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1. Charles W. Hack papers, circa 1800-1926

   15 items. 1 container. .2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Army officer and surgeon. Mainly a journal of Hack’s medical service in the United States Army in the Philippines, 1901-1903, two manuscripts, portions of the Koran, in Arabic, and one Arabic-script manuscript in Maranao, a native Philippine language from Mindanao, an excerpt from the epic “Darangen.”

2. Merrill Moore papers, 1904-1979

   131,750 items. 504 containers plus 86 oversize. 234 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Psychiatrist and poet. Diaries, correspondence, notebooks, biographical material, family papers, genealogical records, literary papers, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Moore's career as a psychiatrist and poet.

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3. Edgar Alexander Mearns papers, 1864-1918

   5,850 items. 18 containers plus 3 oversize. 8.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naturalist and U.S. Army surgeon. Correspondence, reports, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material chiefly relating to Mearns's activities as a collector of data on animal and plant life, on his participation in the Smithsonian African Expedition of 1909, and his duties and assignments as an army surgeon.

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4. Anita Newcomb McGee papers, 1688-1932

   3,000 items. 12 containers plus 1 oversize. 5.1 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Anthropologist and physician. Correspondence, diaries, family papers, writings, scientific and medical data, and miscellaneous material pertaining to McGee's studies of communistic societies in the United States such as the Shakers and the Bethel and Oneida communities, to her duties as acting assistant surgeon, U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War; and to the formation of the Women's Anthropological Society of America. Contains family correspondence of McGee's grandfather, Charles A. Hassler, which includes a letter from James Madison, 1832.

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5. William Crawford Gorgas papers, 1857-1919

   12,000 items. 39 containers. 16 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Army medical officer. Correspondence, reports, addresses, articles, financial and miscellaneous records, medical papers, charts, clippings, photographs, and printed material dealing primarily with the fight against yellow fever in Cuba and Panama.

6. Milton McConnell Ronsheim collection : Veterans History Project (U.S.), 1942-1947

   3 photographs.. 261 letters.. 4 creative works.. 5 clippings.. 13 military papers.. -- Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Milton Ronsheim served as an administrative clerk with the 5th Service Command during World War II. Collection includes correspondence, military papers, creative works, and photographs relating to his service.

7. Brett Riggs influenza pandemic archive, 1891-1945

   1,100 items. 3 containers plus 3 oversize. 6.1 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Correspondence, artifacts, clippings, diaries, ephemera, newspapers, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, postcards, printed matter, publications, reports, and other papers relating to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.

8. Edwin Swillinger papers, 1945-2021

   350 items. 1 containers. 0.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States Army medic. Correspondence, photographs, and ephemera primarily relating to Swillinger's service during the Allied occupation of Japan between 1946 and 1948.