Contains photographs, negatives, slides, and scrapbooks pertaining to Davison's family, education, associates, colleagues, and professional activities. Materials date from 1892 to 1972.
Contains appendices, which include short writings, memorabilia, correspondence, letters of appointment, wills, certificates, photographs, and newspaper clippings used for reference in Davison's personal writings and reminiscences. Materials date from 1892 to 1971.
David C. Sabiston Papers, 1887-2015119.6 Linear Feet (72 cartons, 7 flat boxes, 14 slides boxes, 2 card boxes, 2 map folders, 2 manuscript boxes, 1 cassette tape box) 1 oversized folder, 3 artifacts, and 2 robes.
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Contains the personal and professional papers of David C. Sabiston Jr. (1924-2009), surgeon and chair of the Department of Surgery at Duke University from 1964 to 1994. Types of materials include personal and professional correspondence, memorabilia, scrapbooks, correspondence, clippings, printed materials, DVDs, CDs, floppy disks, VHS cassettes, certificates, research materials, committee minutes, reports, manuscript and illustration materials, reports, departmental lectures, presentations and talks, budgets, evaluations, administrative documents, planning documents, notes, photographs, slides, audiotapes, gowns, hoods, robes, and digital surrogates of plaques and awards. Major correspondents include Del Stickel, Donald Silver, J. Leonard Goldner, James F. Glenn, Will Camp Sealy, Samuel A. Wells Jr., and Kenneth Pickrell. Materials range in date from 1887 to 2015, with the bulk starting in 1920.
Contains photographs, 35mm slides and other visual media of David C. Sabiston Jr., Philip R. Allison, Michael E. DeBakey, John H. Gibbon, William Stewart Halsted, Merel Harmel, Ralph Snyderman, William Anlyan, the Johns Hopkins Surgical Society, the David C. Sabiston Surgical Society, the Society of Clinical Surgery, and the Department of Surgery's Sabiston exhibition that was on display on the 7th floor of the HAFS building from circa 2005 to 2018. Portraits of Sabiston are largely organized by size. Materials date from 1887 to 2010 with a significant amount of the materials undated.
Contains scrapbooks and memorabilia pertaining to the Davison family, Princeton University, Merton College at Oxford University, sporting events, academics, and publications. Scrapbook 1 contains memorabilia from Princeton University, Merton College at Oxford University, holidays, and vacations. Scrapbook 2 contains memorabilia from Merton College at Oxford University, including academic, sports, and social events. Materials date from 1886 to 1964.
Contains the personal and professional papers of Wilburt Cornell Davison (1897-1972), pediatrician, chair of pediatrics, and first dean of Duke University School of Medicine (1927-1960). Types of materials include correspondence, subject files, memorabilia, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, programs, budgets, reports, deeds, poems, manuscript materials, creative writings, genealogical materials, article reprints, diplomas, and certificates and invitations. Oversized diplomas and certificates have been separated from this collection. Major correspondents include George G. Allen, Atala Davison, Jay M. Arena, F. Vernon Altvater, Bessie Baker, William B. Bell, William Preston Few, Wiley D. Forbus, Frederic Moir Hanes, Elizabeth Hanes, Julian Deryl Hart, Sir William Osler, Talmage Peele, Wilder Penfield, Watson S. Rankin, Josiah Trent, and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans. Major groups and associations in the collection include Alpha Omega Alpha, American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, Lincoln Hospital, Rockefeller Foundation, and Society for Pediatric Research. Major subjects in this collection include pediatrics, medical education, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University faculty and students, Duke Hospital, and Private Diagnostic Clinic. Materials date from 1881 to 1972.
Contains letters, reports, photographs, diplomas, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Davison's biography and genealogy. Materials date from 1881 to 1972.