| Summary: | This item is from the William Crawford Gorgas Papers and includes the letter from Colonel Edgar Erskine Hume to William Crawford Gorgas' daughter Aileen Wrightson and a black-and-white photograph of a bust of William Crawford Gorgas. It includes correspondence, articles, and other items that document the numerous awards and tributes Gorgas received during his life, collected by his widow, Marie Gorgas for her book, William Crawford Gorgas: his life and work.Gift of Aileen Gorgas Wrightson, 1947 and 1952; Thomas W. Martin, 1952; Jessie Palfrey Leake, Minna Palfrey Tait, Aileen Gorgas Wrightson, Gene Palfrey Ellis, and William Gorgas Palfrey, 1958; Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and National Library of Medicine, 1991; and Dr. William G. Palfrey and Gene Marie Palfrey Ellis, 1993.The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries.
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