Health Heroes Collection

1920-1937
Laupus Library Manuscript Collection, LL02.69
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0.36 Cubic Feet
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Health Heroes Collection (LL02.69), at The William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
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Booklets from the Health Heroes series.

Biographical/historical information

During the early twentieth century, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company published a series of booklets entitled Health Heroes. The series features biographies of important historic figures in health care. The people featured in this collection are Edward Livingston Trudeau, Louis Pasteur, Edward Jenner, Walter Reed, Florence Nightingale, and Marie Curie; with publication dates ranging from 1920 through 1937.

Scope and arrangement

Booklets from the Health Heroes series published by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

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Custodial History

2017 October 18: 9 booklets. Gift of Winterthur Museum Library.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Winterthur Museum Library.

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

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Language of material

English

Container list
Box 1 Folder 1 Edward Livingston Trudeau, 1920
Box 1 Folder 2 Louis Pasteur, 1925
Box 1 Folder 3 Edward Jenner, 1926
Box 1 Folder 4 Walter Reed, 1926
Box 1 Folder 5 Florence Nightingale, 1928
Box 1 Folder 6 Marie Curie, 1937