Alice Catherine Evans papers, 1908-1965.
Collection Number: 2552
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Alice Catherine Evans papers, 1908-1965.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2552
Abstract:
Papers of Alice C. Evans, who graduated from Cornell University in 1909 and served
as a dairy bacteriologist for the United States Department of Agriculture and for
the United States Public Health Service.
Creator:
Evans, Alice Catherine, 1881-1975.
Quanitities:
.7 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Alice C. Evans graduated from Cornell University in 1909 and served as a dairy bacteriologist
for the United States Department of Agriculture and for the United States Public Health
Service.
Collection consists of correspondence, scientific speeches, articles, and reports
by Alice C. Evans and others; original and revision of her memoirs; clippings, photographs,
programs, and official invitations. Also, copies of extracts from Evans' correspondence
with Theobald Smith (1925) concerning their disagreement about the possibility of
human infection through bovine organisms; correspondence pertaining to her participation
in the First and Second International Congresses for Microbiology (1930-36) and the
First through Fourth Inter-American Congresses on Brucellosis (1948-57) and to her
research on brucellosis and other diseases and the problem of human infection through
the milk of animals, conducted during her years as dairy bacteriologist for the USDA
and as a bacteriologist for the U.S. Public Health Service; and letters from Carrie
Chapman Catt, Paul de Kruif, Marie Dressler, Elmer V. McCollum, Veranus A. Moore,
Henry Morgenthau Jr., Bela Schick, Luther Terry, Martha van Rensselaer, Hans Zinsser,
and others in medicine, science, or public life.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Alice Catherine Evans papers, #2552. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947.
De Kruif, Paul, 1890-1971.
Dressler, Marie, 1873-1934.
McCollum, Elmer Verner, 1879-1967
Moore, Veranus A. (Veranus Alva), 1859-1931.
Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967.
Schick, Béla, 1877-1967.
Smith, Theobald, 1859-1934.
Terry, Luther L. (Luther Leonidas), 1911-
Van Rensselaer, Martha, 1864-1932.
Zinsser, Hans, 1878-1940.
International Congress for Microbiology
Inter-American Congresses on Brucellosis
United States. Department of Agriculture
United States. Public Health Service
Subjects:
Women scientists.
Women reformers.
Milk hygiene.
Milk -- Microbiology.
Dairy processing.
Dairying.
Dairy bacteriology.
Cattle -- Diseases.
Bacteriology.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Memoirs
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Box 1 |
"Memoirs" by ACE. ( 1963 ). 70 pp. xerox, bound.
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1963 | |
Box 1 |
"Memoirs" by ACE. ( 1965 , revised and expanded from 1963). 106 pp. xerox, bound.
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1965 | |
Correspondence
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Box 1 |
First International Congress For Microbiology (Paris, July 1930 )
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1930 | |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence pertaining to ACE's appointment as a representative of the Society
of American Bacteriologists at the Paris meeting and to her authority to visit English
bacteriologists at the time of the meeting; a report of "Visits to Six European Laboratories"
by ACE (5 pp. carbon typescript); "The Chronic Type of Brucelliasis," a 2 pp. typescript
marked "discussion at Paris conference"; "Report on European Congresses" by ACE and
Sara E. Branham (14 pp. carbon typescript); pictures, programs, official invitations,
and other items relevant to the Congress. (1930, 41 pcs.).
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Box 1 |
Second International Congress For Microbiology (London, July 1936 )
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1936 | |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the Congress; notes for a paper on brucellosis which ACE
delivered or discussed (2 pp. handwritten on both sides); "Comments on the London
Congress" (33 small pp., handwritten); official invitations, clippings, banquet menu
and guest list, and other relevant items. (1936, 48 pcs.).
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Box 1 |
Inter-American Committee on Brucellosis
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence pertaining to the First Inter-American Congress for the Study of Brucellosis
(Oct.-Nov. 1948, Mexico City); "The Incidence of Human Brucellosis," a paper discussed
by ACE (6 pp. handwritten); correspondence pertaining to the Second Inter-American
Congress for Brucellosis (Nov. 1948, Mendoza, Argentina); notes on the "Origin of
the Inter-American Committee on Brucellosis and its Relation to Other Organizations
for the Study of Brucellosis" (1965, 6 pp. handwritten); report of the President of
the Inter-American Committee for Brucellosis (7 pp. typewritten); and other relevant
issues. ([1946-1948]-1965, 59 pcs.).
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Box 1 |
Third Inter-American Congress on Brucellosis; First Meeting of WHO/FAO Expert Panel
on Brucellosis; Committee on Public Health Aspects of Brucellosis of the National
Research Council
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence pertaining to the above organizations; minutes of meetings of the Committee
on Public Health Aspects of Brucellosis (May 1949 and Sept. 1949); report of the Committee
on Public Health Aspects of Brucellosis to the Agricultural Board, Division of Biology
and Agriculture, National Research Council, Washington, D.C. (Apr. 1950); Address
of Welcome to the Congress by ACE, President of the Inter-American Committee on Brucellosis
(Nov. 6, 1950, 5 pp. carbon typescript); a report of the meeting of the Congress and
proposed resolutions, which it later adopted; a pamphlet, Joint FAO/WHO Expert Panel on Brucellosis, report on the first session (Geneva: WHO, 1951 36 pp.) (1949-1950, 70 pcs.)
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Box 1 |
Fourth Inter-American Congress on Brucellosis (Aug. 1957 , Lima, Peru)
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1957 | |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the meeting; a program of the Congress, including a list
of papers to be given; Address of the President (3 pp. carbon typescript) (1956-1957,
21 pcs.).
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Box 1 |
Chronic Brucellosis
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Scope and Contents
Reprint from Journal of American Medical Women's Association, 16: 12 (Dec. 1961) pp. 942-945, "Chronic Brucellosis: The Unreliability of Diagnostic
Tests" by ACE; correspondence from university medical centers, government offices,
and individuals thanking ACE for the reprint and commenting on brucellosis. (1961-1964,
27 pcs.).
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Box 1 |
ACE, Correspondence,
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1908-1965 | |
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the correspondence pertains to ACE's disposal of books, prints, etc. Included
is a form letter signed by Mary R. Beard, thanking ACE for items she contributed to
the World Center for Women's Archives (Nov. 22, 1939); also a letter from ACE to her
parents (1908) describing the amusements of a group of about 30 women students living
in Alumnae House on Eddy Street. (34 pcs.).
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Box 1 |
ACE, Correspondence,
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1922-1929, 1930-1934 | |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence pertaining to ACE's work and interest in various diseases, especially
brucellosis and others transmitted through animals' milk; a report by ACE on the Women's
Industrial Conference (Jan. 1926, 2 pp. carbon typescript); and other items. (176
pcs. in two folders).
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Box 1 |
ACE, Correspondence,
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1935-1940 | |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence pertaining to research on various diseases, especially chronic brucellosis,
and to human infection through milk consumption; a letter from Carrie Chapman Catt
(Nov. 18, 1940) asking ACE to be present at a meeting honoring women following careers
they could not have followed 50 years earlier; a 6 pp. pamphlet, Women's Centennial Congress, 1840-1940 (held Nov. 26, 1940); and other items. (110 pcs.).
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Box 1 |
ACE, Correspondence,
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1941-1949 | |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence pertaining to ACE's research on brucellosis and other subjects; a letter
from a serviceman who had received a "psychoneurotic" discharge and wished to be cleared
of the stigma, believing that his symptoms were caused by brucellosis; answering letters
from ACE to the above and similar letters from other individuals; and other items.
(43 pcs.).
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Box 1 |
ACE, Correspondence,
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1950-1965 | |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence pertaining to ACE's work on brucellosis; copies of extracts from correspondence
with Theobald Smith (May-Dec. 1925) concerning their disagreement about the possibility
of human infection through bovine organisms; material pertaining to brucellosis (undulant
fever) to Professor E.V. McCollum of Johns Hopkins; and other items. (70 pcs.).
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Photographs
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Box 1 |
Two photographs of ACE, 1934 and 1942 . Also, a photograph of ACE ( 1912 ) is attached
to a letter of May 30, 1956.
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1934, 1942, 1912 | |
Addendum
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Box 2 |
Some correspondence for early 1935 (above) concerns Evans's participation in a "Conference
on Fields of Work for Women," sponsored by the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs,
Mar. 9, 1935. Included is a typed copy of the address she gave there about opportunities
for women in medicine.
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1935 | |
Box 2 |
Publications, 1912-1961 .
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1912-1961 | |
Box 2 |
Advisory Committee report on Foot and Mouth Disease and Studies on Foot and Mouth
Disease
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1974, 1966 |