http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8b28279 No online items Los Angeles County Medical Association Collection of Prints and Ephemera priLACMA Charla DelaCuadra The Huntington Library October 2019 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Note Finding aid last updated on October 17, 2019. Los Angeles County Medical priLACMA 1 Association Collection of Prints and Ephemera priLACMA Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: The Huntington LibraryPrints and Ephemera Title: Los Angeles County Medical Association collection of prints and ephemera Identifier/Call Number: priLACMA Physical Description: 5.25 Linear Feet(7 boxes) Date (inclusive): 1644-1951 Abstract: The Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) collection of prints and ephemera contains over 200 printed items related to the medical profession, including satire, medical curiosities, significant figures in the history of medicine, architectural views of hospitals, and the early years of LACMA itself. Many of the prints are engravings, some are lithographs, and a small selection are reproductions printed during a later period. The collection also includes personal correspondence, medical certificates and photographs of members of LACMA. The materials date from 1644 to 1946, although the bulk of the material dates from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. The collection covers topics including medicine, health, pharmaceuticals, patent medicines, quacks and quackery spanning over five centuries, as well as social perspectives on both the practices and practitioners in these fields. Language of Material: Materials are predominantly in English, but also French and Latin. Conditions Governing Access Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services. Conditions Governing Use The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Preferred Citation [Identification of item]. Los Angeles County Medical Association collection of prints and ephemera, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Immediate Source of Acquisition On long-term loan from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992. Biographical / Historical The Los Angeles County Medical Association was founded on January 31, 1871 by a group of 7 physicians, including Dr. Levi Dorr, Dr. William Edgar, Dr. John Griffin, Dr. Henry Orme, Dr. T. H. Rose, and Dr. Joseph Widney. Over the remainder of the 19th century the group contributed to the founding of several medical institutions in Southern California, including the first hospitals and clinics in Los Angeles, and in 1885 the medical school at the University of Southern California, with Joseph Widney serving as dean. In 1891, Joseph Widney would become president of USC while remaining dean of the medical school. In addition to curing disease and caring for patients, the organization today emphasizes its commitment to social advocacy for physicians by battling escalating healthcare costs, intervening in malpractice lawsuits, and defending the autonomy of physicians. Scope and Contents The Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) collection of prints and ephemera is a collection of prints and ephemera collected by LACMA. It contains over 200 printed items related to the medical profession, including satirical prints, medical curiosities, significant figures in the history of medicine, architectural views of hospitals, and the early years of LACMA itself. Many of the prints are engravings, some are lithographs, and a small selection are reproductions printed during a later period. The collection also includes personal correspondence, medical certificates and photographs of members of LACMA. The materials date from 1644 to 1946, although the bulk of the material dates from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. Noted artists from the collection include British caricaturists Isaac Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson, French engraver Pierre Roch Vigneron, German portrait artist Adolf Eckstein, and French anatomist, painter, and printmaker Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty. Materials are arranged by genre or item type, and prints are loosely grouped topically: British caricatures, medical curiosities, portraits, architectural prints, and general medical prints. Prints are described at the item-level, with artists, printers, and publishers indexed by name when available. Manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera are described at the folder level and include a variety of materials, including trade cards, medical advertisements, booklets, leaflets, periodicals, and printed billheads and letterheads (with and without manuscript text). Notable items include a series of obituaries (from approximately 1938) concerning the death of Dr. Joseph Pomeroy Widney, co-founder and second president of the Los Angeles County Medical priLACMA 2 Association Collection of Prints and Ephemera priLACMA University of Southern California (Box 4 (3)); a 1789 manuscript import certificate regarding surgical instruments imported from London for the Pennsylvania Hospital (Box 4(4)); and an 1880 photo business card (printed in both English and Spanish) for physician and surgeon Dr. Tom She Ben, a Chinese doctor who practiced medicine in late 19th-century Los Angeles (Box 4(6)). A scrapbook assembled in approximately 1920 by members of LACMA contains print and manuscript material related to "Doctors and Specialists," as well as a specimen of human hair. The collection offers information regarding medicine, health, pharmaceuticals, patent medicines, quacks and quackery spanning over five centuries, as well as social perspectives on both the practices and practitioners in these fields. Also of particular interest are the medical curiosities prints. The images document the history of medical practitioners, methods, and materials in Britain and the United States as well as ailments and illnesses common during this period. Several items also help document the professionalization of medicine in Southern California. As graphic materials, the collection highlights developing techniques and trends in printmaking while documenting the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process. Appraisal During processing, a small amount of widely published mid- to late-20th century booklets and clippings were deemed out of scope and deaccessioned by the Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. • Jay T. Last collection of medicine prints and ephemera, priJLC_MED. • William H. Helfand collection, priHEL. • Collection forms part of the Los Angeles County Medical Association Collection. Processing Information In August 2019, Erin Severson, an intern through the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship program, identified and described the prints in Series I as well as sorted materials in Series II under the supervision of Charla DelaCuadra. In September 2019, Charla DelaCuadra completed processing and created the finding aid. Arrangement The collection is arranged in the following series and subseries: Series I. Prints • Subseries A. Architecture • Subseries B. British caricatures • Subseries C. Curiosities • Subseries D. General medical • Subseries E. Portraits • Subseries F. Other Series II. Manuscripts and ephemera • Subseries A. Certificates • Subseries B. General ephemera • Subseries C. Letters and receipts • Subseries D. Scrapbook Series III. Photographs Subjects and Indexing Terms Advertising -- Drugs Advertising -- Medicine Medicine Physicians -- Pictorial works Sick Certificates Lithographs Photographs Ephemera Printed ephemera Engravings Los Angeles County Medical priLACMA 3 Association Collection of Prints and Ephemera priLACMA Intaglio prints Portraits Prints Relief prints Architecture -- Pictorial works Scrapbooks Angerer, V. Blechinger, Jacob, active approximately 1880 Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845 Bollinger, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1777-1825 Brödel, Max, 1870-1941 Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893 Cooper, Robert, 1777-1857 Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811? Dähling, Heinrich Anton, 1773-1850 Delpech, François Séraphin, 1778-1825 Eckstein, Adolf Engelmann, G. (Godefroy), 1788-1839 Folkema, Anna, 1695-1768 Gautier Dagoty, 1717-1785 Grégoire et Deneux Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810 Harding, Chester, 1866-1936 Haughton, Matthew, (Engraver) Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780 Justyne, Percy William, 1812-1883 Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711 Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 Lowndes, Francis Maurin, Nicolas-Eustache, 1799-1850 Nilson, Johann Esaias, 1721-1788 Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832 Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792 Ribera, Jusepe de, 1591-1652 Riggs, Robert, 1896-1970 Roth, Ernest David, 1879-1964 Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 Sand, Maurice, 1823-1889 Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 Stoufs, Jos Vigneron, Pierre Roch, 1789-1872 Wandelaar, Jan, 1690 or 1692-1759 Woodward, George Moutard, approximately 1760-1809 Bluck, John, (Printmaker) Delpech, François Séraphin, 1778-1825 Stadler, Joseph Constantine Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793 Los Angeles County Medical priLACMA 4 Association Collection of Prints and Ephemera priLACMA Bowles, Thomas, -1721 Fores, S. W. Hogg, Alexander, active 1778-1819 Holland, William, active 1782-1817 Hooper, S. (Samuel)