Title: Thomas Francis Papers Creator: Francis, Thomas, 1900- Inclusive dates: 1917-1975 Bulk dates: 1941-1969 Extent: 66 linear feet Extent: 2 oversize folders Abstract:
The Thomas Francis Jr. collections consists of the personal and professional papers of one of the developers of the influenza and poliomyelitis vaccinations. Francis taught epidemiology at the School of Public Health and medical school from 1941 to 1969 and greatly influenced the direction of research in his field.
Call number: 851285 Aa 2 Language: The materials are in English. Repository: Bentley Historical Library
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48109-2113 Phone:
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Finding aid prepared by: Michigan Historical Collections Staff (1970 accession), Matthew T. Schaefer, November 1989, Thomas E. Powers (1993 reprocessing)
Access and Use
Acquisition Information:
The papers of Thomas Francis, Jr. (Donor No. 4869) came to the library in two accessions. The major corpus of papers came from Francis' office in the U-M School of Public Health in 1970. A second smaller accession was received from the Francis family in 1989.
Access Restrictions:
The collection is open to research except for patient records in boxes 23-24.
It is the policy of the library that records containing categories of personally identifiable information will be restricted in order to protect individual privacy. One such category is Client/Patient records which are restricted for 100 years from the date of creation. Boxes 23 and 24 of the Thomas Francis papers contain such Client/Patient material. Created in 1955, these material will be closed until 2055.
Researchers who wish to consult these records must apply to the University of Michigan Medical School Institutional Review Board (IRBMED) for permission. The IRBMED will determine any specific provisions for access to these records. The Bentley Library does not allow any duplication of these files.
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Box 24 of the Thomas Francis collection also includes microfilm of the Field Trial registration schedules. These schedules which are arranged by state, then by school and class, lists the names of the students participating in the tests. These files are also closed with the exception that individuals who participated in the test may request copies of that schedule page containing their name.
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Categories of Restricted Records
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Copyright:
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Preferred Citation:
item, folder title, box no., Thomas Francis Jr. Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Arrangement
Summary Contents List
General Correspondence, 1933-1969 - [Boxes 1-14]
Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center, 1953-1957 - [Boxes 14-24]
Thomas Francis, Jr., 1900-1969, professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan, 1941-1969, was best known for his work in the development of the influenza and poliomyelitis vaccinations. Educated at Allegheny College and Yale Medical School, Francis' work centered around the study of the causes of infectious disease, especially pneumonia, influenza, and poliomyelitis, and the development of serum treatments for these diseases.
The Twentieth Century witnessed a revolution in the manner in which scientific research was accomplished. The solitary figure in an underequipped laboratory gradually gave way to the research team comprised of specialists, established to solve some particular scientific problem, and funded with grants from foundations or agencies of the government. By mid-century, individual discoveries were still being made, but more common was cooperative research, where scientists freely exchanged information and built upon the work of their peers. During the period of Thomas Francis, Jr.'s greatest work, there was now a sense that common life-threatening problems required an all-out team effort and that claims for the discovery were less important than the fact that discovery was made. Leading the way in changing the way epidemiological research was performed was Thomas Francis, Jr.
Thomas Francis, Jr. was born July 15, 1900 in Gas City, Indiana, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Cadogan) Francis. He graduated with a B.S. from Allegheny College in 1921, then received his M.D. from Yale Medical School in 1925. After completing his residency at Yale, he went to the Rockefeller Institute Hospital where he worked in the Clinical Pneumonia Service under Rufus Cole and O.T. Avery. In 1936, he joined the staff of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation where he established study laboratories to work on the etiology and epidemiology of influenza. In 1938, he went to New York University College of Medicine as professor and chairman of the department of bacteriology.
In 1941, Francis came to the University of Michigan where he served as professor and chairman of the department of epidemiology in the newly established School of Public Health and professor of epidemiology in the Medical School. In 1947, he was appointed Henry Sewell Professor of Epidemiology. Francis remained at the University of Michigan until his death on October 1, 1969.
Francis' career centered around the study of the causes of infectious disease, especially pneumonia, influenza, and poliomyelitis, and the development of serum treatments for these scourges. While at the Rockefeller Foundation, Francis in his research on pneumonia created what he termed a "revolution in immunologic theory" when he demonstrated that antigens that produce antibodies were derived from polysaccharides of the pneumoccus. Prior to then, the accepted belief was that only proteins could function as antigens.
In 1934, Francis isolated the human influenza virus confirming the work of Smith, Andrewes and Laidlaw in England. He subsequently was able to establish the virus in mice and tissue culture. In 1940, he identified and was able to isolate influenza virus, Type B. The importance of his research was widely recognized. In 1941, he was appointed Director of the Commission on Influenza of the Army Epidemiological Board (its name was later changed to the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board). Here he established "listening posts" for the detection of influenza and conducted studies giving evidence that vaccination is effective against the epidemic strains of influenza. First in 1943, he developed a polyvalent vaccine that proved to be highly effective against influenza A in military personnel. Then in 1945, he demonstrated the effectiveness of vaccination against influenza B.
Throughout the 1940s, Francis and his colleagues undertook numerous studies pertaining to the epidemiology and immunology of poliomyelitis. The purpose of this work was to determine the virus' mode of entrance into a community and its spread thereafter. In 1954, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis selected Francis to head up the Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center at the University of Michigan and to test the potency and effectiveness of the inactivated poliommyelitis vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. In what was until then the largest test of its kind, testing 1,800,000 children in forty-four states, Francis demonstrated the vaccine to be safe, potent and effective. On April 12, 1955, with Jonas Salk and Basil O'Connor of the National Foundation by his side, Francis announced to the world that a vaccine for paralytic polio had been found.
Francis was the author of numerous articles and a book on viral and Rickettsial diseases. He was additionally the recipient of various professional awards. For most of his career Francis was generous with his time, serving on the boards of private research organizations, professional organizations, and national and international governmental committees and institutes. A partial listing only includes the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the National Academy of Science, the Atomic Bomb Casualty Committee, the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, and the Vaccine Development Committee.
Francis was a significant figure in the development and testing of vaccines to control the spread of two of the twentieth century's most devastating epidemical diseases - influenza and poliomyelitis. Interested in both theoretical and applied studies, Francis devoted his life to understanding the mechanisms of viral infections, and the development of means of resistance and prevention
Collection Scope and Content Note
Important certainly for the study of influenza and poliomyelitis research, the Francis papers also document changes in the way scientific research, particularly medical research, was managed. In his correspondence files, the records from his work in combating influenza and poliomyelitis, and his participation in various professional societies, the researcher will find Francis interacting as a member of a scientific community, working with others, soliciting and exchanging views, and administering, when needed, vast programs of testing.
The Thomas Francis, Jr. papers have been arranged into seven series: General; Correspondence; Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center; Organizations; University of Michigan; Speeches, Articles, etc.; Topical Files; and Personal/Biographical. Specific topics covered in the collection are mentioned in the descriptions of individual series. In sum, the collection documents more thoroughly Francis' work since coming to the University of Michigan in 1941. Francis' fame rests upon his research and his heading-up of influenza and poliomyelitis testing programs. For some topics, use of the Francis papers will require of the researcher at least a basic level of knowledge of epidemiology or disease control. Other subjects, such as the administration of research projects and the ways in which information is transmitted within the scientific community are less specialized and capable of being understood by the informed layperson.
Parts of the Francis papers have not yet been completely processed. Most of these subseries pertain to Francis' organizational commitments and to his membership on various boards and commissions. Types of records in these unprocessed subseries consist of minutes of meetings and procedural records. These unprocessed records are indicated on the finding aid along with the bulk size of the subseries.
Subject Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the finding aid database and catalog of The Bentley Historical Library/University of Michigan. Researchers desiring additional information about related topics should search the catalog using these headings.
Epidemics.
Epidemiology.
Influenza.
Medicine -- Michigan.
Poliomyelitis.
Poliomyelitis vaccine.
Physicians -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Public health -- United States.
Awards.
Photographs.
Andrewes, C. H. (Christopher Howard)
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission.
Francis, Thomas, 1900-
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
O'Connor, Basil, 1892-1972.
Salk, Jonas, 1914-1995.
United States. Armed Forces Epidemiological Board.
United States. Commission on Influenza.
University of Michigan -- Faculty.
University of Michigan. Medical School.
University of Michigan. Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center.
University of Michigan. School of Public Health.
Francis, Thomas, 1900-
Contents List
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Container / Location
Title
General Correspondence 1933-1969 [series]
(13.5 linear feet)
General Correspondence, 1933-1969 (13.5 linear feet). This series consists of eight dated subseries arranged alphabetically. The dates of the subseries vary in length and do not always correspond to either an academic or calendar year. The dating of the subseries are also not rigid as occasional letters from either an earlier or later subseries might be found. The arrangement of the files is alphabetical usually by an individual's name but sometimes by his/her organizational affiliation. Correspondents consist mostly of Francis' professional colleagues, students, members of the scientific community in general, and lay people who recognized Francis for his many contributions. Topics might be highly scientific or just pertaining to publications, conference meetings, or "keeping in touch" communications with his academic colleagues.
1933-June 1941 [subseries]
Box 1
A-R; include files for
Box 1
American Museum of Health
Box 1
Andrewes, C.H
Box 1
Baum, H. H.L
Box 1
Beck, M. Dorothy
Box 1
Calco Chemical Company
Box 1
Duncan, Charles Henry
Box 1
Fan mail
Francis, Thomas
Box 1
Personal
(with family)
Box 1
Concerning publications
Box 1
Fremont-Smith, Frank
Box 1
Hare, Ronald
Box 1
Influenza virus
(correspondence concerning)
Box 1
Jones, T. Duckett
Box 1
Kerr, William J
Box 1
Kuttner, Ann G
Box 1
Lape, Esther E
Box 1
MacNider, William
Box 1
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Box 1
Milk Commission of the Medical Society of the County of New York
Box 1
Public Health Relations Committee
(of New York Academy of Medicine)
Box 1
Rockefeller, Nelson
(also about health of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller)
Box 1
Russell, F.F
Box 2
S-Z; include files for
Box 2
Shope, Richard E
Box 2
Stokes, Joseph
July 1941-December 1944 [subseries]
Box 2
A-M; include files for
Box 2
Kerato Conjunctivitis
(report about)
Box 3
N-Z; include files for
Box 3
Poliomyelitis 1941-1942
(2 folders)
(letters to county health officers)
Box 3
Sarvis, Lewis J.
(re U-M School of Public Health building)
Box 3
Specimens mailed
January 1945-December 1947 [subseries]
Box 3
A-F; include files for
Box 3
Carworth Farms
(supplier of laboratory animals)
Box 3
Fan mail
Box 3
Kerato Conjunctivitis
(report about)
Box 4
F-Z; include files for
Francis, Thomas
Box 4
Personal
Box 4
Michigan State Board of Registration
Box 4
University of Michigan
(negotiations with)
Box 4
International Congress for Microbiology
Box 4
International Congress of Pediatrics
Box 4
Penner, L.R
Box 4
Pickels, E.G
Box 4
Poliomyelitis
(miscellaneous; includes some 1944)
Box 4
Public Health Laboratory
(personnel for)
Box 4
Salk, Jonas
(includes correspondence back to 1941)
Box 4
Vaughan, Henry F
Box 4
Wyckoff, Ralph W.G
January 1948-December 1950 [subseries]
Box 5
A-R; include files for
Box 5
Brewer, J.H.
(re merodicein study)
Box 5
Darvisul
Box 5
Kohn, Erwin
(Unitarian mission to Europe)
Box 5
Molitor, Hans
(Merck Institute)
Box 5
Monkeys
(Okatie Farms suppliers)
Box 6
S-Z
January 1951-June 1955 [subseries]
Box 6
A-K; include files for
Box 6
Baron, Samuel
(re his research at the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis)
Box 6
Hartman, Frank W.
(re Symposium on the Dynamics of Virus Infections, 1953)
Box 7
L-Z; include files for
Box 7
Lape, Esther Everett
Box 7
Leprosy. International Congress in Madrid, Spain
Box 7
Medical education. First International Congress on Medical Education 1953
Box 7
Microbiology. Sixth International Congress for Microbiology 1953
Box 7
Nomenclature. Conference on Virus and Rickettsial Classification and Nomenclature 1952
July 1955-June 1959 [subseries]
Box 7
A-E
Box 8
F-Q; include files for
Box 8
Fluoridation
Box 8
Grist, N.R.
(regarding)
Box 8
Hypertension. Regional Conference on Hypertension 1957
Box 8
Ishida, Nakao
(regarding)
Box 8
Koller, Siegfried
(includes manuscript of his article)
Box 8
Kunin, Calvin
(regarding)
Box 8
Lape, Esther Everett
Box 8
Monkeys
(Okatie Farm)
Box 8
National Drug Company
Box 8
National Institutes of Health
Box 8
New York Academy of Sciences: Conference on "Viruses in Search of a Disease" 1956
Poliomyelitis
Box 8
Letters received in response to receipt of polio vaccine report
Box 8
Poliomyelitis Vaccine Project Demonstration Child Health Conference 1955
Box 8
Ad hoc Committee on Poliomyelitis Vaccine 1955-1956
Box 9
R-Z; include files for
Box 9
World Health Organization 1953-1956
(includes papers)
July 1959-1966 [subseries]
Box 9
A-D; include files for
Box 9
Ahrens, E.H. 1961
(re arteriosclerosis discussion group)
Box 9
Allegheny College
Box 9
Animal care legislation
Box 9
Atlas Powder Company
Box 9
Beebe, Gilbert W
Box 9
Bell, Joseph
Box 9
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Box 9
Cameron, George M
Box 9
Cockburn, Charles
Box 9
Communicable Disease Control
Box 9
Conard, Robert A.
Box 9
Connecticut Medicine
Box 9
Cowan, John A
Box 9
Culbertson, C.G
Box 9
Dingle, John
Box 10
D-M; include files for
Box 10
Doisy, Edward A
Box 10
Drescher, Joachim
Box 10
Ferris, Blake E
Box 10
Flood, Merrill M
Box 10
Fox, John
Box 10
Galdston, Iago
Box 10
Gerard, Ralph W
Box 10
Gilliam, Alexander G.
Box 10
Henneberg, Georg
Box 10
Hill, Austin B
Box 10
Hill, Lister
Box 10
Hilleman, M.R
Box 10
Hobson, Derek
Box 10
Huebner, Robert J
Box 10
Humphrey, Hubert
Box 10
International health legislation
Box 10
Jensen, Keith
Box 10
Lasker Award
Box 10
Loosli, Clayton G
Box 10
McCollum, Robert W
Box 10
McFarland, Ross A
Box 10
McKeown, Thomas
Box 10
McNinch, Joseph H
Box 11
M-S; include files for
Box 11
Michigan Dept. of Public Health. Technical Committee on Immunization
Box 11
Michigan State Medical Society
Box 11
Miller, H.H
Box 11
Mizutani, Hiromichi
Box 11
Modell, Walter
Box 11
Mori, Ryoichi
Box 11
Mulder, J
Box 11
National Library of Medicine
Box 11
Okatie Farms
(suppliers of laboratory animals)
Box 11
Perkins, F.T
Box 11
Perrott, George
Box 11
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Box 11
Plasma
(includes earlier materials)
Box 11
Polio suspect
Box 11
Poliomyelitis Control, Surgeon General's Committee on
Box 11
Price, David
Box 11
Price, Winston
Box 11
Robinson, William D
Box 11
Rockefeller Institute
Box 11
Rose, Bram
Box 11
Schering Corporation
Box 11
Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science
Box 11
Scudder, Harvey I
Box 11
Shannon, James A
Box 11
Slepushkin, A.N
Box 11
Shilling, Charles W
Box 11
Smorodintsev, Anatol A
Box 12
T-Z; include files for
Box 12
Thomas, Charles C
Box 12
Tillett, William S
Box 12
Uhr, Jonathan W
Box 12
Upjohn Company
Box 12
Valkenburg, Hans A
Vaughan, Henry F
Box 12
Correspondence
Box 12
Vaughan portrait and testimonial
Box 12
TF manuscript of tribute to Vaughan on presentation of portrait 1964
Box 12
Webster, R.G
Box 12
Wedum, A.G.
(Porton-Henderson equipment chamber)
Box 12
Weir, John M
Box 12
WHO Influenza Centers
Box 12
Yale Sesquicentennial Celebration 1961
1966-1969 [subseries]
(includes earlier papers)
Box 12
A-M; include files for
Box 12
Allegheny College
Box 12
American Medical Association
Box 12
Archives of Environmental Health
Box 12
Baroyan, O.V
Box 12
Becker, Maurice
Box 12
Beierwaltes, William
Box 12
Blaskovic, Dino
Box 12
Borecky, Ladislav
Box 12
Conn, Jerome
Box 12
Downie, Allan W
Box 12
DuPont Co.
(4 folders)
(amantadine research)
Box 12
Fazekas de St. Groth, Stephen
Box 12
Fleming, Robben W
Box 12
Fukumi, Hideo
Box 12
Giovanardi, Augusto
Box 12
Goodner Memorial Fund Committee
Box 12
Gordon, Irving
Box 12
Grayston, Thomas
Box 12
Haas, Richard
Box 12
Hemphill, F.M
Box 12
Hers, J.F
Box 13
H-S; include files for
Box 13
Horsfall, Frank L., Jr
Box 13
Howe, Howard
Box 13
Huggins, Charles
Box 13
Ishida, Nakao
Box 13
Jacob, Edwin J
Box 13
Langmuir, Alex D
Box 13
Lasker Award
Box 13
Lennette, Edwin H
Box 13
Loh, Philip
Box 13
MacLeod, Colin
Box 13
Melnick, Joseph L
Box 13
Michigan Dept. of Public Health. Technical Committee on Immunization
Box 13
Milliken, William
Box 13
Mudd, Stuart
Box 13
Murray, Roderick
Box 13
National Communicable Disease Center
Box 13
National Foundation
Box 13
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Rubella Virus Vaccine trial
Box 13
National Institutes of Health
Box 13
National Institute of Mental Health. Center for Epidemiolgic Studies
Box 13
National Institute of Neurolgic Diseases and Blindness-Rubella
Box 13
Nixon, Richard
(reaction to speech)
Box 13
Ochoa, Severo
Box 13
Ortlieb, Rene J
Box 13
Paffenbarger, Ralph
Box 13
Page, Irvine
Box 13
Paul, John R
Box 13
Postlethwaite, Roy
Box 13
Rammelkamp, Charles H
Box 13
Reiff, Guy G
Box 13
Rous, Peyton
Box 13
Salk, Jonas
Box 13
Science
(periodical)
Box 13
Shope, Richard E
Box 13
Smadel, Joseph
(also concerns Smadel memorial)
Box 13
Smadel Lecture 1967
Box 13
Soloviev, Vanlentine
Box 13
Stamler, Jeremiah
Box 13
Starling, Frank M
Box 13
Stern Symposia on Perspectives in Virology
Box 13
Sternberg Award
Box 13
Stewart, Gordon
Box 13
Stock, C. Chester
Box 14
T-Z; include files for:
Box 14
U.S. Public Health Service
Box 14
Vaughan, Henry F
Box 14
Wenner, Herbert
Box 14
Wilkins, Robert
Box 14
Wood, Harrison
Box 14
Woodward, Theodore
Box 14
World Health Organization Expert Committee on Respiratory Viruses
(A.M. Payne)
Box 14
World Health Organization, animal influenza, study of
Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center 1953-1957 [series]
(10.5 linear feet)
Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center, 1953-1957 (10.5 linear feet). Although received as part of the Thomas Francis accession, these are the administrative files of the PEC and as such they include files of those other individuals associated with the work of polio vaccine testing. In this category are lab consultant Herbert A. Wenner and members of the statistical division Robert B. Voight and John Napier. Crucial in importance is the subseries - Topical Files - which contains substantive and procedural information about the administration of the polio vaccine testing. Principal headings within this subseries relate to the PEC's relationship with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, study lab files, and Jonas Salk materials. Smaller subseries detail activities of Francis and the PEC subsequent to the announcement of the Salk polio vaccine. These relate to matters of the production and allocation of the vaccine and may be found in the subseries, Technical Advisory Committee on Poliomyelitis and under Vaccine.
Only a small portion of the actual patient testing files have come to the library. There are paper records for patients in the states of Texas through Wyoming only. The whereabouts of the remainder of the paper records is uncertain. The Francis collection does include microfilmed records of the entire project so perhaps the originals were discarded following the filming.
Establishing documents and letters 1953-1954 [subseries]
Box 14
Files 1953-1954
Topical file [subseries]
Box 14
Accounting [sample] 1954
Box 14
Blood sample
(pre and post vaccine blood sample study)
Box 14
Blood samples
Communicable Disease Center
Box 14
General
Box 14
Kunin, Calvin
Box 14
Seibert, Richard H.
(1 folder, 1 volume)
Box 14
Crank letters, etc.
(2 folders)
Box 14
Epidemic Intelligence Service
(officer assignments and participation in polio vaccine evaluation program)
Evaluation
Box 14
Charts and graphs
Box 14
Final Report
Box 14
Requests for Information
Box 14
Summary Report and Abstract
Field Trial
Box 14
Bleedings
Box 14
Inoculation data finalized
Box 14
Inoculation estimates
Box 14
Irregularities
Box 14
Manual of suggested procedures
Box 14
Operational memoranda
Box 14
Form letters
(2 folders)
Box 14
Forms
Box 15
Francis, Thomas
Box 15
Congratulatory letters to
Box 15
Congratulatory letters from
Box 15
Daily memoranda
Box 15
Gudakunst lecture, "Approaches to the prevention of poliomyelitis" ud1b 1956
Box 15
Speaking engagements
Box 15
Gamma globulin
(2 folders)
Box 15
Hawaii
Box 15
Hemphill, F.M.
(re evaluation of vaccine effectiveness)
Box 15
Lilly and Company
Box 15
Lot reports
Box 15
Meetings
(27 folders)
(arranged chronologically)
Box 15
National Institutes of Health
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
Box 15
General
Box 15
Dated correspondence 1954-1955
(2 folders)
Alphabetical correspondence
Box 16
Dublin, Thomas D
Box 16
Engelbach, Albert G
Box 16
Kumm, Henry W
Box 16
O'Connor, Basil
Box 16
Public Relations
(Stegen and Graff)
Box 16
Van Riper, Hart E
Box 16
Memoranda
Box 16
Orthopedic Advisors meeting July 16, 1955
Box 16
Orthopedic Consultants
(re muscular grading)
Box 16
Parke, Davis and Company
Physical therapists
Box 16
General
Box 16
1954
Box 16
1955
Box 16
1956
(meeting of June 17-23)
Box 16
Polio incidence
Box 16
Priest Committee
(U.S. Congress)
Salk, Jonas
Box 16
Correspondence
Box 16
Reprints and articles
Box 16
Paper and correspondence re phenol red as indicator in titrating poliomyelitis virus
Box 16
Seriological tests
Box 16
Specialists and/or consulting physicians
Statistics
Box 16
Absenteeism
Box 16
Fatalities
Box 16
In and out patients
Box 16
Polio reported cases
Study Lab
Box 16
Set-up
Box 16
Procedures
Box 16
Letters re participation
Box 16
Summay replies
Name file
Box 16
Bodian, David
Box 16
Brown, Gordon
Box 16
Coriell, Lewis L
Box 16
Dalldorf, Gilbert
Box 16
Enders, John F
Box 16
Evans, Charles A
Box 17
Fischer, Robert G
Box 17
Fox, John P
Box 17
Frisch, Arthur W
Box 17
Gebhardt, Louis P
Box 17
Kalter, Seymour S
Box 17
Karzon, David
Box 17
Larson, Carl L
Box 17
Lennette, Edwin H
Box 17
Melnick, Joseph L
Box 17
Microbiological Associates
Box 17
Rasmussen, Aaron
Box 17
Robbins, Frederick C
Box 17
Rustigan, Robert
Box 17
Shaughnessy, Howard J
Box 17
Schaeffer, Morris
Box 17
Steigman, Alex J
Box 17
Syverton, Jerome T
Box 17
Wenner, Herbert A
Canada file
Box 17
General
Box 17
Canadian incidence
Box 17
Defries, R.D
Box 17
Wilt, J.C
Box 17
Alberta
Box 17
Manitoba
Box 17
Nova Scotia
Finland file
Box 17
Penttinen, Kari
(State Serum Institute, Helsinki)
Box 17
Summary data
(1 volume)
(placebo and observed study populations)
Technical Advisory Committee on Poliomyelitis
Topical
Box 17
General
Box 17
Regulations for poliomyelitis vaccine
Technical reports
Box 17
June 1955
Box 17
October 1955
Box 17
November 1955
Box 18
Minimum requirements for polio virus vaccine
Box 18
Monkey safety test for poliomyelitis
Box 18
Potency testing of poliomyelitis vaccine
Meeting files
Box 18
July-December 1955
(10 folders)
Box 19
January-November 1956
(7 folders)
Vaccine
Box 19
Allocation
Box 19
Coding, labeling, packaging
Box 19
Dummy packages
Box 19
Inoculations
Box 19
Lots
Box 19
Manufacture and production
Box 19
Placebo
Box 19
Preliminary tabulation
Box 19
Reactions
(to vaccine)
Box 19
Receipt of
Box 19
Requests for immunization
Box 19
Safety
Box 19
Schedule
Box 19
Selection of counties
Box 19
Specifications and minimum requirements
Box 19
Syringes
(individual)
Box 20
Virology
Box 20
Hela cells
Box 20
Medium #199
Box 20
Orphan viruses
Box 20
Standard virus and serum
Box 20
Tissue culture
Box 20
Venules
Box 20
Virus
(live and dead)
Advisory Committee [subseries]
Box 20
Meeting files 1954-1955
(5 folders)
Lab consultant (Herbert A. Wenner) 1954-1956 [subseries]
Box 20
Correspondence 1954-1956
Box 20
Baltimore February 1954
Box 20
Report on visitation to laboratories May 1954
Box 20
Letter to laboratories re materials June 1954
Box 20
Letter to laboratories re family studies and procedures July 1954
Box 20
Questionnaires to laboratories July 1954
(also re cross testing with sera)
Box 20
Follow-up letter September 1954
Box 20
Telegram November 1954
Box 20
Telegram January 1955
Box 20
Human reference sera February 1955
Statistical Division [subseries]
(Robert B. Voight/John Napier)
Topical
Box 20
Analysis of referrals
Box 20
Bureau of the Census
Box 20
Correspondence, general
(2 folders)
Box 20
Editing and coding
Box 20
Organization
Box 20
Personnel
Box 20
Progress reports
Box 20
Status reports
(4 folders)
Box 20
Weekly case reports
(Dublin)
Box 20
Work schedules
Box 21
Chronological files
(outgoing correspondence)
Box 21
August 1954-June 1956
(9 volumes)
Outgoing Correspondence [subseries]
(Chronological files, Thomas Francis file)
Box 21
1954-1957
(3 volumes, 1 folder)
Box 21
Work schedules
Final report and related [subseries]
Box 22
Evaluation of 1954 Field Trial of Poliomyelitis-Summary Report April 12, 1955
Box 22
Evaluation of 1954 Field Trial of Poliomyelitis-Final Report April, 1957
Box 22
Report of the Child Health Study, Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan
(study of the ways in which participants in the polio vaccine study might differ from non-participants)
Box 22
Original Material from Press Conference
Box 22
Correspondence with state health agencies regarding effectiveness of poliomyelitis vaccine ud1b 1956
Research [subseries]
Box 22
Lantern Slides with charts, graphs of labs studies etc.
Individual patient data files
Box 22
Texas, Vermont, Virginia[Patient/client records restricted until July 01, 2055]
Box 23
West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming[Patient/client records restricted until July 01, 2055]
Box 24
Field Trial Registration Schedules(Microfilm)[Patient/client records restricted until July 01, 2055. See collection access statement for exceptions.]
(arranged by state, with schools participating in the field tests, names of student, and other information germane to the tests)
Armed Forces Epidemiological Board 1938-1969 [series]
(10 linear feet)
The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board series is divided into two subseries; Presidents files and Commission on Influenza of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board. The President's Files date from Francis' term as president of the board, 1958-1960. The Commission on Influenza records are in fact the official records of this agency. Established in 1941 with Francis as its head, the Commission on Influenza was headquartered within the School of Public Health. And when Francis stepped aside in 1955, his colleague Fred Davenport became director and served into the 1970s. The researcher interested in the work of the Commission and the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board should consult Davenport's papers at the library for related materials.
President's files 1958-1960 [subseries]
Box 28
Central Board
Box 28
Memoranda for the files and notes on phone conversations on various subjects
Box 28
Recommendations
Board members files
Box 28
Bayne-Jones, Stanhope
Box 28
Coggeshall, Lowell T
Box 28
Dingle, John
(2 folders)
(include earlier Dingle papers, 1956-1957 when Dingle was president of the AFEB)
Box 28
Francis, Thomas
Box 28
Kern, Richard A
Box 28
Loosli, Clayton
Box 28
MacLeod, Colin
Box 28
Shope, Richard E
Box 28
Smith, Charles E
Box 28
Wood, W. Barry
Fiscal and budget materials
Box 28
Budget Planning summaries
Box 28
Fiscal
(2 folders)
Box 28
Contract proposals
Box 28
Meetings (board meetings and miscellaneous) 1958-1960
(14 folders)
Military
Box 28
Armed Forces Pest Control Board
Box 28
Army Scientific Advisory Panel
Box 28
Assistant Secretary of Defense
Box 28
Babione, R.W
Box 28
Benenson, A.S
Box 28
Canadian Forces Medical Council
Box 28
Cushing, E.H
Box 29
Defense Science Board
Box 29
Griffin, H.E
Box 29
Hays, S.B.
(Surgeon General)
Box 29
Hullinghorst, R.L
Box 29
Ley, H.L
Box 29
Long, A.P
Box 29
Military Medical Research Organizations
Box 29
Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization
Box 29
Rizzolo, John
(executive secretary)
Box 29
Timmerman, F.W
Box 29
Vivona, Stefano
Radiation
Box 29
General
Box 29
Atomic Energy Commission
Contracts
Box 29
Dingle, John
Box 29
Ehrlich, R.
(not granted)
Box 29
Feller, A.E
Box 29
Francis, Thomas
Box 29
Havens, W. Paul
Box 29
Nelson, Norton
Box 29
Pillsbury, Donald M
Box 29
Quilligan, J.J
Box 29
Stetson, Chandler A
Box 29
Wisseman, C.L
Box 29
Wood, W. Barry
Policy and Special Studies
Box 29
Consultants
Box 29
Continuous cell lines
Box 29
Human volunteers
Box 29
Justification for the AFEB
Box 29
Mental health
Box 29
National Medical Research Unit
Box 29
Nungester proposal
(re pathogenesis of infectious diseases)
Box 29
Penicillin
Box 29
Poliomyelitis vaccine
(4th dose)
Box 29
Post regulations
(re shipment of etiologic agents)
Box 29
Protocols
Box 29
Public information
Box 29
Public information meeting December 1959
Box 29
Sensitization and harmful effects of immunization
Box 29
Serum repository-diagnostic reagents
Box 29
Travel
Box 29
Tropical medicine
Box 30
Commissions
Accidental Trauma
Box 30
General
Box 30
Dunlap, Jack
Box 30
Acute Respiratory Disease
Box 30
Cutaneous Disease
Enteric Infections
Box 30
General
Box 30
Cholera studies
(Kenneth Goodner)
Box 30
Moan test
Epidemiological Survey
Box 30
General
Box 30
Dugway Proving Ground visit 1959
Box 30
Environmental Hygiene
Immunization
Box 30
General
Box 30
Dengue study
(Wisseman use of Japanese volunteers to test vaccine)
Influenza
Box 30
General
Box 30
Davenport, Fred M
Box 30
Adenovirus vaccine
Box 30
Adjuvant vaccines
Box 30
Field studies 1958-1959
Box 30
Fort Dix
Box 30
Fort Ord
(2 folders)
Box 30
Influenza immunization program
Box 30
Influenza virus vaccine
Box 30
Kessler AFB
Box 30
Lowry AFB
Box 30
Meetings
(4 folders)
Box 30
Russian "Asian flu" vaccine
Box 30
SAC pilot study
Parasitic Disease
Box 30
General
Box 30
Malaria research
Rickettsial Diseases
Box 31
General
Box 31
Q fever vaccine
Box 31
Typhus vaccine
Box 31
Streptococcal Diseases
Viral Infections
Box 31
General
Box 31
Havens, W. Paul
Box 31
Paul, John
Board files
Box 31
Meetings 1960-1965
(14 folders)
Commission on Influenza of the AFEB [subseries]
(Thomas Francis, Jr. was director of the Influenza Commission, 1941-1955)
Historical files
Box 32
"History of The Commission on Influenza of the Board for the Investigation and Control of Influenza and other Epidemic Diseases in the Army February 1941-December 1945"
(unpublished 86 page mss written by Thomas Francis, Jr)
Alphabetical file 1941-1947
(some files date forward to 1950, file letters A-H missing)
Box 32
I-J; individual file folders include
Influenza vaccination studies 1943-1945
Box 32
California
(2 folders)
Box 32
Chicago
(2 folders)
(study done in conjunction with Wellston, Michigan; see also material in Wellston, Michigan folders)
Box 32
Cornell
(5 folders)
Box 32
Iowa
Box 32
Michigan
Box 32
Minnesota
Box 32
Utah
(Camp Kerns)
Various
Box 32
Hirst, George K
Box 32
Rickard/Sawyer correspondence
Box 32
Final reports
(and correspondence about)
Box 32
Jaundice/Hepatitis studies
(.5 lin. ft. not further described)
Box 33
J-P; individual file folders include
Box 33
Jaundice/Hepatitis studies
(.2 lin. ft. not further described)
Box 33
Lederle Laboratories
Box 33
MacLeod, Colin M
Box 33
Masks
(information and correspondence about)
Box 33
Meetings (Epidemiological Board) 1941-1950
Box 33
MidPac investigation 1945
(notes, data, report)
Box 33
Patents
Box 33
Personnel
(2 folders)
Box 33
Proposed studies and budgets
Box 33
Proposed materials and equipment
Box 33
Priorities
Box 33
Publications
Box 34
P-Z; individual file folders include
Box 34
Puerto Rico trip 1944
Box 34
Reports of studies undera the Influenza Commission done by members of the Commission 1943-1946
(4 folders)
Box 34
Respiratory disease outbreak: Chanute & Scott Fields February 1947
(reported by Jonas Salk)
Box 34
Respiratory Disease-Camp Custer 1942-1944
Box 34
Salk, Jonas
(2 folders)
Box 34
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 1943
Stanley, W.M.
(Rockefeller Foundation)
Box 34
Correspondence
Box 34
Vaccine-stability
Box 34
Vaccine-toxicity
Box 34
Wellston, Michigan experiment
(2 folders)
Alphabetical file 1948-1950
(some files date back to 1941)
Box 35
A-M; individual file folders include
Box 35
Andrewes, C.H.
(International Strain Study Center)
Box 35
Bauer, Frank L
Box 35
Contracts 1941-1950
(10 folders)
Box 35
Fourth Medical Field Laboratory-European Command
Box 35
Influenza 1947-1950
(5 folders)
Box 35
Lederle Laboratories
Box 35
MacLeod, Colin M
Magill, T.P
Box 35
Correspondence
Box 35
Strain Study Center form letters
Box 35
Re chairmanship of committee to arrive at a standardization of serological procedure
Box 36
M-Z; individual file folders include
Box 36
Meetings and conferences
(6 folders)
Box 36
Publications by commission members
Box 36
Reports
(4 folders)
(quarterly, annual, etc)
Box 36
Salk, Jonas
Box 36
Shope, R.E.
(re oti strain)
Vaccination programs
1946
Box 36
Michigan
Box 36
Minnesota
Box 36
U.S. Army
1947
Box 36
Commission
Box 36
Salk, Jonas
1948-1949
Box 36
Michigan
Box 36
Jonas Salk at Fort Dix
Box 36
Gordon Meikeljohn at Fort Ord
Box 36
Hall's final summary for influenza 1947-1948
Box 36
Potency tests
Box 36
Procurement 1948
Box 36
Protocols concerning antigenicity 1948
Box 36
Specifications and requirements 1944-1947
Box 36
World Health Organization
(Influenza Information Center)
Alphabetical file 1951-1955
(NOTE: This alphabetical series continues in the papers of Fred Davenport who succeeded Francis as director of the Commission on Influenza)
Box 37
A-R; individual file folders include
Box 37
Alaska
(exhumation of bodies from 1918 epidemic)
Box 37
History of Preventive Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Department, World War II
(section on influenza)
Box 37
Influenza current
(4 folders)
Box 37
Influenza-gamma globulin
Lennette, Edwin
Box 37
General
Box 37
Adenoviruses
Box 37
MacLeod, Colin
Box 37
Magill, T.P.-Strain Study Center
Box 37
Meiklejohn, Gordon
Box 37
Meetings
(9 folders)
Box 37
Monovalent studies
Box 37
News releases
Box 37
Publications
Box 37
Rapalski, A.J
Box 37
Reports
(semi-annual and quarterly)
Box 38
R-Z; individual file folders include
Box 38
Respiratory disease rates-Army
Box 38
Rose, Harry M
Box 38
Salk, Jonas
Box 38
Sampson Air Force Base Study
(3 folders)
Box 38
Vaccine
(5 folders)
Box 38
World Health Organization-Influenza Information Center
Meeting files 1959-1966
(11 folders)
(During and following his presidency of the AFEB, Thomas Francis, Jr. continued to serve as a member and a responsible investigator of the Commission on Influenza; these are the files from this period in his career)
Box 38
Meeting files
Responsible investigator reports
Box 38
Reports
Organizations 1938-1969 [series]
(22 linear feet)
Organizations, 1939-1969 (2 linear feet). The largest series in the collection, Organizations, is an amalgam of separate groupings of records pertaining to Thomas Francis' participation in professional, private, and governmental organizations and agencies. The size of the subseries vary considerably depending upon the level of his involvement and the period of time in which he was active. Where Francis was director or heavily involved, the amount of records is extensive, substantive, and important to any study of Francis' career. Where his participation was less direct, the organization files consist of professional exchanges, conferences and meetings, papers and publications, and advice and counsel sought and exchanged. The Organization series is arranged alphabetically by the name of the organization and thereafter topically.
Among the most significant organizational files are those of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which was a prime sponsor of Francis' work on the polio vaccine tests.
Box 25
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1960
Box 25
American Academy of Microbiology 1957-1961, 1967
Box 25
American Association for the Advancement of Science 1950-1957
American Association of Immunologists
Box 25
1948-1950
Box 25
1951-1955
Box 25
1955-1959
Box 25
1961-1969
Journal of Immunology
Box 25
1940-1948
Box 25
1949-1950
Box 25
1951-1957
American Bacteriologists, Society of
Box 25
1939-1945
Box 25
1946
Box 25
January-March 1947
Box 25
April-December 1947
Box 25
1948
Box 25
1949-1950
Box 25
1951-1959
Box 25
Bacteriological Reviews 1951-1954
(continued as American Society for Microbiology)
Box 25
Government Research panel 1949-1950
Box 25
American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health 1949-1954
(formerly Interim Board for Preventive Medicine)
Box 25
American College of Physicians 1938-1969
(scattered dates)
Box 25
American College of Preventive Medicine 1956-1957
American Epidemiological Society
Box 25
1943-1948
Box 25
1949-1950
Box 25
1951-1954
Box 25
1955-1959
Box 25
1964-1968
American Medical Association
Box 25
1949-1950
Box 25
1951-1961
Box 25
Committee on Biological Agents of a Hazardous Nature 1949
American Philosophical Society
Box 25
1954-1969
Box 25
Membership Committee 1961-1966
Box 26
American Public Health Association
Box 26
General 1940-1948
Box 26
General 1949-1950
Box 26
General 1951-1959
Committees/Sub-committees
Administrative Practice
(also Subcommittee on the Evaluation of Administrative Practice)
Box 26
General 1947
Box 26
Re Study Committee on Influenza Vaccination
Box 26
Air Sanitation 1947-1950
Box 26
Laboratory Methods, Coordinating Committee on 1944-1956
(4 folders)
(also Subcommittee on Diagnostic Procedures on Virus and Rickettsial Methods)
Research and Standards
Box 26
1943-1950
(3 folders)
Box 26
Re Pearl Kendrick and her work on pertussis 1948-1950
Box 26
Technical Development Board 1958-1960
Sections
Box 26
Epidemiology Section 1951-1969
(2 folders)
Box 26
Industrial Hygiene 1947-1949
(with AMA and USPHA)
Box 27
Governing Council and Executive Board 1948-1964
(0.7 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 28
American Society for Clinical Investigation
Box 28
1938-1945
Box 28
1946
Box 28
1947-1950
Box 28
1951-1959
Box 28
American Society for Experimental Pathology 1952-1956
American Society for Microbiology
Box 28
1960-1965
Box 28
1968
Box 28
American Trudeau Society. Technical Committee on Acute Respiratory Diseases 1959-1960
Box 39
Army Medical Service Graduate School 1951-1953
Association of American Physicians
Box 39
1941-1948
Box 39
1951-1959
Box 39
1960-1969
(scattered)
Association of Schools of Public Health
Box 39
1941-1945
Box 39
Accreditation Committee 1941-1947
Box 39
Atomic Bomb Casualty Committee 1955-1969
(0.7 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 40
Biological warfare defense 1951-1956
(3 folders)
(various organizations)
Box 40
Correspondence with Collaborating Laboratories 1951-1952
(includes correspondence of Jonas Salk)
Box 40
Brookhaven National Laboratory 1957-1962
Box 40
Cholera
(6 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
(various organizations, NIH Cholera Advisory Committee, 1965 Symposium on Cholera Research, and Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory)
Box 40
Clinical Research, Central Society for 1945-1948
Common Cold Institute
Box 40
1949-1954
Box 40
1955-1957
Box 41
Common Cold Institute
Box 41
1958
Box 41
1959
Communicable Disease Center
(USPHS)
Box 41
General
Box 41
Influenza Surveillance Committee
Constantinian Society
Box 41
1949-1950
Box 41
1951-1959
Box 41
Cosmos Club 1953-1968
(3 folders)
Box 41
Drug Safety, Commission on 1962-1965
(0.5 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 42
Ecological Study Commission
Box 42
Epidemiological survey, ad hoc committee on the 1950-1955
(2 folders)
Box 42
Epidemiology and Biometry, Advisory Committee on 1956-1960
(0.5 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 42
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Box 42
Infectious Diseases Society of America
Box 43
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research 1947-1968
(unprocessed)
Box 44
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research 1947-1968
(unprocessed)
Box 45
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research 1947-1968
(0.6 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Life Science, ad hoc committee on 1965-1966
Box 45
Meeting 1965
Box 45
Meeting 1966
Box 45
Hesburgh, Theodore
Box 45
Rossini, F.D
Box 45
Lobund Institute 1958-1965
Box 46
Medical Bacteriologists, Steering Committee for the Accreditation of
(0.6 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 46
Michigan Association for Regional Medical Programs
(0.2 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 46
Microbiology, Ad hoc Committee on Sectional Research in
(0.2 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 47
National Academy of Sciences
(0.5 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
Box 47
Reports of the U-M Dept. of Epidemiology to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis July 1941-June 1958
(annual/semi-annual reports)
Box 48
Reports of the U-M Dept. of Epidemiology to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis July 1958-June 1964
(annual/semi-annual reports)
International Poliomyletis Conferences
Box 48
1948
(1st)
Box 48
1951
(2nd)
Box 48
1954
(3rd)
Box 48
1957
(4th)
Box 49
Proceedings of round-table conferences, committees, etc
Box 50
Proceedings of round-table conferences, committees, etc
Poliomyelitis
(miscellaneous)
Box 50
East Hospital Sanitary Sewage Disposal Company report January-July 1943
Yearly summaries and related 1944-1951
(10 folders)
Dated files
1941-1947
Box 51
Budgets, accounting sheets, etc
Correspondence
Box 51
Gudakunst (Don)/Kingdon (Carolyn)
Box 51
O'Connor, Basil
Box 51
Van Riper, Hart E
Box 51
Weaver, H.M
Box 51
Various (Charlock, Lavan, Kelly, etc.)
1948-1950
Box 51
Budgets, accounting sheets, etc. 1948-1949
Correspondence
Box 51
Weaver, H.M
Box 51
Various
1950-1954
Correspondence
Box 51
Weaver, H.M
Box 51
Various
1955-1965
Correspondence
Box 51
Kumm, Henry W. 1955-1959
Box 51
Rivers, Thomas
(Polio Advisory Committee)
Box 51
Van Riper, Hart E. 1955-1956
Box 51
Various
Box 52
National Institutes of Health. Committee on Influenza Research 1957-1962
(0.5 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
(includes Subcommittee of Investigators)
Box 52
National Institutes of Health. Polio Technical Committee 1957-1959
(3 folders)
Box 52
National Institutes of Health. Virus and Rickettsial Section
Box 52
National Library of Medicine
Box 52
National Research Council. Division of Medical Sciences 1951-1954
(3 folders)
Box 52
National Sanitation Foundation 1965-1966
(2 folders)
(Man versus Environment Congress)
Box 52
National Tuberculosis Association 1950
Preventive Medicine
Box 52
Association of Professors of Preventive Medicine 1953-1958
Box 52
Conference of Professors of Preventive Medicine 1946-1948
Box 52
Interim Board for Preventive Medicine 1948
Box 53
Rheumatic Fever Control Committee, Michigan State Medical Society 1947-1959
(4 folders)
Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
Box 53
1940-1958
Box 53
1966-1968
Box 53
Space Science, Committee on the Biological Aspects of 1959-1960
Box 53
U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program 1965-1969
(.6 lin. ft. unprocessed)
Box 54
U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program 1965-1969
(0.5 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 54
U.S.-Philippines Workshop on Science Cooperation and Development 1965
(0.2 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 54
Vaccine Development Committee, National Institutes of Health 1965-1975
(0.3 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 55
Vaccine Development Committee, National Institutes of Health 1965-1975
(unprocessed)
Box 56
Vaccine Development Committee, National Institutes of Health 1965-1975
(0.5 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 56
Veterans Administration Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Research and Education Committee 1953-1959
(2 folders)
Box 56
Washtenaw County Medical Society. Poliomyelitis Committee
University of Michigan 1941-1969 [series]
(3 linear feet)
University of Michigan, 1941-1969 (3 linear feet). This smaller series relates specifically to Francis' responsibilities as a member of the faculty of the University of Michigan. As a respected scientist and scholar, Francis was called upon to serve on such university-wide or cross-unit committees as the Cancer Research Institute Committee, the Mental Health Research Institute Advisory Committee, the Henry Russel Lecture Committee, and the Senate Advisory Committee. In addition, this series contains files relating to his work within the School of Public Health. Noteworthy here are records maintained by Francis on the extensive study undertaken by the School of Public Health on the state of public health in the small community of Tecumseh, Michigan.
Box 56
Senate Advisory Committee
Box 56
Programs and committees
Box 57
Henry Russel Lecture Committee
(0.3 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 57
Cancer Research Institute Committee 1954-1969
(0.7 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 58
Cancer Research Institute Committee 1954-1969
(0.5 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Box 58
Mental Health Research Institute Advisory Committee
Box 58
Division of Health Sciences-Biological
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Box 58
Committee for selection of new dean
Box 58
Miscellaneous committees
Box 58
Re sabbaticals
Box 59
Tecumseh Community Health Study 1959-1961
(0.6 linear feet)
(unprocessed)
Speeches, articles, etc 1928-1969 [series]
(4 linear feet)
Speeches, articles, etc., 1928-1969 (4 linear feet). Like Organizations, this series is also a bringing together of similar kinds of files. Francis was a prolific writer, speaker, and attendee at professional conferences. In this series have been gathered files pertaining to symposia and conferences attended, reprints of articles, speeches and outlines of talks, and a scattering of some of the materials Francis used as an instructor at the University (1938-1940 only).
Box 59
Symposia and conference papers
Box 59
1930-1956, 1959-1960
(scattered)
Box 60
1961-1965
Box 61
1966-1969
Box 62
Reprints of articles 1928-1969
(3 volumes, 1 folder)
Box 62
Calendar of activities 1941, 1951-1962
Box 63
Instructors notes 1938-1940
Box 63
Outlines and notes of talks 1942-1961, 1968
(includes laminated fragment of announcement of success of polio vaccine)
Topical files 1925-1967 [series]
(1 linear foot)
Topical files, 1925-1967 (1 linear ft.) is a small series consisting of various materials not easily assimilated into the principal series of the Francis papers, e.g. material on the Committee for a National Science Foundation and on a post-war epidemiology course.
Box 63
Asian Influenza 1957
Cole, Rufus 1966-1967
(correspondence and background material largely concerning TF's speech honoring Cole)
Box 63
Background
(2 folders)
Box 63
Kovalenko Award
Box 63
Cole Lecture 1967
Box 64
Miscellaneous
(3 folders)
Box 64
Committee for a National Science Foundation 1943-1946
Box 64
Diagnostic Procedures for Virus and Rickettsial Diseases 1946-1956
(1 folder)
(correspondence and other materials relating to publication of various editions of book)
Box 64
Hepatitis research (Coral City, Michigan) 1944-1945
Box 64
National Research Foundation 1945-1946
(correspondence, with Homer Smith concerning science legislation and the founding of the N.R.F.)
Box 64
Post-war epidemiology 1944
(U-M in-service training course,)
Box 64
Yale University course materials circa 1925
Personal/Biographical 1917-1969 [series]
(2 linear feet)
Personal/Biographical, 1917-1969 (2 linear ft.) is an artificial series comprised of biographical and personal information about Francis, including newspaper clippings about his life, scrapbooks of clippings, various early research materials, and photographs.
Box 65
Appointments
Box 65
Awards, diplomas, etc.
(See also oversize folder)
Box 65
Biographical
Box 65
Bibliographical
Box 65
Condolences 1969-1970
(2 folders)
Box 65
High school yearbook 1917
(Newcastle, PA)
Box 65
History/Reminiscences, no date
Box 65
Newspaper clippings circa 1940s-1970s
(3 folders)
(See also oversize folder)
Photographs 1950s-1969
Box 65
Associates and friends
(3 folders)
Box 65
Groups
Box 65
Various 1950s-1969
Box 65
Scrapbooks 1941-1972
(2 folders)
(includes obituaries and memorials, photos, clippings, and related materials)
