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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Joseph Goldberger Papers, #1641, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1949

Additional Descriptive Resources

Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2010

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Communicable diseases--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Dengue--Research--History--20th century.
• Epidemiologists--United States--History--20th century.
• Epidemiology--Research--Mexico--History--20th century.
• Epidemiology--Research--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Epidemiology--Research--West Indies--History--20th century.
• Goldberger, Joseph, 1874-1929.
• Goldberger, Mary Farrar.
• Mexico--Social conditions.
• Pellagra--Research--History--20th century.
• Physicians--United States--History--20th century.
• Southern States--Social conditions.
• Typhus fever--Research--History--20th century.
• United States. Public Health Service--History.
• West Indies--Social conditions.
• Yellow fever--Research--History--20th century.

Joseph Goldberger was born in Hungary but immigrated to New York as a child. He was educated there and later practiced medicine in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., before joining the United States Public Health Service in 1899. During his time with the Public Health Service, Goldberger studied various diseases and discovered the cause of and cure for pellagra.

The collection chiefly consists of personal and professional correspondence of and about Joseph Goldberger, physician, medical researcher, and epidemiologist with the United States Public Health Service, 1899-1929, concerning his field work and research in connection with pellagra, typhus, dengue, yellow fever, and other epidemic diseases throughout the southern United States, Mexico, and the West Indies. Included are letters from Goldberger to his wife, Mary Farrar Goldberger of New Orleans, her papers after his death concerning his biography, and two scrapbooks of clippings and photographs.

• Oversize paper (OP-1641/1)
• Oversize volume (SV-1641/2)
• Extra-oversize images (X-OP-P-1641/1-2)
• Images (P-1641/1-6)
• Photograph album (PA-1641/1)
• Microfilm (R-1)