Inventory of the Joseph Goldberger Papers, 1891-1949

Collection Number 1641


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
Back to Top

Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Goldberger, Joseph, 1874-1929.
Title
Joseph Goldberger Papers, 1891-1949.
Call Number
1641
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 975 items (1.5 linear feet).
Abstract
Personal and professional correspondence of and about 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, and with 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.


Back to Top

Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1949
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Joseph Goldberger Papers, #1641, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Back to Top

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

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--20th century.
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.
Back to Top

Collection Overview

Personal and professional correspondence of and about 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, and with 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.