GB 0120 MSS.7481-7490 - Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection

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The bulk of this material appears to have been brought together by Dr. Townsend W. Thorndike (fl. 1908-1915) of Boston, Massachusetts, who was an associate member of the Arctic Club of America and a collector of material relating to exploration, chiefly in the Arctic.

GB 0120 MSS.7481-7490 1746-1920 Collection (fonds) 10 items Thorndike , Townsend W , 1872-1929 , dermatologist

Born, 1872; graduated from Harvard Medical School,1902; assistant visiting physician for diseases of the skin in the Boston City Hospital, 1906; taught dermatology at Tufts Medical School, 1917; Professor of Dermatology, Tufts Medical School, 1929-1929; founder member and first Vice President of the New England Dermatological Society; died, 1929.

The bulk of this material appears to have been brought together by Dr. Townsend W. Thorndike (fl. 1908-1915) of Boston, Massachusetts, who was an associate member of the Arctic Club of America and a collector of material relating to exploration, chiefly in the Arctic.

The details of how the material collected by Dr. Thorndike was acquired by Henry Wellcome or his successors are not known. Other items related to the theme of Arctic exploration appear to have been acquired from other sources and added to the collection whilst it was in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum stores.

Papers collected by Townsend W Thorndike relating to exploration, chiefly in the Arctic including manuscript material, cuttings from periodicals and printed ephemera, 1746-1920.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

English

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Prints, photographs and other illustrative items have been transferred to the Wellcome Institute's Iconographic Collections and a few pamphlets to the Institute Library's main collection of published material. Further papers relating to some of the Polar explorers and travellers documented here can be found in MS.7328.

Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Jan 2009 Polar regions Ethnic groups Indigenous populations Geography Geographical exploration Antarctica Arctic Thorndike , Townsend W , 1872-1929 , dermatologist Climatic zones

The details of how the material collected by Dr. Thorndike was acquired by Henry Wellcome or his successors are not known. Other items related to the theme of Arctic exploration appear to have been acquired from other sources and added to the collection whilst it was in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum stores.

Papers collected by Townsend W Thorndike relating to exploration, chiefly in the Arctic including manuscript material, cuttings from periodicals and printed ephemera, 1746-1920.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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English

Prints, photographs and other illustrative items have been transferred to the Wellcome Institute's Iconographic Collections and a few pamphlets to the Institute Library's main collection of published material. Further papers relating to some of the Polar explorers and travellers documented here can be found in MS.7328.

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English