The "Negro Health Problem" and Public Health,
The Great Depression and the World Wars, 1900-1945

Exhibit Items:

Main Text
Dr. Augustus Nathaniel Lushington (1869-1939) Lynchburg Veterinarian
Bookcase, c. 1892 Dr. Augustus Nathaniel Lushington
Directory of the Class of 1894 Cornell University, 1934
1005 Fifth Street in 1998
Physicians
Dr. Leon M. Braswell (1904-1958) Lynchburg Physician
Record of O.B. deliveries, 1938-1945 Dr. Leon Braswell
P. R. Higginbotham
Dr. William Henry Roberts (b. 1887) Lynchburg Physician
Receipt Signed by Dr. William Henry Roberts, 1935
Dr. G. L. Alfonso Pogue (1888-1956) Bedford Physician
Dr. Thomas J. Fawcett (b. 1877) Lynchburg Physician
Dr. Thomas J. Fawcett's Graduation, 1904
Birth Certificate Signed by Dr. Thomas J. Fawcett, 1925
Dr. Fred L. Lander, Jr. (1898-1941) Lynchburg Physician
Diploma of Dr. Fred L. Lander, Jr., 1924
Shingle of Dr. Fred L. Lander, Jr.
Dr. Kyle M. Pettis (1881-1967) Lynchburg Physician
Dr. Roger William Lomax (b. 1881) Lynchburg Physician
Two of Lynchburg's future doctors Lincoln University, 1923
Central Virginia Doctors, Dentists, and Nurses
Dentists
Objects from the Office of Dr. Hubert Diuguid, c. 1942
Dr. Henry Page Weeden (b. 1889) Lynchburg Dentist
Dr. John Andrew Jackson (1888 - 1957) Lynchburg and Charlottesville Dentist
Dr. Clarissa Wimbush (d. 1986) Lynchburg Dentist
Plaque Awarded to Dr. Clarissa Wimbush, 1966
Instrument Cabinet of Dr. Clarissa Wimbush
Shingle of Dr. Clarissa Wimbush
Dental Hygienist
Cornelia Campbell (b. 1930) Dental Hygienist
Appointment Book with Dentist's Creed, 1946
Dental Floss Bottle, c. 1946
Dental Hygienist's License, 1947 District of Columbia
Dental Technician
Louise Calloway Bondurant (1902-1993) Dental Technician
Other African American dentists
Pharmacists
Harry W. Reid Lynchburg Pharmacist
Medicine Bottle from Reid's Pharmacy
Harry Reid Preparing to Make Deliveries, c. 1940
Diploma, 1933
Insurance
By-laws, Old Dominion Lodge, 1924
Public Health Nursing
Lavlette Grant Smith (1893-1991) Lynchburg Public Health Nurse
Diploma of Lavlette Grant Smith, 1919
Certificate of Appreciation, 1965 Lavlette Grant Smith
Uniform of Lavlette Grant Smith
Caps
Edna Ross Burton (b. 1915) Lynchburg and Amherst County Nurse
Citation for Edna Ross Burton, 1976
Class of 1938, St. Philip School of Nursing
Cap
Annie Hunt Lynchburg Public Health Nurse
Anna L. Nellum Robinson (1900-1995) Lynchburg Public Health Nurse
Postcard, 1990 Anna Nellum Robinson to Dorothy Mabin
Mary Adams (1914-1971) Lynchburg Public Health Nurse
Nurses
Anna W. Byrd Eastman Wheaton (b. 1910) Nurse and Medical Record Librarian
Anna W. Byrd Eastman Wheaton, 1935
Twentieth Reunion of the Class of 1935, 1955 Freedmen's Hospital School of Nursing
Thelma Davis Smith (1925-2000) Hampton and Maryland Nurse
J. P. Gordon
Adelaide Stewart Scott (b. 1921) Lynchburg and Pittsburgh nurse
Cadet Nurses from Central Virginia
M. B. Carter
Frances Cornelia Betts Butler
Other Health Professionals
Elizabeth Nash LTSH Attendant
Health Care 1900-1945
"State Aid" and Segregation, 1936-1956
New City Hospital, 1912
Birth and Mortality Rates in Lynchburg, 1931-1943
Lynchburg Infant Mortality and Deaths Under One Year, 1931-1935
Leading Causes of Death in Lynchburg, 1944
 
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