Otis Historical Archives
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Date of Records:1920s – 1984 (bulk 1950-1984)
6 cubic feet, 13 boxes; oversized items in MC06;
related items located in Hammond Hall 21:7:8
Description
The Haymaker Collection consists of the personal and business papers of Dr. Webb Edward Haymaker (1902-1984). Haymaker served as Chief of the Neuropathology Branch of the Army Institute of Pathology (AIP) which later evolved into the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), from 1942 until 1961. Included in the collection are papers documenting Haymaker’s time in the Army Reserves and his career at the AFIP.
Dr. Haymaker was a world renowned neuropathologist whose career spanned six decades and included a research position at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). There he studied the effects of “cosmic rays” on mice that traveled into space on the Apollo 11 mission. The collection contains correspondence related to this experiment and drafts of the final report to NASA.
Dr. Haymaker was also a prolific author and lecturer. He edited two seminal works in the neuroscience field, Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System, and Bing’s Local Diagnosis in Neurological Diseases. He also contributed chapters to these texts. In addition, he co-edited multiple editions of The Founders of Neurology, one of his most popular books, as well as The Hypothalamus, and Peripheral Nerve Injuries. The collection includes Haymaker’s correspondence with the many contributors to these texts, as well as with the various publishers. Haymaker was writing and editing up to the time of his death in 1984 from complications of pre-leukemia.
Haymaker traveled the world, lecturing at conferences and performing research, both professional and personal. The collection includes correspondence from his trips to the South Pacific, Europe, Canada, and Utah, where he investigated rumors that Marie Curie obtained uranium for her radiation experiments from mines in the state.
The collection also contains general correspondence and photographs of family, friends and colleagues, as well as other oversized materials related to Haymaker’s life and career.
SERIES 1: Materials related to books authored/edited by Webb Haymaker
Box 1
Bing’s Textbook of Nervous Diseases (1939)—Correspondence—Miscellaneous—1940-1951
Bing’s Local Diagnosis in Neurological Diseases (1956 edition)—Contract, correspondence—1954-1963
Bing’s Local Diagnosis in Neurological Diseases (1969 edition)—Correspondence—C.V. Mosby—1959-1969
Bing’s Local Diagnosis in Neurological Diseases (1969 edition)—Correspondence—C.V. Mosby—1965-1971
Bing’s Local Diagnosis in Neurological Diseases—Correspondence—Mosby—1971-1981
Bing’s Local Diagnosis in Neurological Diseases—Correspondence—Mosby—1982-1984
Bing’s Local Diagnosis in Neurological Diseases—Correspondence—Schiller, Francis—1973-1981
Bing’s Local Diagnosis in Neurological Diseases—Correspondence—Weaver, Max—1969
Bing’s Local Diagnosis in Neurological Diseases—Permissions, Introduction—1976-1983
Box 2
Founders of Neurology 1970 edition—Correspondence—Miscellaneous
Founders of Neurology 1970 edition—Correspondence—Miscellaneous
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Charles C. Thomas Publishers—1968-1979
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Charles C. Thomas Publishers—1980-1982
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Adams, Raymond—1958-1981
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Cammermeyer, Jan—1971
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Cauna, Nikolajs; Coers, C.—1970-1980
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—deCastro, Fernando—1963-1966
Box 3
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Feigin, Irwin—1970-1976
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Foncin, J.F.; Gruner, J.E.—1974-1981
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Hager, Hermann—1959-1971
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Hoeber, Inc.—1957-1968
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Liss, Leopold; Scharenberg, Konstantin—1970-1979
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Philpott, Delbert—1971
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Rakic, Pasco; Sidman, Richard—1972-1981
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Roizin, Leon—1969-1981
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Russfield, Agnes—1968-1981
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Wolter, Reimer—1964-1971
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Correspondence—Yakovlev, Paul—1970-1976
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Miscellaneous correspondence
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—List of contributors, galley proof information
Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous System—Permissions
Box 4
The Hypothalamus—Correspondence and permissions—Brobeck, John—1960-1963
The Hypothalamus—Chapter on Regulation of thermal exchange, Figures and references—Brobeck, John; Han, Paul—1962-1964
The Hypothalamus—Contract and correspondence—Charles C. Thomas Publishers—1963-1971
The Hypothalamus—Permissions—1963-1967
Peripheral Nerve Injuries book—Correspondence—Kempe, Ludwig—1980-1982
Peripheral Nerve Injuries book—Correpsondence—Kempe, Treanor, Upton—1980
Peripheral Nerve Injuries book—Correspondence—Ochoa, Jose—1982-1983
Peripheral Nerve Injuries book—Correspondence—Upton, Adrian—1980-1982
Peripheral Nerve Injuries book—Correspondence—W.B. Saunders—1974-1983
Peripheral Nerve Injuries book—Drafts and notes
Box 5 (oversized)
History of Neuropathology—1948—Proofs
Miscellaneous framed photographs
SERIES 2: Career of Webb Haymaker
Box 6
AFIP/ Army Medical Museum—1944-1961
Ames Research Center (NASA) Personnel File—1960s
Army Reserves Documentation—1930s-1950s
Curriculum Vitae and biography—1959
Government employment documents—1950s-1970s
Irradiation Research—Correspondence—Finley, Knox—1954-1965
Irradiation Research—Correspondence—Finley, Knox—1968
Irradiation Research—Correspondence—Rugh, Robert; Yakovlev, Paul—1965-1973
Irradiation Research—Grant Information—Finley, Knox—1966-1969
Miscellaneous papers and certificates—1950s-1980s
Task Force Furnace, Yuma, AZ—1947
SERIES 3: General Correspondence
Box 7
Correspondence—Aminoff, Leeds, and Schaumberg—1981-1982
Correspondence—Alvord, E.C.—1954-1960
Correspondence—Ash, James E.—1980s
Correspondence—Azcoaga, Juan D; Drake, Horatio—1967-1980
Correspondence—Baker, A.B.—1980-1983
Correspondence—Bargmann, Oksche, Fix—1960-1981
Correspondence—Behar, Albert—1982
Correspondence—Behnke, Albert R.—1981-1983
Correspondence—“Bishop Ernulphus” (NASA report) (cosmic rays)—1973-1975
Correspondence—Boshes, Louis D.—1977-1984
Correspondence—Brodal, A.—1971-1981
Correspondence—Ekhart, Walter; Hughes, Anne—1974-1978
Correspondence—Ellis, John—1980-1982
Correspondence—Fix, Jim—1971-1983
Correspondence—Founders Day, College of Charleston—1973-1980
Correspondence—Jokl, Ernst—1981-1982
Box 8
Correspondence—Kappers, J. Ariens—1981
Correspondence—Kuhlenbeck, Hartwig—1951-1982
Correspondence—Lee, Joseph—1970-1983
Correspondence—Lindberg, Richard—1970-1982
Correspondence—Medical University of South Carolina—1930; 1981-1983
Correspondence—Miscellaneous—1947-1983
Correspondence—Moore, Matthew—1978-1982
Correspondence—National Association of Women—1952
Correspondence—Sloper, John C.—1956-1983
Correspondence—Sunderland, Sidney—1951-1978
Box 9
Correspondence—Treanor, Walter—1979-1983
Correspondence—UCLA Neuroscience History Project—1978-1982
Correspondence—Vogel, F. Stephen—1974-1984
SERIES 4: Travel
Box 9
Army Official travel orders—1948-1957
Hawaii—visit to Niihau Island—1973
Pago Pago, American Somoa trip—October 1973
Somoa-Hawaii travel—1972-1973
Utah trip—Researching Marie Curie—1969-1971
IX International Congress of Neuropathology—Vienna, Austria—1982
SERIES 5: Other papers
Box 10
Haymaker, Webb—Scholarly articles
Haymaker on Robert Ley
"Why Mussolini Failed" and "Highlights of Duce's Career - Climaxed by His Execution" (author unknown)
Permissions for “The Space Environment in Biological Perspective”—1962
Christ, Jakob—unpublished manuscripts, figures
Ochoa, Jose—manuscripts
Spatz, Hugo—reprints
Series 6: Photographs and oversized materials
Box 11 (oversized)
Photographs, framed. Subjects unknown.
Box 12 (oversized)
Photographs, framed. Subjects unknown.
Box 13 (oversized)
Roll 1
MD Diploma, Medical College of South Carolina
Diploma, Sigma Kappa
Diploma, Phi Chi
Vesaliau Society
Roll 2
Baker Sanitorium, undated.
Gymnasium Carolopolitanum (Charleston High School), 1920
Rhode Island Medical License, 1933
Roll 3
National Board of Medical Examiners certification, 1931
The American Hospital of Paris, resident, 1932-1933
McGill University, Master of Science degree, 1935
Sociedade de Neurologia do Rio de Janeiro, 1953.
Roll 4
Pennsylvania Hospital resident pathologist, 1928-1929
Pennsylvania Hospital residency, 1929-1931
Pennsylvania Medical License, 1931
American Neurological Association, Active Member certificate, 1948
American Neurological Association meeting photograph, 1948
Class picture, Medical College of South Carolina, 1928
MC06
Retirement from AFIP, 1961—poster signed by colleagues
Hammond 21:7:8
Bound reprints of articles by Webb Haymaker
Created by Cathy Sorge, 2007.
