Henry Howard Kessler papers, 1912-1968.
Collection Number: 3016
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Henry Howard Kessler papers, 1912-1968.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3016
Abstract:
Collection includes personal correspondence with Dr. Kessler's wife, Jessica Winnick
Kessler, 1936-1960, 1942-1945 (bulk); his son Sanford, 1943-1945; and friends and
acquaintances, 1918-1967; business correspondence pertaining to the Kessler Foundation,
1952-1958; scrapbooks and loose clippings; programs; miscellany documenting his travels,
work and awards, 1928-1963; photographs showing his patients and colleagues, ca.1930-1945;
diaries and notebooks, ca. 1947-1949; and copies of a number of Kessler's published
works, 1925-1968.
Creator:
Kessler, Henry H. (Henry Howard), 1896-1978.
Quanitities:
1.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Henry Howard Kessler (Cornell University Class of 1916, M.D. 1919) was an orthopedic
surgeon and a medical administrator. He served the United Nations as international
consultant on rehabilitation of amputees and people with congenital birth defects.
He was a captain in the U.S. Navy, 1941-1945. He founded and directed The Kessler
Institute for Rehabilitation, West Orange, New Jersey. He died in 1978.
Collection includes personal correspondence with Dr. Kessler's wife, Jessica Winnick
Kessler, 1936-1960, 1942-1945 (bulk); his son Sanford, 1943-1945; and friends and
acquaintances, 1918-1967; business correspondence pertaining to the Kessler Foundation,
1952-1958; scrapbooks and loose clippings; programs; miscellany documenting his travels,
work and awards, 1928-1963; photographs showing his patients and colleagues, ca.1930-1945;
diaries and notebooks, ca. 1947-1949; and copies of a number of Kessler's published
works, 1925-1968.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Henry Howard Kessler. Papers, #3016. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Kessler, Jessica Winnick.
Kessler, Sanford.
Kessler Foundation
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation
Subjects:
Surgeons.
Orthopedists.
Physical therapy.
Orthopedics.
Medicine.
Form and Genre Terms:
Diaries.
Photographs.
Programs (documents).
Scrapbooks.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence
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Subseries Ia. Letters to Jessica Winnick Kessler
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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Jan. 15 1936, Sep. 26-27 1938, Aug. 20 - Oct. 15 1942 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1942-10-20-1943-01-17 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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1943-01-25-1943-03-08 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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1943-03-13-1943-04-25 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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1943-05-02-1943-05-31 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
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1943-06-01-1943-06-28 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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1943-07-03-1943-08-12 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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1943-10-19-1943-12-15 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
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1943-12-18-1944-01-14 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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1944-01-17-1944-06-19 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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1944-09-11-1944-12-21 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence
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1944-12-27-1945-04-23 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence
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Apr. 23 1945 - May 1 1945, May 22-24 1950, Jun. 30 1960 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 | Undated | |
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Subseries Ib. Letters Exchanged Between Sanford Kessler and His Father
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence
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1943-01-17-1945-10-20 |
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Subseries Ic. Correspondence Pertaining to the Kessler Foundation
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence
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1952-10-07-1953-05-27 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence
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1953-06-01-1954-05-06 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Correspondence
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1954-08-24-1955-09-29 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Correspondence
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1955-10-18-1956-06-19 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Correspondence
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1956-09-21-1957-08-30 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Correspondence
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1957-10-04-1958-07-28 |
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Subseries Id. Other Correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Correspondence
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1918-12-25-1949-09-03 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Correspondence
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Dec. 9 1953 - Jun. 7 1967, undated |
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Series II. Scrapbooks, Clippings, Programs, Menus, etc.
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Subseries IIA. Loose Papers
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| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Loose Papers
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1943-10-1945-12 |
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Scope and Contents
Clippings, Primarily Mare Island Naval Hospital
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| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Loose Papers
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Scope and Contents
Menus, Hunterian Society Lectures papers,
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Loose Papers
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1945-1962 |
| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Loose Papers
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1942 |
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Scope and Contents
South Pacific; postcards; menus; poem; SPAEF Vol. 1, no. 3; Dec 3 1942 and Aug 16
1942 Medical Officers watch list
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| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Loose Papers
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Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous notes on foreign opinion of the United States; famous humanists; Commencement
Address at Albertus Magnus College by Charles McKerr Parr; passover sermon, "This
is the Pacific."
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Subseries IIb. Scrapbooks
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Scrapbook A: American Physician's Club Trip to Europe - pp. 1-12
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1928 |
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Scope and Contents
Contains letters, programs, tickets, photos, postcards, souvenirs
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Scrapbook A pp. 13-24
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1928 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Scrapbook A pp. 25-37
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1928 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Scrapbook A pp. 38-50
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1928 |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Scrapbook A pp. 51-63
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1928 |
| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Scrapbook B
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1935, 1950-1951 |
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Scope and Contents
Clippings, program, photos, letters
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| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Scrapbook C
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
Photos, menus, letters, Comeback magazine, invitations, Cornell University Medical
School Alumni Bulletin
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| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Scrapbook C
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
Clippings
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| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Scrapbook C
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
Letters, clippings, photos, cards
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| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Scrapbook D
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1912 |
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Scope and Contents
Letters, programs, pertaining to the Budapest Conference
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| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Scrapbook D: Certificate of Enlistment
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1912 |
| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Scrapbook E
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1944-1945 |
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Scope and Contents
Clippings, letters, programs
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| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Scrapbook F
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Scope and Contents
Clippings, a reprint, U.S. Naval Institute proceedings
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| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Scrapbook G: Hunterian Society Program
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1941-1942 |
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Scope and Contents
Blue scrapbook, clippings
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| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Scrapbook H
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1944 |
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Scope and Contents
Blue scrapbook, name on cover, article related to Kessler's receipt of the American
Design Award (Apr 20, 1944)
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Series III. Photographs
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Subseries IIIa. Medical Files
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Traumatic Arteriovenous Fistula
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Scope and Contents
Drawing at operation before incision; man with paralysis of right arm; boy with crippled
arm; crippled arms; 6 yr. old boy; right arm fitted with cineplastic prothesis; stump
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Man with Stump
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Scope and Contents
Same man with prothesis, stump, stress on stump; hand holding box; brochure for cineplastic
artificial arms; man with Kessler; stump
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Artificial Arms
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Scope and Contents
2 photos of man hammering with artificial arms; stump; stump with tattoos, man hammering
with artificial ars; man showing interchangeable tools, man with stump, prothesis
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Crutch Makers
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Scope and Contents
Photo of operation, man painting, sawing; stump, arm showing injuries; prothesis;
cineplastic arm for forearm amputation
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Dorsal Motor to Prothesis
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Scope and Contents
3 application of dorsal motor to prothesis: 2 x-rays of bones, hand, hand mechanism
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Artificial Arm
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Scope and Contents
Arm lifting chain, 2 x-rays of broken arm, 2 stumps
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Margaret Craig
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Flail Elbow
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Scope and Contents
X-ray of flail elbow, 2 artificial arms
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Stump
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Scope and Contents
Stump with arm, 2 artificial arms, 2 stumps
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Loss of Arm
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Scope and Contents
4 stumps, infant with congenital loss of 1 arm; 2 girls with artificial arms, 2 model
boats
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Forearm Prothesis
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Scope and Contents
Boy with cineplastic forearm, 2 men with forearm prothesis
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| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Forearm Prothesis
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Scope and Contents
5 forearm prothesis; stump at shoulder
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| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Arm Prothesis
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Scope and Contents
2 arms with prothesis; 4 stumps
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Stumps (4)
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Scope and Contents
4 stumps, young man, with and without legs
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| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Man With and Without Arms
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| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
X-rays
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Scope and Contents
X-ray of legs, 8 stumps, 3 articifical arms
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| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
X-rays
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Scope and Contents
X-ray of legs, 4 stumps, 4 artificial arms
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Subseries IIIb. Service Years
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| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Valentine Party, Mare Island Hospital (5)
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1945-02-13 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Dr. Kessler
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| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Kessler With Others at Mare Island
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| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Kessler in Shorts (with negative) (2)
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| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Kessler With Others and Portrait of a Child
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1942-1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Photos of Kessler
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1942-1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Kessler
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1942-1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Travel Photos
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Kessler with other Officers, Patients, Mess, Sailors
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Kessler in Formation with Others at Mare Island, with Effigy of Tojo
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Unidentified Captain (3)
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Series IV. Diaries and Notebooks
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| Box 1 | Folder A |
"Italy," "Trip Book"
Env - A |
Undated |
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Scope and Contents
Maroon, Dec 2 - Dec 14 (no year)
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| Box 1 | Folder B |
"My Trip"
Env - B |
1949 |
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Scope and Contents
Black, Aug 6 - Sep 8; Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand
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| Box 1 | Folder C |
England, Germany, France
Env - C |
1947-07-23-1947-09-08 |
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Scope and Contents
Brown leather
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| Box 1 | Folder D |
Trip to Rome
Env - D |
1948-05-09-1948-06-11 |
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Scope and Contents
Green; account of Kessler's trip to Rome to present an exhibit of United States techniques
to the meeting of the International College of Surgeons
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| Box 1 | Folder E |
"Travels"
Env - E |
1949-01-21-1949-07-30 |
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Scope and Contents
Deep purple; around the world
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| Box 1 | Folder F |
Yugoslavia Trip
Env - F |
1951 |
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Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous medical notes
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| Box 1 | Folder G |
Miscellaneous Medical Notes
Env - G |
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| Box 1 | Folder H |
Medical Notes (Aug 12)
Env - H |
Undated |
| Box 1 | Folder I |
Notes
Env - I |
1930-12-23-1930-12-30 |
| Box 1 | Folder J |
Address Book
Env - J |
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Series V. Works by Kessler
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Subseries Va. Published Works
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Bibliography of Articles
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Published Works
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1925-1938 |
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Scope and Contents
"Treatment of Pneumonia with Diathermy" (1925), "The Curative Workshop and the Determination
of the Capacity to Work" (1936), "Traumatic Appendicitis" (1938), "The Office Management
of Low Back Pain" (1932), "Disability Evaluation Following Fracture", "Rehabilitation
of the Amputee"
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
United Nations Technical Assistance Administration on a Mission to Yugoslavia
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1954 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Low Back Pain in Industry
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1955 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
"Report of Rehabilitation Mission to the Philippines"
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1956 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
"Report of Rehabilitation of the Handicapped in the Philippines"
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1956 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Collected Papers
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1937-1951 |
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Subseries Vb. Addresses
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Addresses
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1951-1958 |
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Scope and Contents
"Proceedings: Eastern Connecticut Conference on the Rehabilitation of Injured Workers"
(1951), "Address to the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples" (1951),
"Address given at the Dedication of the New Convalescent Wing of the Michael Reese
Hospital" (Dec. 14, 1957), "Address at the First National Vocational Council in Israel"
(Dec. 8, 1958), Proceedings of the Texas Employers Insurance Association Rehabilitation
Symposium
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Series VI. Works about Kessler
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Works about Kessler
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1952-1959 |
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Scope and Contents
People (Nov. 19, 1952), America (no. 17), United Nations Bulletin (Jan. 15, 1954,
Vol. XVI no.2), United Hospital News (Vol. 1 no. 2, July 1959)
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Works about Kessler
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1944-1953 |
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Scope and Contents
Cornell University Medical College Bulletin (Aug 1944), World Over (Jan 25, 1952),
New Era (Vol. 1 no. 2 Mar. 1952), Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
(Vol. XXXIV no. 10, Oct. 1953)
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Biography of Kessler
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Scope and Contents
Source unknown
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Series VII. Education Mementos
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Commencement Exercises Program, Cornell University
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1916-06-21 |
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Scope and Contents
The DeWitt Clinton High School Yearbook (1912)
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