Contains the personal and professional papers of Charles W. Shilling (1901-1994), a physician, a leader in the field of undersea and hyperbaric medicine, research, education, and former Captain of the Medical Corps with the United States Navy. This collection contains correspondence, notes, photographs, a scrapbook, a transcript, speeches, awards, addresses, clippings, pamphlets, plaques, certificates, and a mug. Major subjects include the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, diving, hyperbaric oxygenation, United States Atomic Energy Commission, and U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Materials range in date from 1932 to 1994.

Contains the personal and professional papers of Charles W. Shilling, a physician, a leader in the field of undersea and hyperbaric medicine, research, education, and former Captain of the Medical Corps with the United States Navy. Includes work reports, time logs, handwritten notes, diary entries, and brief writings pertaining to the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS formerly known as the Undersea Medical Society), letters to and from Shilling regarding professional society membership and activities, correspondence, diagrams, research in the field of hyperbaric medicine, work in progress, appointments, congratulations, job offers, evaluations of current technologies, writings by Shilling and in cooperation with others, articles and reports concerning Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society projects, other publications by Shilling, reviews, opinions, collaborative efforts with various governmental and private organizations, awards, photographs, speeches, an interview transcript, addresses, appointment notifications, clippings, a scrapbook album, pamphlets, plaques, certificates, photographs, and a mug. Major subjects reflected in this series include the role of research, medical librarianship, naval hospitals, hyperbaric medicine, psychology and psychiatry, biological warfare, and naval vessels. Materials range in date from 1932 to 1994.

Christian James (C. J.) Lambertsen (1917-2011) worked as a professor of pharmacology, director of the Institute for Environmental Medicine, and the founding director of the Environmental Biomedical Stress Data Center in 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine. He designed the Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit (LARU), which was the first widely used, closed-circuit Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA) in the United States. Types of materials include correspondence, reports, photographs, audio material, slides, lab books, lab data, experimental measures and procedures, diagrams, graphs, articles, manuscript drafts, grant proposals, newspaper clippings, and notes. Primary subjects include decompression, oxygenation, diving, decompression sickness, diving physiology, and underwater breathing apparatus. Materials range in date from 1930 to 2004.

This collection contains experiment documentation, research notes, scholarly writing, technical reports, publications, correspondence, and artifacts belonging to Christian James Lambertsen, primarily created during his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania. Primary subjects include decompression, oxygenation, diving, decompression sickness, diving physiology, and underwater breathing apparatus. Documentation from the University of Pennsylvania's Environmental Biomedical Stress Data Center and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society are also included. Numerous photographs, slides, films, and audio recordings are part of the collection, many of which need to be reformatted in order to be used. Materials range in date from 1930 to 2004, the bulk of the papers documenting Lambertsen's experiments are between 1970 and 1995.