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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Mary Amanda Dixon Jones papers, 1839-1925 (bulk 1874-1907)</title>
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    <namePart>Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda.</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>2,000</extent>
    <extent>8</extent>
    <extent>3</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, lectures, writings, notes, family papers, legal papers, financial papers,  newspaper clippings, printed material, medical illustrations, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Dixon Jones's career as a physician and surgeon, her legal difficulties, and her research and writings about diseases of the reproductive system.  Subjects include her work as chief medical officer (1882-1884) and gynecologist (1884-1891) at the Woman's Hospital of Brooklyn, criminal lawsuits against Dixon Jones for the deaths of two patients and her lawsuit for libel against the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and the murder of her daughter Mary D. Jones and death of her son Henry D. Jones.  Family papers include correspondence, a patient logbook of her son Charles N. Dixon Jones, also a physician; a travel journal of her daughter Mary when she studied music in Europe in 1884; and a notebook with genealogical material about the Dixon family.   Correspondents include Charles N. Dixon Jones, Henry D. Jones, and Mary D. Jones.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Three books transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.</note>
  <note>Physician.  Born 1828.  Death date uncertain; Dixon Jones is listed as alive in the 1910 census.</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.ms010115">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010115</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda</namePart>
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    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jones, Charles N. Dixon</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jones, Charles N. Dixon</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jones, Henry D</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jones, Henry D</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jones, Mary D</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jones, Mary D</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1893</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dixon family</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Woman's Hospital of Brooklyn.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Brooklyn daily eagle</title>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Generative organs, Female</topic>
    <topic>Diseases</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Gynecology</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Hospitals</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Libel and slander</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Medicine</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Music</topic>
    <topic>Instruction and study</topic>
    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Physicians</topic>
    <topic>Malpractice</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Surgery</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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    <occupation>Physicians</occupation>
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