Collection is open for research.
Gift of Frank Musgrave, September 2007 (Lib. Acc. 26339).
Oregon State Hospital collection, Coll 327, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Materials relating to the Oregon State Hospital, collected by Reta Rahn Musgrave when she was a nurse there. These include black and white photographs of the grounds, buildings, and staff, many of whom are identified. Other materials are: surgical department statistics on the types and number of surgeries, examinations, and other procedures performed in the 1938-1940 biennium; a 1940 inventory of surgical and operating room furniture and supplies, with costs; a reprint of an article on syphilis from the journal Northwest Medicine; and ephemera.
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