William Gilman Thompson autograph collection
Scope and Contents
Collection of autograph letters and photographs accumulated by Thompson, a physician.
Dates
- 1771-1924
Creator
- Thompson, W. Gilman (William Gilman), 1856-1927 (Collector)
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright status for collection materials is unknown, though much of the material in this collection is likely in the public domain. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the William G. Thompson estate, 1939.
Extent
3 Linear Feet (1 box, 1 folio)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Collection of autograph letters and photographs accumulated by Thompson, a physician.
Biographical / Historical
Physician; Ph.B., Yale, 1877; received his M.D. degree from Columbia in 1881; in 1885 won the Joseph Mather Smith prize for an essay on the valves of the heart; in 1887 became visiting physician of the New York Hospital until 1894, and of the Presbyterian Hospital until 1912; in 1887 became professor of physiology at the University of the City of New York, remaining until 1898; 1898-1916, professor of medicine at Cornell University Medical College.
- Aoki, Shūzō, 1844-1914
- Autographs
- Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
- Beeckman, Robert Livingston, 1866-1935
- Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913
- Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898
- Bolling, John Randolph
- Booth, Maud Ballington, 1865-1948
- Bright, John, 1811-1889
- Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
- Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922
- Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
- Bülow, Bernhard Ernst von, 1815-1879
- Carlisle, George William Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1802-1864
- Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917
- Clark, Edward Tracy, 1878-1935
- Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865
- Curtis, George William, 1824-1892
- Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920
- Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870
- Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939
- French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931
- Gilman, Daniel C. (Daniel Coit), 1831-1908
- Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898
- Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 1831-1902
- Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924
- Gorgas, William Crawford, 1854-1920
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
- Guggenheim, Daniel, 1856-1930
- Guyot, A. (Arnold), 1807-1884
- Hadley, Arthur Twining, 1856-1930
- Hammond, John Hays, 1855-1936
- Hammond, John Hays, 1888-1965
- Heiser, Victor G. (Victor George), 1873-1972
- Hobson, Richmond Pearson, 1870-1937
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
- Jacobi, A. (Abraham), 1830-1919
- Lepsius, Richard, 1810-1884
- Lin-Fu-Yeh
- Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
- Livingston, Robert Livingston, 1866-
- Mayo, William James, 1861-1939
- McAneny, George, 1869-1953
- McKinlay, Kenneth G.
- Mitchel, John Purroy, 1879-1918
- Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919
- Parkhurst, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1842-1933
- Payne, Oliver H. (Oliver Hazard), 1839-1917
- Pierrepont, Edwards, 1817-1892
- Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946
- Platt, Thomas Collier, 1833-1910
- Polk, William Mecklenburg, 1844-
- Rockefeller, John D., Jr. (John Davison), 1874-1960
- Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942
- Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906
- Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872
- Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of, 1801-1885
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
- Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881
- Stimson, Lewis Atterbury, 1844-1917
- Thompson, Joseph P. (Joseph Parrish), 1819-1879
- Van Name, Addison
- Viets, Roger, 1738-1811
- Virchow, Rudolf, 1821-1902
- Wagner, Cosima, 1837-1930
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
- Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934
- White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
- Woods, Arthur, 1870-1942
- Title
- Guide to the William Gilman Thompson Autograph Collection
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- compiled by Janet Elaine Gertz
- Date
- August 1981
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Created In Accordance With Manuscripts And Archives Processing Manual
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
Yale University Library
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven CT 06520-8240 US
(203) 432-1735
(203) 432-7441 (Fax)
beinecke.library@yale.edu
Location
Sterling Memorial Library
Room 147
120 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511