IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MS.7974
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Loveland, Dr Forrest: journal
Date(s): 1931-1949
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume and 1 file
Name of creator(s): Loveland | Forrest Leon | b 1885 | American general practitioner
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Dr Forrest Loveland, general practitioner, was born in 1885. He graduated from Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska in 1911, and was licensed to practise in 1912. In 1965 the American Medical Directory listed him as a general practitioner in Topeka, Kansas, with a secondary specialism in occupational medicine.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Journal by Dr Forrest Leon Loveland, general practitioner, Topeka, Kansas, documenting a trip he made to Europe with his wife Helen, 29 Jul 1931-23 Dec 1931. The journal describes the pair's travels through England, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary and, in particular, Austria and Italy. The main focus of the trip was Vienna, Austria, where the Lovelands stayed from 29 Aug to 27 Nov 1931. Immediately on arrival Dr Loveland joined the American Medical Association of Vienna and began attending medical classes at Vienna University, including Dr Hermann Chiari's pathology class. Numerous photographs, postcards, tickets, newscuttings, maps, souvenirs etc. are pasted into the volume, and loose items were inserted between the pages up to 1949.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Original order.
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Physical characteristics:
1 volume: 470mm x 360mm, 100 ff. (of which ff. 63-100 are blank); with 1 file of loose items
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased from Thomas Cullen, New York, 2001.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2008