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  <titleInfo>
    <title>William Crawford Gorgas papers, 1857-1919 (bulk 1904-1913)</title>
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    <namePart>Gorgas, William Crawford</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1854-1920</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, addresses, reports, articles, medical papers, financial records, clippings, printed matter, charts, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Gorgas's work in combating yellow fever in Florida and Latin America, in particular Cuba and Panama.  Includes materials used in preparation of a report on Latin America by the Rockefeller Foundation Yellow Fever Commission.  Also includes extracts of a journal of Confederate officer Josiah Gorgas chronicling the Civil War and Reconstruction and Gorgas family correspondence.  Correspondents include James L. Bevans; James Ten Broeck Bowles; Thomas Barbour; Henry Rose Carter; William M. Doughty; F.A. Ferris; Carlos Juan Finlay; John Guiteras; William W. Keen; C.C. McCulloch, Jr.; S. Weir Mitchell; G.R. Plummer; Claus Karl Schilling; George T. Stevens; and George Miller Sternberg.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
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  <note>Army medical officer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Bevans, James L. (James Lung)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1944</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bowles, James Ten Broeck</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Barbour, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1946</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Carter, Henry Rose</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1852-1925</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Doughty, William M. (William McDowell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1881-1944</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ferris, F. A. (Frank A.)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1918</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Finlay, Carlos Juan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1915</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Guiteras, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1852-1925</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Keen, William W. (William Williams)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1932</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McCulloch, C. C. (Champe Carter)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1928</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1914</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Plummer, G. R. (George R.)</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Schilling, Claus Karl</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1946</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Stevens, George T. (George Thomas)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1921</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Sternberg, George Miller</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1915</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gorgas family</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Confederate States of America.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
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    <topic>Officers</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
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    <topic>Medical care</topic>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
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    <topic>Surgeons</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Rockefeller Foundation.</namePart>
      <namePart>Yellow Fever Commission.</namePart>
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    <topic>Medicine</topic>
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
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    <topic>Medicine</topic>
    <geographic>Florida</geographic>
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    <topic>Medicine</topic>
    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
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    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
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    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
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    <topic>Public health</topic>
    <geographic>Florida</geographic>
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    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
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    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)</topic>
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    <topic>Yellow fever</topic>
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Yellow fever</topic>
    <geographic>Florida</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1877</temporal>
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    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1898</temporal>
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      <namePart>Gorgas, Josiah,</namePart>
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