COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Collection consists of correspondence, scientific speeches, articles, and reports by Alice C. Evans and others; original and revision of her memoirs; clippings, photographs, programs, and official invitations. Also, copies of extracts from Evans' correspondence with Theobald Smith (1925) concerning their disagreement about the possibility of human infection through bovine organisms; correspondence pertaining to her participation in the First and Second International Congresses for Microbiology (1930-36) and the First through Fourth Inter-American Congresses on Brucellosis (1948-57) and to her research on brucellosis and other diseases and the problem of human infection through the milk of animals, conducted during her years as dairy bacteriologist for the USDA and as a bacteriologist for the U.S. Public Health Service; and letters from Carrie Chapman Catt, Paul de Kruif, Marie Dressler, Elmer V. McCollum, Veranus A. Moore, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Bela Schick, Luther Terry, Martha van Rensselaer, Hans Zinsser, and others in medicine, science, or public life.
Dates
- 1908-1965.
Creator
- Evans, Alice Catherine, 1881-1975. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Alice C. Evans graduated from Cornell University in 1909 and served as a dairy bacteriologist for the United States Department of Agriculture and for the United States Public Health Service.
Extent
.7 cubic feet. (.7 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers of Alice C. Evans, who graduated from Cornell University in 1909 and served as a dairy bacteriologist for the United States Department of Agriculture and for the United States Public Health Service.
Physical Description
Correspondence, scientific speeches, articles, and reports.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, March 2004
- Bacteriology.
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947.
- Cattle -- Diseases.
- Dairy bacteriology.
- Dairy processing.
- Dairying.
- De Kruif, Paul, 1890-1971.
- Dressler, Marie, 1873-1934.
- Inter-American Congresses on Brucellosis
- International Congress for Microbiology
- McCollum, Elmer Verner, 1879-1967
- Milk -- Microbiology.
- Milk hygiene.
- Moore, Veranus A. (Veranus Alva), 1859-1931.
- Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967.
- Schick, Béla, 1877-1967.
- Smith, Theobald, 1859-1934.
- Terry, Luther L. (Luther Leonidas), 1911-
- United States. Department of Agriculture
- United States. Public Health Service
- Van Rensselaer, Martha, 1864-1932.
- Women reformers.
- Women scientists.
- Zinsser, Hans, 1878-1940.
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- March 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu