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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 975 items) |
Abstract | Joseph Goldberger was a physician, medical researcher, and epidemiologist with the United States Public Health Service, 1899-1929. The collection chiefly consists of personal and professional correspondence of and about Goldberger. Materials document 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. |
Creator | Goldberger, Joseph, 1874-1929. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2010
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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.
Back to TopThe 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.
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Photograph of Bellevue Hospital staff, 1896 |
Extra Oversize Image X-OP-P-1641/1 |
Photograph of Public Health Service staff members, in uniform, in New Orleans, 1903 |
Image P-1641/1 |
Joseph Goldberger, 1910 |
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Joseph Goldberger, 1906An accompanying slip of paper reads, "Picture of Joseph at the time of our marriage Apr. 19, 1906...M.F.G." |
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Death mask of Joseph Goldberger, 1929The photograph is tucked into a folded piece of paper that reads: "Photograph of death mask of Dr. Joseph Goldberger, by H.K. Bush-Brown. The artist thought there was a resemblance between Goldberger's features and those of Dante." |
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Mary Goldberger, circa 1906 |
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New York City apartment building, circa 1920The verso reads: "One of these apts Joseph lived in on the East Side when they first arrived in New York from Giralt, Hungary." |
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New York apartment building, circa 1920Possibly the same building as in P-1641/5 viewed from a different angle. |
Photograph Album PA-1641/1 |
Photograph album, undated |