Child Growth and Development: Patient Files Information
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Krogman, Wilton Marion, 1903-1987
label: Collection Production place
content: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
label: Collection Repository
content: University of Pennsylvania
setName: label: See more items in
content: Wilton M. Krogman Center for Research in Child Growth and Development records, 1947-1989
unitdate: label: Date
content: bulk circa 1947- circa 1989
container: label: Container
content: Box 425-520
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-20, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged into twenty-five sub-series, which are largely arranged alphabetically by study. Records may be arranged by alphabetically by participants' surnames or numerically by participants' National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) number.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Access to the collection is restricted due to the presence of personally identifiable information (PII). Access is subject to approval by the Smithsonian Institution's Institutional Review Board (IRB). 

The series is currently stored at the Penn Museum Archives. Please contact the National Anthropological Archives for further information.

This series contains the records of patients who participated in a variety of growth studies, including orthodonic, cleft palate, sickle cell anemia, and cerebral palsy studies. Patients in this series vary in age (infant to elementary school age) and race. Select patients have files for their parents.  Records may include administrive papers, photographs, and participants' medical records in a variety of formats (paper, microfilm, and X-rays).