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Formal title:: Augustus A. White III (Class of 1957) documents relating to his career as a surgeon during the Vietnam War
Extent:: 0.25 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1966-2015
Abstract:: This collection contains magazine articles and photographs related to the career of Augustus A. White III (Brown, Class of 1957) as an orthopedic surgeon. He is a Vietnam Veteran. He served 2 years as an army surgeon a year of which, August 1966-August 1967, he was stationed at the 85th Evacuation Hospital in the Qui Nhon region of Vietnam. During that year he also volunteered during his off-duty time at the St. Francis Leprosarium run by Catholic nuns in a nearby village where he treated patients fighting leprosy. He went on to have a distinguished career as the first African American to graduate from Stanford Medical School in 1961 and held positions in orthopedic surgery at Yale Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has also been keenly interested in issues of race, bias, and disparity in medical care and education. In 2011 he founded Harvard's Culturally Competent Care Education Program to begin combating the unconscious and conscious biases of health care professionals and educators.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: AMS.1U.2016.002

Wilding (Faith) papers

Formal title:: Faith Wilding papers
Extent:: 2 linear feet
Date range:: 1969-2014
Abstract:: This collection consists of the papers of Faith Wilding, feminist artist, scholar, and contributor to the 1972 landmark exhibition, Womanhouse. The collection documents Wilding's feminist theory scholarship, teaching, writing, and thoughts on feminism and art. Materials include notes, conference material, feminist print material, writings, and audiovisual material, dating form 1969-2019. The collection is arranged alphabetically by record type into one series.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2019.007

Williams (Linda) papers

Formal title:: Linda Williams papers
Extent:: 25 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1945-2020 (1962-2016)
Abstract:: This collection contains the papers of Linda Williams, Professor Emerita in Film & Media and Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley. Her academic interests center on Feminist Theory and "body genres," genres designed to elicit a specific physical reaction. These include pornography, melodrama, and horror. Other areas of focus in both research and teachings include "race" films, Oscar Micheaux, Spike Lee, Surrealist cinema, David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Luis Buñuel, film theory, musicals, and the HBO series "The Wire." Materials in this collection date from approximately 1945 to 2020 and document her academic career through correspondence, conference materials, teaching, writings, and research.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2015.011

Formal title:: Mel B. Yoken collection
Extent:: 84 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1683-2012 (1900-2012)
Abstract:: This collection was assembled over a period of fifty years by Mel B. Yoken. The primary focus is 20th century pieces of correspondence and documents by and related to French, Québécois, British, and American authors, artists, politicians, and public figures. Numerous letters written by significant figures of the 18th and 19th century enhance the historical, literary and political interest of the collection. Notes, typescripts, photographs and personal papers complement the archive.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2011.038

Formal title:: Zine Collections at the John Hay Library
Extent:: 50 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1974-2024
Abstract:: The Zine Collections at the John Hay Library is a compilation of collections of zines acquired by the John Hay Library. Its purpose is to be an access point for research and it is comprised solely of subcollections that have been processed separately. See links in the subcollection inventory for lists of zines. For individual zines collected by the John Hay Library, see the General Zine Collection.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2025.010

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Extent:: 3.2 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1928-1973 1958-1973
Abstract:: The photographic collection encompasses the years of 1958 until 1973 and documents Rhode Island artist Gino Conti's travels in the American southwest and northern Mexico, primarily on American Indian reservations. It consists of over 3,700 photographic prints, negatives and slides, a disbound photo album and calendar pages used to record the locations of his travels. The collection also includes a box of postcards, a letter, newspaper clippings, art exhibition flyers, images of religious art and architecture, a reference book on the Tarahumana signed by Conti and a related ethnographic collection.
Repository:: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Collection call no:: 2013-01-GEC

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