Display,”
Washington Post.

00011: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1950-53
 E. R. Whitehurst, “The Evolution of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and Related
Problems of Administration,” reprinted from The Military Surgeon 106 (April 1950):300-09.
 Raymond O. Dart, “The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,” editorial reprinted from The
American Journal of Clinical Pathology 20 (Oct. 1950): 990-92.
 Raymond O. Dart, “The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Its Role in American Medicine,”
reprinted from The Military Surgeon 107 (Nov. 1950): 345-61.
 Walter W. Dowling, “Search and Research,” Life of the Soldier and the Airman 35 (April
1953): 10-12.
 John McKelway, “Our ‘Strangest’ Things Are on View in This Museum,” The Evening Star
(July 13, 1953).
 “Illustration Chief Ends 36 Years’ Service in Armed Forces Unit,” The Evening Star (Aug. 26,
1953): B-10.
 “Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,” The Journal of the American Medical Association 153
(Sept. 5, 1953): 24-25.
 Melvin A. Casberg, “A Tribute to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,” extract from U.S.
Armed Forces Medical Journal IV (Dec. 1953): 1667-74.

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00012: “Medical Museum News” from AFIP Weekly Bulletin, May 4, 1955-Sept. 4, 1956
 Includes information on museum activities, exhibits, and misc. information on visitors and
acquisitions.

Box 002: 1954-1975
00013: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1954-57
 Lawrence G. Blochman, “Doctors of Medical Mystery,” reprinted by The Saturday Evening
Post (1954).
 “GI Chamber of Horrors,” Focus 4 (Feb. 3, 1954): 12-15.
 Hugh R. Gilmore, Jr., “The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,” Laboratory Investigation 4
(July-Aug 1954): 270-76.
 Morris C. Leikind, “Army Medical Museum and Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in
Historical Perspective,” The Scientific Monthly 79 (Aug. 1954): 71-78.
 Francelia Butler, “Science Backs the Old Cures,” The Washington Star Pictorial Magazine
(Sept. 12, 1954): 10.
 Elbert DeCoursey, Editorial: “Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,” reprinted from The
American Journal of Clinical Pathology 25 (May 1955): 554-55.
 Hugh R. Gilmore, “Malaria at Washington Barracks and Fort Myer: Survey by Walter Reed,”
reprinted from Bulletin of the History of Medicine 29 (July-Aug 1955): 346-51.
 Charles Stanley White, “The Last Illness of Major Walter Reed,” reprinted from Medical
Annals of the District of Columbia 24 (Aug. 1955): 396-98.
 “Medical Museum,” AFIP Weekly Bulletin XI (Sept. 21, Nov. 16, 1955).
 Fraser Edwards, “Gen. Sickles Lost a Leg—and His Heart,” New York World-Telegram and
Sun (Oct. 21, 1955)
 Edward B. Smith, Harold Gordon, and Maurice Lev, “The Purposes, Content, and Usage of
the Medical Museum: Analysis of a Survey,” reprinted from Laboratory Investigation 4 (Nov-
Dec 1955): 414-28.
 “Medical Museum News,” AFIP Weekly Bulletin (April 17 and May 22, 1956).
 “Antonio Cortizas, 51, Dies; Army’s Medical Sculptor,” The Evening Star (April 26, 1956).
 “Museum Lab Sees Greater Role Of Plastic Mounts in Teaching,” Service Stripe (June 8,
1956): 2.
 “Of Another Era—Pvt. Jo Ann Louise Sharp of the AFIP Management Office admires Civil War
surgeon’s uniform worn by Col. Hugh R. Gilmore, Jr.,” Service Stripe (June 15, 1956).
 “Lincoln Death Bullet on Exhibit,” Washington Star (June 23, 1956).
 Bill Olcheski, “Medical Collections in Spotlight,” Air Force Times (June 30, 1956): 42.
 “Plastic Boxes—Marion Wilcox shapes the plastic ‘framework’ used for mounting gross
tissues in the AFIP medical museum laboratory,” n.d.
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 Helen R. Purtle, “Notes on the Medical Museum of the Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology,” reprinted from Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 44 (July 1956): 300-
305.
 “The Georgetowner,” review of Dorothea Jones, Washington in Wonderful. Harper and
Bros., 1956. (Sept. 13, 1956)
 “District May Face Loss of Medical Museum: Famed Institution, Redevelopment Victim,
Attracts 200,000 Annually,” Washington Star (Feb. 17, 1957): A1, A6.
 Jean White, “Curious and Interesting Exhibits Draw Crowds to Medical Museum,”
Washington Post (Feb. 25, 1957): B1.
 “Medical Museum Officials Oppose Shift From City,” Washington Star (Feb. 27, 1957).
 “Board Decides to Keep Medical Museum Here,” Washington Post (Feb. 27, 1957).
 “Hospital yesteryears come alive in the hands of Craftsman Henry Folmer as he fashions an
authentic replica of the original horse-drawn ambulance of Emergency Hospital,” reprint
from Southern Hospitals (July 1957).
 National Library of Medicine News XII (July 1957).
 Robert Crater, “Garfield’s Spine Draws Tourists,” Columbus Citizen (Sept. 8, 1957).
 Robert Crater, “Armed Forces Museum Displays Part of President Garfield Body,” Cleveland
Press (Sept. 11, 1957).
 “AFIP Research,” Pfizer Spectrum 5 (Sept. 15, 1957): 465-67.
 “Women and Medicine,” [exhibit opening featuring Mary E. Walker] Washington Daily News
(Oct. 26, 1957).
 Bess Furman, “Portraits Honor Medical Women: A Painting That Almost Got Scrapped Is
Most Prized at Exhibit Capital,” New York Times (Oct. 27, 1957). [Mary E. Walker painting]
 Ruth Dean, “For First Time: Medical Museum Honors Women,” The Sunday Star (Oct. 27,
1957): D7, D9.
 Dental chair (1887) and operating and examining table (1880) loaned for “The Twig, Junior
Auxiliary of the Alexandria Hospital and Twig Thrift Shop,” Alexandria Gazette (Nov. 7,
1957): 11.
 Bess Furman, “Portraits Honor Medical Women,” Journal of the American Medical Women’s
Association (Dec. 1957): 443-44.

00014: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1958-61
 Helen R. Purtle, “Lincoln Memorabilia in the Medical Museum of the Armed Forces Institute
of Pathology,” reprinted from Bulletin of the History of Medicine 32 (Jan-Feb 1958): 68-74.
 Capt. William M. Silliphant, “Role of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in American
Medicine,” reprinted from the AMA Archives of Surgery 77 (Aug. 1958): 153-61.
 Brig. Gen. Albert G. Love and Col. Eugene L. Hamilton, Tabulating Equipment and Army
Medical Statistics (Washington DC: Dept. of the Army, 1958), Chapter 4: Development and
Description of Electrical Accounting Machines, 36-51.
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 “Medics Tour Unique Medical Museum,” Fort Myer Post (Feb. 27, 1959): 3.
 Helen R. Purtle, “Urologic Instrument Collection in Medical Museum of Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology,” reprinted from The Journal of Urology 81 (May 1959): 702-04.
 John McKelway, “The Rambler Inspects a New Acquisition,” The Evening Star (Nov. 3, 1959).
 “The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,” Civil War Centennial Commission (April 1960): 2.
 Helen R. Purtle, “Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Medical Museum,” U.S. Armed Forces
Medical Journal 11 (May 1960): 579-83.
 Col. Frank M. Townsend, “The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,” USAF Medical Service
Digest XI (July 1960): 2-12.
 “The American Jew in the Civil War,” an exhibit at the Klutznick Exhibit Hall, Washington DC
(April 23-Sept. 4, 1961).
 “Civil War: the bloody seminar,” Roche Medical Image (Summer 1961): 17-20.

00015: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1962
 “AFIP Centennial,” reprinted from the Archives of Ophthalmology 67 (May 1962): 693-94.
 “Foreword: Centennial Anniversary of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,” The
American Journal of Clinical Pathology 38 (July 1962): 1-2.
 Col. Frank M. Townsend, “The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: 1862-1962,” reprinted
from Medical Annals of the District of Columbia 31 (Oct. 1962): 565-69.
 “Pathology Exhibit Dedication,” 100 Years After: Civil War Centennial Commission 5 (Oct.
1962): 4.
 “First Curator’s Portrait to Hang in Old Red Brick,” Service Stripe 18 (November 2, 1962): 1.
 “Pathological Consultants to the World: Celebrating its 100th year, the Armed Forces
Institutes of Pathology has grown from three pieces of bone to 70,000 new specimens every
year,” reprinted from Medical World News (Nov. 9, 1962): 1-4.
 “AFIP Observes Century of Progress: Started as Collecting Station During War Between the
States,” Service Stripe 18 (Nov. 9,, 1962): 3.
 “Old Red Brick Reopened in Ceremonies This Week,” Service Stripe 18 (Nov. 16, 1962): 3.

00016: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1963
 “Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: A Living Memorial to the Civil War Now Serves World
Medicine,” Pfizer Spectrum II (March-April 1963): 36-41.
 Maj. Gen. James P. Cooney, “The Role of the Old Army Medical Museum in the
Development of Pathology,” reprinted from Military Medicine 128 (April 1963): 267-272.
 Col. Frank M. Townsend, “A Century of Pathology: The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,
1862-1962,” reprinted from Military Medicine 128 (April 1963): 273-89.
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 Hugh G. Grady, “The Army Institute of Pathology and the Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology,” reprinted from Military Medicine 128 (April 1963): 290-92.
 Esmond R. Long, “The Army Medical Museum,” reprinted from Military Medicine 128 (May
1963): 367-77.
 Saul Jarcho, “The Influence of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology on Medicine,”
reprinted from Military Medicine 128 (June 1963): 473-82.
 Lt. Col. Saul Jarcho, “A Russian Description of the Army Medical Museum,” Military Medicine
128 (Sept. 1963): 843-45.

00017: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1964
 “AFIP’s Medical Illustrations Service Among Best in Field,” Service Stripe (Feb. 28, 1964): 4.
 “Tomorrow in Washington: Medical Museum Exhibits Appeal to Layman, Doctor,”
Washington Star (Mar. 16, 1964).
 William Grigg, “A Century of Army Pathology,” review of Robert S. Henry, The Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology: Its First Century, in Evening Star (Sept. 3, 1964).
 “AFIP Medical Museum Named National Historic Landmark,” Service Stripe 21 (Jan. 29,
1965): 1.
 Front Cover: “Well—What Have We Here?,” artist Melbourne Brindle, physician observing
Japanese manikin donated to the museum by Billings, Medical Times 93 (March 1965).
 “AFIP’s Medical Museum Officially Designated As National Landmark,” Service Stripe (June
18, 1965): 1,5.
 Keith Reekie, “Replaced by Educational Exhibits: Medical Museum’s ‘Horror Shows’ Gone,”
The Washington Post (Nov. 12, 1965): C1.
 “Medical museum sheds ‘horror show’ image,” Associated Press (Nov. 12, 1965).

00018: Museum Publicity and Media Mentions, 1966
 Leroy F. Aarons, “Famed Art Collection is Promised to U.S.,” The Washington Post (May 12,
1966)A1, A22.
 Herman Schaden, “Site on Mall is Selected for Hirshhorn Art,” The Evening Star (May 12,
1966) A1, A6.
 Herman Schaden, “Art Donor to Stay Nearby: Hirshhorn Gives Away His ‘Children,’” The
Evening Star (May 18, 1966).
 Leroy F. Aarons, “Hirshhorn Gives Art, Hugs Johnson,” The Washington Post (May 18, 1966).
 “House Gets Hirshhorn Museum Bill,” The Evening Star (May 19, 1966).
 “Collections: A Jewel for the Mall,” Time (May 20, 1966): 88-89.
 “Hirshhorn Collection, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Art Gift,” Congressional Record (May 23, 1966).
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