Archival Resources Related to the Yellow Fever Commission

The following list includes various archival collections, including papers of persons related to the history of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, which may be of interest to researchers.

  • Brief Overview of Collection MC08: Memoirs of Dr. William Groce Harrison, Sr. Housed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
  • Carl Ewald Grunsky Collection. (Unprocessed.) Housed at the California Academy of Sciences. [Grunsky was a  
Civil Engineer and a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission (1904-1905).]
  • The Cuban Heritage Digital Collection. Housed at the University of Miami Libraries. [Includes the Lydia Cabrera Papers.]
  • David B. Henderson Papers. Housed at the University of Iowa Libraries. [Henderson was the United States Speaker of the House, 56th and 57th Congresses.]
  • George M. Kober Papers. Housed at the National Library of Medicine. [Kober was Acting Assistant Surgeon for the U.S. Army from 1874-1886.]
  • George M. Sternberg Papers. Housed at the National Library of Medicine. [Sternberg was a physician, Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, and a member of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission.]
  • Harry H. Laughlin Papers. Housed at Truman State University. [Contains correspondence with Dr. Domingo F. Ramos [D-2-3] and “Monuments to the Memory of the heroes and Martyrs in the Struggle Against Yellow Fever.”]
  • The Henry E. Sigerist Collection. Housed at Johns Hopkins University. [Sigerist was a physician and researcher in the history of medicine.]
  • Henry Rose Carter Papers. Housed at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia. [Carter was a physician and researcher in infectious diseases. He was stationed in Cuba at the same time as the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission and later became Assistant Surgeon General
  • Kean Family Papers. Housed at the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. [Major Jefferson Randolph Kean was chief sanitary officer of Havana and was an alumnus of the University of Virginia Medical School, Class of 1883 and descendent of President Thomas Jefferson. This collection contains letters from Walter Reed along with Kean's personal journal (a record of activities in his life.]
  • Lewis W. Hackett Papers. Housed at the Rockefeller Archive Center. [Hackett was on the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation.]
  • Wickliffe Rose Papers. Housed at the Rockefeller Archive Center. [Rose was Executive Secretary of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission (1910-1915).]
  • The William S. Thayer Collection. Housed at Johns Hopkins University. [Thayer was a researcher in infectious diseases and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.]
  • Records of the Military Government of Cuba. Housed at the National Archives.