American Medical Center for Burma records
Language: eng
Number of pages: 9000
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Peace Corps (U.S.); Foreign relations; Nurses; Midwives and Nurses Training School (Namkhan, Burma); Namkham Hospital; Hospitals; Medicine; History
Description: Correspondence, subject files, administrative and financial records, magazines, clippings, maps, and other records relating chiefly to Namkhan Hospital and the Midwives and Nurses Training School at Namkhan, Burma, run by Dr. Gordon Stifler Seagrave, known as the "Burma surgeon."  Subjects include American foreign policy, Dr. Thomas A. Dooley, Peace Corps (U.S.), and the political situation in Burma.  Correspondents include Rothwell H. Brown, Fanny McConnell Ellison, John Scott Everton, David McKendree Key, Joseph F. Newhall, Ruth Newhall, Barbara Olmanson, Myron Donald Olmanson, Harold L. Oram, R.S. Radvin, Haldor Reinholt, John F. Rich, Howard P. Wilson, Gordon Stifler Seagrave, his wife, Marion Seagrave, and their son, Sterling Seagrave.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, American Medical Center for Burma, 1966-1967.

Gift, Weston Seagrave, 1967.

Gift, Esther N. Mertins, 1968.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

Organization incorporated in 1946.  Based in New York to support Gordon Stifler Seagrave and the Namkhan Hospital in Burma.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.