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- catalog abstract "The collection chronicles Wright's early life; student years at Clark University and Harvard Medical School; internship and later career at the Harlem Hospital; political involvement in the NAACP and other groups and anti-segregationist beliefs; activities in various professional societies; and his medical practice in New York City. The bulk of the material consists of clippings, mostly from black N.Y. newspapers, about blacks in medicine, blacks as professionals, and health care for blacks. Also contains Wright's personal and professional correspondence as well as a limited amount of his wife, Corinne Cooke Wright's correspondence; reprints of writings; and pamphlets, some containing brief histories of black medical societies, concerning political issues. The collection also includes several photographs of Wright, his family, and his attendance at professional events and civic activities.".
- catalog contributor b754995.
- catalog contributor b754996.
- catalog date "1879".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available. (116.8 kb) http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.Count:med00077".
- catalog description "Louis Tompkins Wright papers, 1879, 1898, 1909-1997. H MS c56. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.".
- catalog description "Louis Tompkins Wright, 1891-1952, A.B., 1911, Clark University, Atlanta; M.D., 1915, Harvard; established a general practice in Atlanta in 1916, and after serving in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in France, 1917-1919, had a private surgical practice in New York City from 1919 to 1952. He was the first black appointed to the staff of a New York hospital, the Harlem Hospital in 1919, and later served as surgical director, 1943-1952, and president of the Board of Medical Staff, 1948-1952. Wright was also the first black to hold the position of police surgeon in a major U.S. city (N.Y. City Police Dept., 1929-1952), and among his accomplishments in research, Wright pioneered the use of aureomycin in humans in 1948.".
- catalog description "The collection chronicles Wright's early life; student years at Clark University and Harvard Medical School; internship and later career at the Harlem Hospital; political involvement in the NAACP and other groups and anti-segregationist beliefs; activities in various professional societies; and his medical practice in New York City. The bulk of the material consists of clippings, mostly from black N.Y. newspapers, about blacks in medicine, blacks as professionals, and health care for blacks. Also contains Wright's personal and professional correspondence as well as a limited amount of his wife, Corinne Cooke Wright's correspondence; reprints of writings; and pamphlets, some containing brief histories of black medical societies, concerning political issues. The collection also includes several photographs of Wright, his family, and his attendance at professional events and civic activities.".
- catalog extent "24 boxes.".
- catalog issued "1879".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "African American newspapers New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "Aureomycin.".
- catalog subject "Blacks in medicine.".
- catalog subject "Clark University (Atlanta, Ga.)".
- catalog subject "Harlem Hospital (New York, N.Y.)".
- catalog subject "Harvard Medical School Students.".
- catalog subject "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.".
- catalog subject "Wright, Louis T. (Louis Tompkins), 1891-1952.".
- catalog title "Papers, 1879, 1898, 1909-1997.".
- catalog type "Clippings. ftamc".
- catalog type "Photoprints. ftamc".