Mary Maciel not only took great pride in her work as one of Cincinnati’s greatest medical illustrators but also spent her time making fun and interesting Christmas cards each year. Here are a couple I’d like to share with you.
Happy Holidays and best wishes for the new year!
The Daniel Drake Archival Collection: An Introduction
By Hannah Stitzlein
Edited by Laura Laugle
Until now, the Daniel Drake Archival Collection at the Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions had been partially inventoried but all of our “Drakiana” had never been brought together in a cohesive collection. Since beginning my internship at the Winkler Center in October, I have been working on the compilation and organization of the materials and documents and I am coming to a close on the project. By the beginning of next year a finding aid will be made available through OhioLINK so that this collection will be searchable on the web.
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New Finding Aids Now Available from the Winkler Center
The finding aid for the University Hospital Patient and Operating Record Archival Collection is now available at the OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository. The collection contains a wealth of information on the early history of hospitals in the Cincinnati area and their patient demographics.
Also newly finished is the finding aid for the William A. Altemeier Archival Collection. Dr. Altemeier was known throughout his time at UC as an innovative and inspirational teacher. This collection includes materials on his work as a surgeon in Cincinnati, many drafts of his book, reference information on surgical infections, photographs and photographic slides.
The Winkler Center Celebrates National Archives Month!
October is American Archives Month! To celebrate, The Winkler Center presents new finding aids!
An original drawing from the Mary Maciel Archival Collection
Charles Dair Aring Archival Collection: An internationally known neurologist, Dr. Aring began his career at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1919 at the age of 15 when he was hired as an “office boy” by Dean Bachmeyer. He graduated from the College of Medicine in 1929 and became the first resident to train in neuropsychiatry in Cincinnati. During his career, he formed two neurology departments, one at the University of California and the other at the University of Cincinnati where he served as professor and department chairman from 1948 to 1974.
Gunter Grupp Archival Collection: This collection focuses on the history of the University of Cincinnati Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics and its influential staff members from 1946 to 2008. Continue reading
H. J. Heimlich Project: Finding Aid Now Available
Last Friday was an exciting day for us here at the Winkler Center because I finished the EAD encoding for the Henry J. Heimlich Archival Collection. This means that the finding aid, which went live this morning, can now be searched online and that the collection is open to researchers. The finding aid is, as its name would imply, a tool that researchers can use to find what they are looking for. In this case, it is a list of every series, sub-series and folder in the collection. We welcome you to come in and have a look at this valuable addition to our collections!
Dr. H. J. Heimlich Project: Working with Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong’s recent death has brought him and his work back into the spotlight once again. Much attention is rightfully paid to his great accomplishments as an astronaut, especially the Apollo program and his walk on the moon. He has been called an “American Hero” more times than anyone count but despite all of that grandeur, in his own mind Armstrong remained “…a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow”. 1
The HARP Group: Neil Armstrong, George Rieveschl, Henry Heimlich and Edward Patrick.
Photo courtesy of Kevin Grace
A Look Back in Time: the UC Public Relations Collection from 1980-2000
By Mary Kroeger Vuyk
I recently completed an internship at the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions. I was assigned the task of organizing and processing approximately 1500 files from the University of Cincinnati/ University Hospital Public Relations Department dating from around 1980 to 2000. The majority of this collection is photographic in nature but does include a few other items such as news releases, letters, etc.
Dr. Leland Clark in his laboratory
Dr. H. J. Heimlich Project: Steak Surprise
Earlier this year Cincinnati Reds rookie Todd Frazier received much media attention for a heroic save but all of the buzz had really nothing to do with baseball. Frazier was eating at a restaurant in Pittsburgh when another patron began to choke on a piece of steak. Other patrons attempted the Heimlich maneuver unsuccessfully when Frazier stepped in and, with two quick squeezes, dislodged the meat from the man’s throat.
Dr. H. J. Heimlich Project: Rescue on the Top of the World
You may know from previous press releases that in 2011 the Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions received the papers of Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, best known for his development of the Heimlich maneuver. In January of 2012 we began the year long project of processing the collection so that they can be made available to researchers. I am now about five months into the project and have done an initial inventory of approximately 80% of the collection as I’ve rehoused the items in archival folders and boxes. As I’ve gone through the material, more than a few items have caught my interest and I would like to share a few with you here in this blog space.
T. M. Berry Project: Civil Rights Leaders of 1942
Last week was highly productive in the sense that I got through a great deal of material. Unfortunately, much of that material consisted of things like insurance bills from 1975 and blank notebooks with dead flies stuck between the pages (yuck!) In other words, it’s bound for the “weed” pile. There was however, a diamond in the rough – a small collection of 8 x 10 glossy photos, most of which were taken at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles at the 1942 National Convention of the NAACP.
