300th General Hospital Unit Collection
Collection Scope and Content Summary
The photographs in this collection are primarily black and white from 1942-1945. Most of the photographs were taken at Vanderbilt, Italy, or North Africa. Pictures include personal photographs, official photographs, and a few pictures from reunions after the war. Also the collection has pictures of George W. Reyer from the Vanderbilt Commodore yearbooks 1915-16. Several wartime souvenirs (a German dog tag, an army fork, medals, and menus) are also included in the collection from time spent both abroad and in Tennessee. Scrapbooks include those donated by members of the unit and also a scrapbook created by the EBL Special Collections.
Dates
- 1915 - 2008
Notes about Access to this Collection
Reproduction Rights
Historical or Biographical Note
Extent
2 Cubic Feet (2 Hollinger Boxes, 6 Paige Boxes, 4 Scrapbooks)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements note
Acquisition Information
Processing History
- Title
- 300th General Hospital Unit Collection
- Status
- Partially Processed
- Author
- History of Medicine Collections Staff
- Date
- 2004-10-26
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Eskind Biomedical Library Manuscripts Collection Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu