Johnson Collection finding aid

Johnson Collection

 

U.S. Navy BUMED Office of Medical History

 

Date of Records: 1898 - 1959

 

Size: Approx. 3 linear feet (7 boxes)

 

Biographical Note:  TBD

 

Scope/Series Description:  Rear Admiral Lucius W. Johnson (MC) had a strong interest in medical history and was an authority on hospital ships during the 1940s. He also was interested in the law of the sea. The Johnson Collection consists of various documents, photographs and three-dimensional objects relating to U.S. Naval Hospitals, Hospital ships, Naval medicine and disease spanning World Wars 1 and 2. 

 

BOX LIST

 

Box 1:

 

1.         Typescript, "History of U.S. Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y."

            Four photographs of the hospital including first ambulance.

2.         U.S. Navy From 1775 To 1853 book.

3.         Bound set of All Hands newsletters from 1944-1946 in leather album entitled "The Stethoscoop & All Hands." News Paper of U.S. Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y. Presented by Harry Gernler. 15 February 1958. The Fifteenth Anniversary of the Commissioning of the U.S. Naval Hospital, St. Albans, Long Island, New York.

4.         Reprints and typescripts on The Hague and Geneva Conventions including

Revision of the Hague Convention of 1907 concerning the adaptation to warfare at sea of the Principles of the Geneva Convention.

5.         Object: Civilian Employee Identification Badge, U.S. Naval Hospital,  

Brooklyn, NY in wooden box, circa 1918. 

 

Box 2:

 

1.         Three portfolios containing reprints, typescripts and correspondence relating to the history of U.S. Navy hospital ships.                                     

2.         Five portfolios containing reprints, typescripts and correspondence relating to the history of U.S. Navy hospital ships. 

3.         Bound book of reprints on various medical topics written by Lucius Johnson.

4.         USS Relief.  One reprint, typescript and design plan relating to a fleet hospital ship.

 

Box 3:

 

1.         World War 1 German attacks on hospital ships.  One reprint and typescript regarding the German misuse of British hospital ships.  Also contains a pilot chart map of the Atlantic Ocean.

2.         Hospital ship photographs.  Photographs, one reprint and notes regarding various hospital ships such as USS Red Rover, USS Mercy, USS Relief and USS Solace.  Also contains photographs of Japanese, Russian and British hospital ships.

3.         Hospital ships reprints and typescripts.  Includes information on hospital ships, USS Main, USS Solace and USS Relief.

4.         USS Relief photographs and negatives including indoor amenities.

5.         Fleet hospital ships - reprints, typescripts and correspondence.

6.         USS Relief photographs. 

 

Box 4:

 

1.         Yellow Fever.  Reprints and typescripts regarding the discovery,

            epidemiology and vaccination of Yellow Fever.   

2.         Yellow Fever.  Reprints and typescripts regarding the discovery,

            epidemiology and vaccination of Yellow Fever.   

3.         Collection of typescripts regarding Yellow Fever on ships of Union

            Navy Civil War period.

 

 

Box 5:

 

1.         Navy historical papers (1898 – 1903).  Contains correspondence and examination reports of John Milton Kerr (HS), U.S.R.S. Franklin; Louis Hildebrandt (HC), U.S.R.S. Vermont; William J. Williams (HC), U.S.S. Detroit.

2.         Portrait of Dr. Richmond C. Holcomb (Captain, Medical Corps).

3.         Portrait of Dr. Ralph McDowell (Captain, Medical Corps).  Includes obituary.

4.         Naval Hospital newsletters (1958 – 1959).

5.         Photographs of students of first graduating class, Hospital Corps School, Great Lakes and Newport.

 

Box 6:

 

1.         Reprints, typescripts and correspondence regarding scurvy and other

            vitamin deficiency diseases.

2.         Leprosy - contains Kalaupapa, a collection of articles on the leprosarium on Molokai, Hawaii, written by Ernie Pyle, 1937 - 1938.

3.         Object: Complete standard Navy package of "Human Serum Albumin," earliest version.

 

 

Box 7:

 

1.         Small box of photographs of U.S. Naval Mobile Base Hospital, No. 1, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  November 1940.

2.         Small box of photographs of U.S. Naval Base Hospital, No. 6, Base Ebon, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Island.  1942 – 1943.

3.         a. One map and two blueprints of Lion Naval Hospital at Espirito Santo Island, San Hebrides, 1943.

b. One map of Naval Reservation in San Diego, CA, 1944.

4.         Notebook which contains reprints, typescript and handwritten notes on medical care.

 

 

Johanna Medlin, 2/2012