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  <titleInfo>
    <title>American Medical Center for Burma records, 1945-1966 (bulk 1959-1965)</title>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, subject files, administrative and financial records, magazines, clippings, maps, and other records relating chiefly to Namkhan Hospital and the Midwives and Nurses Training School at Namkhan, Burma, run by Dr. Gordon Stifler Seagrave, known as the "Burma surgeon."  Subjects include American foreign policy, Dr. Thomas A. Dooley, Peace Corps (U.S.), and the political situation in Burma.  Correspondents include Rothwell H. Brown, Fanny McConnell Ellison, John Scott Everton, David McKendree Key, Joseph F. Newhall, Ruth Newhall, Barbara Olmanson, Myron Donald Olmanson, Harold L. Oram, R.S. Radvin, Haldor Reinholt, John F. Rich, Howard P. Wilson, Gordon Stifler Seagrave, his wife, Marion Seagrave, and their son, Sterling Seagrave.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Sound recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Organization incorporated in 1946.  Based in New York to support Gordon Stifler Seagrave and the Namkhan Hospital in Burma.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010275">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010275</note>
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      <namePart>Brown, Rothwell H</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dooley, Thomas A. (Thomas Anthony)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1927-1961</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ellison, Fanny McConnell</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Everton, John Scott</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Key, David McKendree</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-1988</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Newhall, Joseph F</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Newhall, Ruth</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Olmanson, Barbara</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Olmanson, Myron Donald</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Oram, Harold L</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1907-1990</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Radvin, R. S</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Reinholt, Haldor</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rich, John F</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Seagrave, Gordon Stifler</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1965</namePart>
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      <namePart>Seagrave, Gordon Stifler</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Seagrave, Marion</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Seagrave, Sterling</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wilson, Howard P</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Midwives and Nurses Training School (Namkhan, Burma)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Namkham Hospital.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Peace Corps (U.S.)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Hospitals</topic>
    <geographic>Burma</geographic>
    <geographic>Namkhan</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Medicine</topic>
    <geographic>Burma</geographic>
    <geographic>Namkhan</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Nurses</topic>
    <geographic>Burma</geographic>
    <geographic>Namkhan</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Burma</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Namkhan (Burma)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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