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The Danov Archive, Victor Fet, Alexander Kogan

Books Published by MU Libraries in MDS

This memorial volume compiles materials about Rostislav Dаnov (1941—1993) of St. Petersburg (Russia), a naturalist, artist, and snake-hunter, who worked for many years in Turkmenistan (West Kopetgagh Mts). The book celebrates Dаnov’s 80th birthday. It includes previously unpublished artwork and scientific illustrations by Dаnov as well as his texts, research papers, various memoirs, biographic information, and unique photographs. The book is intended for everyone who is interested in history of science and conservation in Central Asia and the USSR.

Фет В, Коган А, составители. Дановcкий архив. Библиотека Университета Маршалла, Хантингтон, Западная Виргиния, 2021. 494 с. Этот том содержит материалы о …

Бадхызские Архивы. Том 1, Р. И. Горелова, В. Фет

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Gorelova, RI, Fet V, editors. The Badkhyz Archives, Vol. 1. Huntington, WV: Marshall University Libraries; 2021. 444 p.

This volume compiles memoirs and research information about the unique Badkhyz Natural Reserve, now in Turkmenistan, formerly at the southernmost point of the USSR. Established in 1941, the Reserve—nicknamed a Serengeti of Central Asia— housed many unique and endangered species, with an iconic wild ass, or kulan, preserved only there. The book is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Reserve and the 90th birthday of Yuri Gorelov (1931—2018), an extraordinary naturalist who worked in Badkhyz in 1956—1978. His own documentary stories, …

1981-2021: The Early Development Of The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School Of Medicine And Its Department Of Medicine, Maurice A. Mufson

Internal Medicine

When we arrived in Huntington, the physician shortage was so extreme that we, who had great medical connections, found it difficult to locate physicians who accepted new patients. We invited the first class of medical students, the Class of 1981, who began medical school in January 1978, their spouses, and all faculty and spouses to our home for an evening of fellowship and food (Appendix 1: The First Graduating Class, the Class of 1981). The first class included twenty-four students, and everyone invited fit in our house for the gathering. Within three years, the medical students and staff had grown …

In The Beginning... A Legacy Of Computing At Marshall University, Jack L. Dickinson, Arnold R. Miller Ed.E

Manuscripts

This book provides a brief history of the early computing technology at Marshall University, Huntington, W.Va., in the forty years: 1959-1999. This was before the move to Intel and Windows based servers. After installation of an IBM Accounting Machine in 1959, which arguably does not fit the modern definition of a computer, the first true computer arrived in 1963 and was installed in a room below the Registrar’s office. For the next twenty years several departments ordered their own midrange standalone systems to fit their individual departmental requirements. These represented different platforms from different vendors, and were not connected to …

0789: George J. Hill Collection, 1889-2011, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection includes research materials used by Dr. Hill, pertaining to his research interests in medical, military, and New Jersey history, in addition to cancer and leprosy, Dr. Hill's medical specialties. It also includes copies of articles, reports, and abstracts written about Dr. Hill. Additionally, the collection has an assortment of historical pamphlets about leprosy.

0455: Brigadier General Chuck Yeager Collection, 1923-1987, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of manuscript materials, items, and books belonging to Brigadier General Charles "Chuck" Yeager . Items were created between1923 and 1987.

0642: Current History Club Scrapbook, 1908-1950, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of loose scrapbook pages with clippings, handmade invitations, and a 1923-1924 yearly club report. The clippings focus on the club’s efforts to improve literacy and health conditions of disadvantaged children of Huntington, West Virginia. Areas of note include the Club’s work to fight tuberculosis through yearly drives and educational scholarships prioritizing women.

0616: Chesapeake And Ohio Hospital Association Records, 1897-1979, Marshall University Special Collections

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Corporate hospital established for railroad employees; papers relate to the hospital located in Huntington, West Virginia and include published histories, pamphlets and photographs.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Chesapeake & Ohio Hospital Association Records, 1897-1979 here.

0576: Richard Marks Collection, 1953-2012, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of two series, with Series I containing material related to genealogy and Series II containing professional papers relevant to Richard Marks’ career at the NSA and CIA. The bulk of the collection consists of Mr. Marks' genealogical research on his family, including publications, family trees, forms, and other research tools. Professional papers include a Turkish-American Association exhibit of stamps between 1961-1965, as well as clippings, white papers, pamphlets, and booklets related to foreign policy and intelligence issues primarily about the U.S.S.R., but also including major powers in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

0552: Albert Esposito Papers, 1971-1992, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia ophthalmologist. Copies of correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports and other items related to Dr. Esposito's role in the establishment of the Marshall University School of Medicine.

0536: Hines Family Papers, 1898-1976, Marshall University Special Collections

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Papers of physician Oscar Taylor Hines and family include Hines's letters to his father B. W. Hines and to his mother-in-law Genevieve Winkers of Richmond while Hines was in medical school in Richmond, VA, 1897-1898. Also contains newspaper clippings, photographs, and other letters relating to the family in Wayne County and Huntington, West Virginia. Includes a prescription book from 1932-1934.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Hines Family Papers, 1898-1976 here.

0504: Cabell County Medical Society Records, 1891-1978, Marshall University Special Collections

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The records of the Cabell County Medical Society (CCMS) span the years of 1891 to 1972 and primarily comprise of correspondence relating to various organizational and professional aspects of the society. This includes meeting notes, memoranda, professional journals, pamphlets, constitutions, and by-laws. The collection also contains the Dr. Charles H. Moffat’s (former professor of history at Marshall University) research materials concerning his book "A History of the Cabell County Medical Society in West Virginia, 1890-1985."

0433: Robert Bradley Papers, 1967, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia physician. Papers relate to an early attempt to establish a medical school at Marshall University.

0447: Hallanan Family Papers, 1915-1947, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection includes physician’s notebooks, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to the Hallanan family. The bulk of the collection is four volumes related to Thomas B. Hallanan’s practice as a physician, including a birth records book for the years 1920 and 1921 for births near Barboursville and McComas and three physician’s notebooks tracking accounts with patients and notes about visits. The four photographs in the collection are unidentified. Newspaper clippings relate to the social and political lives of Walter S. Hallanan, Imogene Hallanan, Thomas Hallanan, and Betty Hallanan.

Oral History Interview: Dr. Pat Tuckwiller, Pat Tuckwiller

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Dr. Pat Tuckwiller was born on April 13, 1905, in Morgantown, West Virginia. He received his medical degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929 and began practicing internal medicine in Charleston, West Virginia, on April 1, 1932. Dr. Tuckwiller discusses making house calls in Kanawha County, West Virginia, and focuses on the most common illnesses he treated and the medicines and procedures he used. He also discusses the differences in medical practice from the 1930s to the 1980s. In the audio clip provided, Dr. Tuckwiller discusses the issue of venereal disease in West Virginia and focuses on …

0425: Cabell County, W.Va. Medical Society Records, 1951, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of correspondence between Okey L. Patteson (governor of West Virginia) and Lawrence B. Gang during 1951 regarding the proposed location of West Virginia’s first medical school. Lawrence B. Gang, a leading member of the Cabell County Medical Society, advocated for Huntington and his correspondence features reports and attached supporting his stance. Also included in the collection is a final report entitled, “Report by Okey L. Patteson Concerning the Location of the Medical School for Doctors, Dentists, and Nurses in the State of West Virginia”, with the conclusion of the report being that Morgantown was the most suitable …

0336: Henry Bott Journal, 1825-1908, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of a unique mixed used scrapbook, journal, and commonplace book. The base book is a published volume about school systems in Pennsylvania in 1881. The author, Henry Bott, pasted in ten multi-page reminiscences on the following topics: “School in York County [PA] in Country Schools ¾ of a Century Ago [Circa 1825]”, “Turnpikes in Olden Times [before railroads]”, “The Old Homestead”, “Seven Valley: Among the Graves of the Departed”, “Progress in Church Work”, “When the Writer Saw the Meteors Fall [1833]”, “A Wanderer”, “A Short History of the Borough of Seven Valley”, “Before the Days of Postage …

0273: Frederick Brown Collection, 1818-1926, Marshall University Special Collections

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The materials in this collection consist of volumes collected by Frederick Brown. There appears to be no broad theme, and the collection is eclectic. All contents of the collection will be outlined in the container list; where additional description is needed, notes will be made in this section. Additional description begins in box one:

The Ku Klux Klan photograph has a notation of “Fred D. Schultz, -address redacted- Huntington, WVa” written on it.

The “Forget Me Not Album” was a blank volume published by J.C. Riker and written in by Miss Annie McDougall of Montgomery, New York beginning in 1857. …

0261: Sydney Alexander Henry Letter, 1946, Marshall University Special Collections

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This letter to Sir Edmund Spriggs, dated April 14, 1946, comments on the receipt of Spriggs' 1944 Harveian oration and his interest in occupational medicine. This item was found in found in a copy of Henry's "Cancer of the scrotum in relation to occupation” from 1946.

0239: Arthur Shade Jones Diary And Letter, 1936, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of “Warner’s Calendar of Medical History, 1936, for the Use of the Medical Profession” which features historical medical professional profiles, conversions and medical illustrations, and advertisements for medicines. The diary itself is only sporadically populated with a couple dozen short entries throughout the year. Also present in the collection is a letter of thanks for Shade’s presentation to the WV Federation of Women’s Clubs, Capital District [Charleston, WV] on the work of the Morris Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children, a project of the Capital District Clubs

0189: Charles Anthony Hoffman Papers, 1921-1940, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection is comprised of materials, recording the achievements and honors of Dr. Charles A. Hoffman, M.D. This collection complements Accession 0094, linked in the "comments" section below. It includes personal notes about urological practices by Dr. Hoffman, the manuscript of his book, God, Man, and Medicine, and the fundraising materials used for the Dr. Charles A. Hoffman Endowment.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Dr. Charles A. "Carl" Hoffman Collection, 1921-1940 here.

0208: Thomas H. Barton Biography, 1977, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection is composed of a typescript copy of a portion (pages 74-87) of “Autobiography of Dr. Thomas H. Barton, the self-made physician of Syracuse, Ohio, including a history of the Fourth Regt. West Va. Vol. Inf’y, with an account of Col. Lightburn’s Retreat” published by Charleston, West Virginia Printing Company in 1890. The document does not cover Barton’s personal life, and only discusses his time as a doctor for his regiment in the Civil War. The autobiography discusses military matters primarily but does go into details as to a physician’s life in the camps and treatment of wounds sustained …

0110: Colleen Holliday And Cheryl Fuller Typescript, 1972, Marshall University Special Collections

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Home Remedies, a research paper written for a course at Marshall University, Appalachian Culture.

0094: Charles Anthony (Carl) Hoffman, M.D., Papers, 1946-1975, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection is comprised of materials, recording the achievements and honors of Dr. Charles A. Hoffman, M.D.

Included in the collection are certificates, diplomas, awards, and citations, given to Dr. Hoffman for his outstanding service to the medical profession and to his community. Of interest are two gold medals, presented to Dr. Hoffman for his service as president of both the American Urological Association and the American Medical Association. The collection also includes copies of Dr. Hoffman’s numerous speeches, delivered before various medical, professional and community groups. Most of these were given while he was president of the American Medical …

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection, Marshall University Special Collections

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Tape recordings and transcripts of oral interviews with residents in the West Virginia-Ohio-Kentucky Tri-State region regarding such topics as farming, schools, health care, folk customs, and many others related to life in this Appalachian region.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Marshall University Oral History Collection here.

Salt Industry Of The Kanawha Valley, Lorena Andrews Anderson

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The manufacture of salt became at an early date one of the most important industries in the State of West Virginia. The development of this industry increased the population in various localities and aided in the improvement of transportation. There were, as two authors have pointed out, "salt springs in nearly every county of the state." However the two chief centers of this industry were in the counties of Kanawha and Mason. The remaining salt wells were at Bulltown in Braxton County, on New River in Mercer County, on the Monongahela River in Harrison County, and at the mouth of …