A Guide to the Armistead Page Booker Papers, 1943-1990 MS.32 MS-32

A Guide to the Armistead Page Booker Papers, 1943-1990 MS.32

Collection Number MS-32

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
1300 Jefferson Park Avenue
P.O. Box 800722
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0722
mailto:hsl-historical@virginia.edu
URL: https://www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Repository

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Identification

MS.32

Title

Armistead Page Booker papers 1943-1990

URL:

https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/117

Quantity

.5 Linear Feet

Quantity

Language

English

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Use

There are no restrictions.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to research.

Preferred Citation

Armistead Page Booker Papers, #MS-32, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Sally Cary Booker, the daughter of Armistead Page Booker, donated the material in 2002.

Armistead Page Booker graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1943. He was an Intern on Medicine at UVa in 1943 and completed two years as an Assistant Resident and Resident on Pediatrics in 1947. Following his residency he became a Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics at the University of Virginia, a position he held until he became a Clinical Assistant Professor in Pediatrics in the 1965-66 school year. Named an Associate Professor in 1973-74, he served in this capacity until 1984-85. Dr. Booker was active in the Albemarle County Medical Society and was Secretary-Treasurer in 1952 and 1953, Vice-President in 1967, and President in 1968.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes diplomas earned by Booker, several photographs, and two drafts of papers giving a brief history of the Albemarle County Medical Society with information about various Charlottesville physicians and medical institutions, and a manuscript about Dr. Lawrence Thomas Royster.

Arrangement

The material is arranged chronologically.

General

Processed by:: Historical Collections Staff

Container List

Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 001

Armistead Page Booker diploma

1943 December 31

1 diploma

Scope and Contents

Diploma awarded by UVa Hospital for Intern on Medicine.

Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 002

Armistead Page Booker diploma

1949 June 30

1 diploma

Scope and Contents

Diploma awarded by UVa Hospital for Assistant Resident and Resident on Pediatrics.

Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 003

Armistead Page Booker diploma

1953 October 1

1 diploma

Scope and Contents

Diploma awarded by Virginia Pediatric Society.

Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 004

Armistead Page Booker diploma

1965 September 17

1 diploma

Scope and Contents

Diploma awarded by UVa School of Medicine for being a charter member of the Advisory Committee.

Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 005

Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia

1977 June 2

1 B

Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 006

"The Albemarle County Medical Society: A History from the Department of Pediatrics..." by Armistead P. Booker

1982 August

1 AM, 13 pp.; 1 B

Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 007

Department of Pediatrics memo

1982 October 22

1 memo, 2 pp.

Scope and Contents

Memo regards proposed changes for Medical Center medical records.

Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 008

"A History of the Albemarle County Medical Society" by Armistead P. Booker, Department of Pediatrics

1982 November

1 TM with AN, 64 pp.; 2 photocopied journal excerpts; 1 AN, 2 pp.

Scope and Contents

The history includes information about the UVa Infirmary, Charlottesville General Hospital, Piedmont Hospital, the University Dispensary, the Martha Jefferson Sanatorium and Hospital, University of Virginia Hospital, Blue Ridge Sanatorium, the Health Department, the Children's Rehabilitation Center, a list of Albemarle County physicians for the year 1850, and a description of the Experimental Medical Care Review Organizaion (EMCRO). Booker writes about a number of prominent physicians, including, James Lawrence Cabell, John Staige Davis (1824-85), James Edgar Chancellor, Robert William Nelson, William Beverly Towles, William Cecil Dabney, Paul Brandon Barringer, John Staige Davis (1866-1933), Harvey Earnest Jordan, Hugh Thomas Nelson, Edward May Magruder, Halstead Shipman Hedges, Thomas Henry Daniel, Stephen Hurt Watts, William Hall Goodwin, James Carroll Flippin, Staige Davis Blackford, Byrd Stuart Leavell, Henry Bearden Mulholland, Vincent William Archer, James Robert Cash, David Cole Wilson, McLemore Birdsong, and Wilmer Howard Paine.

Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 009

Department of Pediatrics memo and minutes

1982 December 17

1 memo, 1 p.; 1 TD, 3pp.

Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 010

Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

1982

1 TD, 9 pp.

Scope and Contents

Members and research interests.

Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 011

"Midway building housed schools, hotel, Confederate hospital in past." The Observer, July 19-25 and "A Brief History of Historic First Baptist Church on Its Anniversary." Charlottesville-Albemarle Tribune, December 8, 1988

1988, [1990]

2 newspaper clippings

Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 012

Lawrence Thomas Royster, M.D., 1874-1953

undated

1 AM, 16 pp.