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Archival documents & files

Weekly Reports of Hospitals at Columbia and Beaufort and Daily Reports of the Smallpox Hospital at Charleston — Medical Officer

Date not recorded

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Unbound weekly reports of hospitals at Columbia and Beaufort and daily reports of the smallpox hospital at Charleston, September 1865–May 1866, are arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 3.4.9
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Historical photographs & documents

Weekly Reports of Sick and Wounded Received

Sept. 1865–Feb. 1866

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Cataloged as “Weekly Reports of Sick and Wounded Received”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, Item 3.4.12.1
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Weekly Reports of Sick and Wounded Received — Medical Officer

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Unbound weekly reports of sick and wounded received, September 1865–November 1868, are arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 3.4.12
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Archival documents & files

Weekly Reports of Sick and Wounded Refugees and Freedmen and General — Medical Officer

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The single volume of weekly reports of sick and wounded refugees and freedmen and general summaries of reports, April 1867–November 1868 (84), is arranged by type of record and thereunder chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 3.4.11
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Archival documents & files

Weekly Reports Received of Sick and Wounded — Chief Medical Officer

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Unbound weekly reports received of sick and wounded, December 1866–December 1868, are arranged alphabetically by location of the hospital or dispensary and thereunder chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1904, File 3.2.6
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BIOGRAPHY
Medicine & Health

Welcome Turner Jones

1865–1940

Welcome Turner Jones (November 13, 1865 – January 12, 1940) was an American physician, who founded with three other African-American physicians the first black hospital in Newport News, Virginia. The hospital later became the Whittaker Memorial Hospital.

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Wellington E. Webb Center for Primary Care Provider Directory

2006

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A printed directory for the Wellington E. Webb Center for Primary Care. Both sides have a gradient background that goes white to tan to black on the bottom. Printed on the front of the directory is an illustration of the exterior of the center, as well as…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.46.19
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Architecture

Wendell Jerome Campbell

1927–2008

Wendell Campbell (April 27, 1927 – July 9, 2008) was an African American architect who studied under Mies Van Der Rohe and Ludwig Hilberseimer while attending the Illinois Institute of Technology. Campbell graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts in…

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Science & Inventions

Wendell T. Hill

1952–

Wendell Talbot Hill III (born 1952) is an American physicist and professor at the University of Maryland. His research career has largely focused on the intersection of laser physics and quantum science.

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Science & Inventions

Wendy Okolo

Biography

Wendy A. Okolo is a Nigerian-American aerospace research engineer in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center. She is the first Black woman to obtain a Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from University of Texas at Arlington. She…

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Science & Inventions

Wenonah Bond Logan

1906–1993

Wenonah Bond Logan, also Wenonah Bond, (born December 18, 1906) was an American scholar and sociologist. She attended Atlanta University, Boston University and the New York School of Social Work. It was in New York at the School of Social Work where in…

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BIOGRAPHY
Engineering

Wesley A. Brown

1927–2012

Wesley Anthony Brown (April 3, 1927 – May 22, 2012) was the first African-American graduate of the United States Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, Maryland. He served in the United States Navy from May 2, 1949, until June 30, 1969. He was involved in both…

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Architecture

Wesley Henderson

1951–

Wesley Howard Henderson (born 1951), is an American architect, educator, and historian. He is an assistant professor at the Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science at Tuskegee University, and is a member of the American Institute…

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Clothing - Fashion and Historical

White lab coat worn by Dr. Ben Carson

1984-2012

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This white medical lab coat was worn by Dr. Ben Carson. The coat is single-breasted with full-length straight cut sleeves and a standard collar with a short notched lapel. The coat closes at the center front with five (5) opaque white round plastic…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.73.6
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Medicine & Health

Whitfield Winsey

1847–1919

Whitfield Winsey (September 1847 – July 6, 1919), was the first African American doctor admitted to the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland.

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Science & Inventions

Whitney Battle-Baptiste

Biography

Whitney Battle-Baptiste is an American historical archaeologist of African and Cherokee descent. She is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University. Battle-Baptiste's…

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Medicine & Health

Whittier C. Atkinson

1893–1991

Whittier Cinclair Atkinson (April 23, 1893 – January 2, 1991) was an American general practitioner who founded the Clement Atkinson Memorial Hospital in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1936 and closed in 1978, the hospital was established to meet the…

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Historical photographs & visual records

Wife of carpenter and coffin maker with twins and baby, Ikenne, Nigeria

1975-06-09

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Original text on slide reads, "Wife of carpenter and coffin maker with twins and the new Idowu. Monday afternoon".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-1500
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Science & Invention

Wilfred Reilly

Dates not recorded

Wilfred Reilly is an American academic and writer. He is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Southern Illinois University and a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of…

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Education & Scholarship

Willard Johnson

1935–2023

Willard R. Johnson (November 22, 1935 – October 29, 2023) was an American political scientist and African studies expert. He was a professor emeritus of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Johnson studied the development of…

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Medicine & Health

Willarda V. Edwards

Biography

Willarda V. Edwards is an American physician and lecturer. Edwards became interested in medicine as a child. When Edwards was a teenager, she lost her 15-month-old sister due to sickle cell disease.

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Science & Inventions

Willetta Greene-Johnson

1957–

Willetta Greene-Johnson (born 1957) is a senior lecturer in the physics and chemistry departments at Loyola University Chicago. She was one of the first African-American women to complete a Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics. Greene-Johnson is also a…

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BIOGRAPHY
Education & Scholarship

William A. Massey

1956–

William Alfred Massey is an American mathematician and operations researcher, the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. He is an expert in queueing theory.

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Medicine & Health

William Allen Jones

Biography

William Allen Jones (c. 1831 – 1897) was a Canadian dentist and miner. He was the first practicing dentist in British Columbia under the British Columbia Dental Act.

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