E-News @ Your Library: The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project BlogMelissa Cox Norris, Director of Library Communications |
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The correspondence and photographs are part of the Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives. Sabin's wife, Heloisa, donated his papers, medals, and other artifacts to the University of Cincinnati upon his death in 1993. They reside in the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions where they have been organized and preserved with the support of the John Hauck Foundation. The digitizing of the correspondence and photographs began in the summer of 2010 and will be completed in June 2013. The digitized documents and images will be freely available on the Web. In addition, a finding aid is available online at Stephanie Bricking, Albert B. Sabin archivist, is blogging about the interesting things she discovers as she works with the collection. Her blog posts provide insight into Dr. Sabin's life and work. She includes documents from and about Sabin as well as photographs of Sabin throughout his career and travels. You can read The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project Blogs on the UC Libraries blog at www.libraries.uc.edu/liblog/topics/albert-b-sabin-archives/. |
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In 2010, the Libraries received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize the correspondence and photographs of Albert B. Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine and distinguished service professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Children's Hospital Research Foundation from 1939-1969. The primary source documents to be digitized include 35,000 letters totaling 50,000 pages of correspondence between Sabin and political, cultural, social, and scientific leaders around the world. Also included will be 1,000 photographs documenting the events and activities worldwide that were part of Sabin's crusade to eradicate polio.