Archives & Personal Papers Collections

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The Archives and Manuscripts collection draws from NLM’s archival personal papers and organizational record collections. Commonly referred to as "historical records," they represent unpublished, primary source materials created or received and accumulated by a person, business, or organization in the normal course of conducting their affairs that contain information of enduring value. NLM Archival collections document predominantly 20th and 21st century American medical practitioners, biomedical scientists, public health practitioners, and researchers and health policy planners.

Subject strengths include:

  • • Public health and health policy
  • • HIV/AIDS
  • • Military medicine
  • • Molecular biology

Archives and Manuscript collections are digitized in-whole minimally at the folder level if not in their entirety. Currently, only paper-based materials are available digitally via NLM Digital Collections. Intentionally unscanned contents are denoted by image targets. Personally Identifiable Information such as social security numbers and personal home addresses/phone numbers are redacted where found. Personally Identifiable Health Information is also redacted.

Archives and Manuscript collections are structured using each collection’s finding aid – users should consult the physical collection’s finding aid to determine any gaps between the physical and digitized contents.

Leonidas Berry reminiscences album contents, 1991
Leonidas Berry reminiscences album contents, 1991
Official medical bulletins relating to the health of U.S. President James Garfield, July 6- August 19, 1881
Official medical bulletins relating to the health of U.S. President James Garfield, July 6- August 19, 1881
Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel (1973)
Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel (1973)