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LeShawndra N. Price is an American psychologist specialized in mental health and health disparities research. She is the director of the office of research training and special programs at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Biography
Lesia L. Crumpton-Young is an American engineer and academic administrator. Served as the 13th president of Texas Southern University from 2021 to 2023. She was previously the provost and chief academic officer of Morgan State University.
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Lester Mackey is an American computer scientist and statistician. He is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research and an adjunct professor at Stanford University. Mackey develops machine learning methods, models, and theory for large-scale learning…
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Letitia Dzirasa (born c. 1981) is an American pediatrician and public health official currently serving as Baltimore City's Deputy Mayor of Equity, Health, and Human Services. She returned to this role in July 2025 after previously serving from May 2023 to…
September 15, 1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn envelope (a) with letter (b) sent to midwife Amanda Carey Carter from a new mother regarding Carter potentially attending a birth at the woman's home. The letter is handwritten in blue ink on both sides of a single sheet of lined white paper. At top…
August 12, 1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn envelope (a) with enclosed letter (b) sent to midwife Amanda Carey Carter from an expectant mother regarding Carter potentially attending a birth at the woman's home. The letter is handwritten in blue ink on a single sheet of white paper, folded to form…
August 28, 1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn envelope (a) with enclosed letter (b) sent to midwife Amanda Carey Carter from an expectant mother regarding Carter potentially attending a birth at the woman's home. The letter is handwritten in blue ink on a single sheet of white paper, folded to form…
August 12, 1964
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA letter from a prospective patient to midwife Amanda Carey Carter regarding an upcoming birth. The letter is handwritten in blue ink on a single sheet of lined white paper, folded to make two pages. The letter is dated at top right [August 12-64] and…
February 17, 1960
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA letter signed by Superintendent of Public Welfare, Carrie H. Bliss, RSW, to Amanda Carter referencing payment of $20.00 for midwife services. Typewritten in black ink on a single sheet of white paper with letterhead reads "BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE /…
April 1, 1983
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA letter from Alice S. Linyear, MD, director of the Virginia Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, to midwife Amanda Carey Carter. The two-page, typewritten letter is on Virginia Department of Health letterhead and is dated April 1, 1983. The letter…
1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Letter to Dorothea H. Scher from Judith Howard, Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology, UCLA, 3/16/70, informing her of photographs of Eliot Elisofon's that they are missing”.
1967
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Letter to Dorothea H. Scher from Ralph Altman, Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology, UCLA, 3/15/67, regarding negatives and contact prints sent to them”.
1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Letter to Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology, UCLA, from Dorothea H. Scher, 1/29/70, regarding missing photographs of Eliot Elisofon's from their collection”.
April 1, 1983
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA letter from Alice S. Linyear, MD, director of the Virginia Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, addressed to Samuel A. Graham, Jr., M.D., director of the Piedmont Health District. The two-page, typewritten letter is on Virginia Department of Health…
1976
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Letter to Sklarek from DL Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning Department of Architecture” (Text).
Apr. 21, 1933
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Letter to the Adjutant General: Inventory & Inspection Report of Property, Co. K 372nd Infantry” (Text).
Apr. 4, 1932-Jun. 13, 1936
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Letters from War Department: Physical Examination of Officers” (Text).
Feb. 1864–June 1865
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound letters received by the medical director, February 1864–June 1865, are arranged alphabetically by initial letter of the surname of the correspondent.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound letters received, August 1866–December 1868, are arranged chronologically. They are partially registered in the register of letters received (54) mentioned above.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound letters received, 1865–68, are arranged alphabetically by initial letter of surname of correspondent and thereunder chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of letters sent and orders issued by the medical director, March 1864–June 1865 (296), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two volumes of letters sent, July 1866–June 1869, 1 (55) and 2 (56), are arranged chronologically. Included in Volume 1 (55), July 1866–May 1867, are copies of endorsements sent and a list of men for whom certificates of disability were forwarded to…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe four volumes of letters sent, August 1865–January 1869, 1 (73), 2 (74), 3 (75), and 4 (76), are arranged chronologically and have name indexes.
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Levi Watkins Jr. (June 13, 1944 – April 11, 2015) was an American heart surgeon and civil rights activist. On February 4, 1980, he and Vivien Thomas were the first to successfully implant an automatic defibrillator in a human patient at Johns Hopkins…
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