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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Sir William Osler Portrait by Seymour Thomas, and other Osler-Related Papers, 1946-1986

Collection number:
181

Creator:
Belt, Elmer, M.D. and Goodwin, William E., M.D.

Extent:
0.5 linear feet
(1 document box)

Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division

Los Angeles, California 90095-1490

Abstract:
From the original Osler portrait he had painted and exhibited in 1909, the prominent American portraitist S. Seymour Thomas also painted a replica. Elmer Belt, M.D., instrumental in the founding of the UCLA School of Medicine and its staunch supporter, provided the initiative to raise funds for purchase of this replica and arranged its presentation to the UCLA School of Medicine by Thomas at the August 1951 opening ceremony of the new school. This collection consists of documents about the original portrait, and the acquisition and presentation of the replica hung at UCLA. There is also one folder of Osleriana assembled by Elmer Belt and letters to and from him and Willard Goodwin, M.D., Belt's nephew, who inherited the papers and gave them to the UCLA Biomedical Library.

Physical location:
Department of History and Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles. The portrait is now displayed in the History Department's reading room.
Collection materials in English

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