Preliminary Inventory to the Crawford F. Sams Papers, 1923-1979.
Processed by Hoover Institution Archives Staff; machine-readable finding aid created by
James Ryan.
Hoover Institution Archives
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Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Preliminary Inventory to the Crawford F. Sams Papers, 1923-1979.
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Hoover Institution Archives
- Stanford University
- Stanford, California 94305-6010
- Phone: (650) 723-3563
- Fax: (650) 725-3445
- Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu
- Processed by:
- Hoover Institution Archives Staff
- Encoded by:
- James Ryan.
© 1998 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Crawford F. Sams Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1923-1979
Collection number: 79066
Creator:
Sams, Crawford F.
Collection Size:
15 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 11 envelopes, 1 oversize folder
8.3 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, orders, speeches and writings, research data, printed matter, certificates, and photographs, relating to U.S.
military medical activities in the Middle East during World War II and in the Korean War, to Allied public health activities
in occupied Japan, and to scientific research on effects of radiation.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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Collection open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Crawford F. Sams Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1979.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Access Points
United States. Army--Officers.
United States. Army Medical Service.
Health.
Korean War, 1950-1953--Medical and sanitary affairs.
Medicine, Military--United States.
Public health--Japan.
Radiation.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
World War, 1939-1945--Middle East.
Japan.
Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
Middle East.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Armed Forces.
Container List
Box 1.
"Medic," autobiography of Crawford F. Sams
Box 2.
Biographical sketch of Crawford F. Sams
"The Contribution of General Crawford F. Sams to the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1951," by Ann Crusa Wyman, M.A. thesis
Miscellaneous magazine issues
"The Impact of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Military Medical Operations," by Crawford F. Sams
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Box 3.
"The Middle East Countries," by Crawford F. Sams, a section of a U.S. Army Medical Service history of medical activities in
World War II
Printed matter and clippings on public health activities in Japan
Speeches and papers by Crawford F. Sams
"Are We Using All Our Weapons against Tuberculosis?" by Crawford F. Sams
1943 August - 1952 October
Box 5.
1952 November - 1954 March
Box 8.
Public Health and Welfare in Japan, series of printed reports issued by Public Health and Welfare Section, General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied
Powers
Box 9-15.
Radiation research files. Reports, data, notes, grant proposals, etc.
Charts of public health statistics in Japan
Yasuyori Tamba,
Ishimpo, collotyped copy of section of oldest surviving Japanese medical text (984 A.D.)
79066 - 10.A-V
Photographs
Physical Description: 919 photographs / 11 envelopes, 1 oversize envelope
A
175 prints of people and scenes in the Middle East.
1942-1943
m*B
7 prints of groups of U.S. Army officers.
undated
C-D, m*B
116 prints of soldiers, civilians, and military and medical scenes in the Panama Canal Zone before World War II, and in the
U.S. and occupied Japan after the war.
undated
E-K, mL, m*B
621 prints of people, street scenes and military and medical scenes in occupied Japan after World War II.
undated
