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Archives at Cornell

Surgeons.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Burt Green Wilder papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-26-95
Abstract Diaries; notes and charts pertaining to family genealogy; clippings concerning vivisection; correspondence, photographs, and printed material pertaining to spiders, phrenology, hygiene and education, writing music, Nantucket Island, the Field family, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., temperance, natural history, Wilder's career as a medical cadet and military surgeon during the Civil War; activities of members of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry both...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Gustav Edward Kappler papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7041
Abstract

Collection of color slides, tape recordings and transcripts describing the vascular surgeon's experiences during the Vietnam War.

Dates: 1951-2014.

Henry Bruner Sutton reminiscences

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3254
Scope and content

Collection consists of taped interviews with Dr. Henry Bruner Sutton concerning his life and career in medicine.

Dates: 1972.

Henry Howard Kessler papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3016
Abstract Collection includes personal correspondence with Dr. Kessler's wife, Jessica Winnick Kessler, 1936-1960, 1942-1945 (bulk); his son Sanford, 1943-1945; and friends and acquaintances, 1918-1967; business correspondence pertaining to the Kessler Foundation, 1952-1958; scrapbooks and loose clippings; programs; miscellany documenting his travels, work and awards, 1928-1963; photographs showing his patients and colleagues, ca.1930-1945; diaries and notebooks, ca. 1947-1949; and copies of a number...
Dates: 1912-1968.

Lewis Post collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065255360]
Identifier: 6310
Scope and content

Items collected by Dr. Post deriving from his medical volunteership in the Civil War, include a diary kept for 1862 describing cases, soldiers, and events; also a medical surgeon's instrument kit, pieces of shrapnel, a piece of hard tack, photographs of Post and his parents, the Soldier's Pocket Book of inspirational writing, mess kit cutlery, and correspondence; some items include annotated notes; also, ephemeral items such as an awl and twine, a bar of soap in a tin box, and two cigars.

Dates: 1862-1889.

Roland Leonard Maier papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2886
Scope and content Includes correspondence from patients and their families, from the New York State Medical Board, and from various hospitals; letters to his wife from friends and patients after his death on July 22, 1968; certificates, programs, and other mementos concerning academic and extra-curricular activities during his Cornell years (1919-1923); and diplomas through 1926. Also, several articles on surgery prepared for publication by Dr. Maier, one reel of movie film concerning surgery, and family...
Dates: 1922-1968.