TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Collection Summary
Index Terms
Administrative Information
Restrictions
Series Descriptions
Personal and Biographical
General Correspondence
Subject and Research Files
Addresses and Personal Works
Clippings
|
Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division
Processed by HMD Staff
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Dan Jenkins
| | |
|
|
| Collection Number: | MS C 279 |
| Creator | Kolb, Lawrence, 1881-1972 |
| Title | Lawrence Kolb Papers
|
| Dates: | 1912-1972 |
| Quantity: | 14 MS. boxes |
| Abstract: | Dr. Lawrence Kolb was a pioneer in the medical approach to narcotics addiction treatment and in public health research and treatment of mental illness. He was one of the first to advocate treating drug addicts as patients, not criminals. The collection deals chiefly with the subjects of drug addiction, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and mental health. |
Dr. Lawrence Kolb was a pioneer in the medical approach to narcotics addiction treatment and in public health research and treatment of mental illness. He was born in Galesville, Md., Feb. 20, 1881, and graduated from the University of Maryland medical school in 1908. The next year he was commissioned an Assistant Surgeon in the Public Health Service. From 1913 to 1919, he was stationed at the Ellis Island, N.Y. Immigration Station specializing in the mental disease and illness of incoming aliens. During this same period, he also developed a program for the study and treatment of post-World War I patients suffering from war-caused neuroses. In 1923, Dr. Kolb came to Washington, D.C. and spent five years studying drug addiction and its relationship to crime. He was one of the first to advocate treating drug addicts as patients, not criminals. By 1934, Dr. Kolb was an international expert in the study of psychiatry and narcotics, and was appointed head of the PHS Hospital in Lexington, KY. to lead the U.S. government's first experimental unit for treating drug addicts. His final duty station was as Chief of the PHS Mental Hygiene Division from 1938-1944. He was promoted to Assistant Surgeon General in 1942. His work there, along with that of Dr. Thomas Parran, led to the creation of the National Institute for Mental Health in 1946.
Return to the Table of Contents
Correspondence, reports, documents clippings, reprints and photos deal chiefly with the subjects of drug addiction, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and mental health. Among the correspondents are Clifford W. Beers, Rupert Blue, F. A. Carmelia, Hugh S. Cumming, Robert H. Felix, Richmond P. Hobson, Adolph Meyer, W. F. Ossenfort, Thomas Parran, C. C. Pierce, Carleton Simon, Walter L. Treadway, and Lloyd H. Ziegler.
Return to the Table of Contents
Restrictions
Restrictions
Collection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.
Copyright
Copyright to the collection was transferred to the public domain. See the Reference Staff for details regarding rights. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.
Return to the Table of Contents
| | |
|
|
| These terms are indexed in the National Library of Medicine's on-line catalog LocatorPlus. Researchers wishing to find related materials should search the catalog using these terms. |
| MeSH Subjects |
| | Mental Health |
| | Pharmaceutical Preparations |
| | Public Health |
| | Social Medicine |
Return to the Table of Contents
Kolb, Lawrence. Lawrence Kolb Papers. 1912-1972. Located in: Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.; MS C 279.
Gift of Lawrence C. Kolb, 1974.
Return to the Table of Contents
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| |
Personal and Biographical
|
| Box |
| 1 | | Biographical information |
| 1 | | Personal materials |
| 1 | | Printed matter |
| 1 | | Photographs |
| | | See Map Case for 1 oversize photograph |
| 1 | | Lawrence C. Kolb material (son of Dr. Kolb) |
| 1 | | Correspondence and orders, 1909-1915 |
| 1 | | Foreign orders, 1928-1931 |
| 1 | | Foreign stations, 1929-1932 |
| 2 | | Foreign stations, 1931-1932 |
| 2 | | Correspondence and orders, 1934-1938 |
| 2 | | U.S. Public Health Service papers, 1944-1963 |
Return to the Table of Contents
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| |
General Correspondence
|
| Box |
| 2 | | A - Cz |
| 3 | | Cumming - Ku |
| 4 | | Lak - Sa |
| 5 | | Simon - Wy |
| 6 | | Y - Z |
Return to the Table of Contents
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| |
Subject and Research Files
|
| Box |
| 6 | | APA - AMA Juvenile Delinquency Hearings, 1956 |
| 6 | | California Department of Mental Hygiene, 1949 |
| 6 | | Copdoger (synthetic morphine), 1927 |
| 6 | | Drug addiction, 1928-1937 |
| 6 | | Drug addiction committee, 1963 |
| 6 | | Drug addiction - crime survey, 1956 |
| 6 | | Drug habit - questionnaire, 1928 |
| 6 | | Drug symposium (AFIP), 1960 |
| 6 | | England (narcotics), 1955-1967 |
| 6 | | Eugenics congress, 1932-1933 |
| 6 | | Foreign - schooling and literacy data |
| 6 | | Foreign Policy Association (re: opium traffic conference), 1924 |
| 7 | | German immigrants (intelligence tests), 1930s |
| 7 | | Harrison law - legislation and documents |
| 7 | | Juvenile delinquency |
| 7 | | Kentucky Psychiatric Association |
| 7 | | Legal cases - Dr. Frank N. Ogden, 1956 |
| 7 | | Marijuana |
| 7 | | Narcotics case histories, 1924-1928 |
| 7 | | Narcotic references |
| 7 | | National Academy of Sciences - Drug Addicition Committee |
| 7 | | National Association for Mental Health, 1951-1959 |
| 7 | | National Committee for Mental Hygiene, 1935-1938 |
| 7 | | Neuropsychiatric Institute |
| 7 | | Survey - "The Public Health Aspects of Alcoholism", 1941 |
| 8 | | Survey - "The Public Health Aspects of Alcoholism", 1941 |
| 8 | | Symposium on the History of Narcotic Drug Addiciton problems, 1958 |
| 8 | | White House Conference - narcotic and drug abuse, 1962 |
| 8 | | Yale Laboratories of primate biology |
Return to the Table of Contents
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| |
Addresses and Personal Works
|
| Box |
| 8 | | Dr. Kolb - addresses, statements, reprints, etc., 1925-1964 |
| 8 | | Dr. Kolb, undated |
| 9 | | Dr. Kolb - publications |
| 9 | | Correspondence re: Dr. Kolb's publications, 1962-1963 |
| 9 | | Book Reviews re: Dr. Kolb's Book, 1963-1965 |
Return to the Table of Contents
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| |
Clippings
|
| Box |
| 9 | | Narcotic raids, beatniks |
| 9 | | Entrapments, 1957-1963 |
| 9 | | Juvenile delinquents and narcotics |
| 9 | | Legislation, 1963-1964 |
| 9 | | Liberal views on narcotics, 1955-1960 |
| 9 | | Narcotics |
| 9 | | Miscellaneous |
| 10 | | Reprints (various authors), 1909-1936 |
| 11 | | Reprints (various authors), 1937-1957 |
| 12 | | Reprints (various authors), 1958-1969 |
| 12 | | Reports, proceedings, and typescripts, 1901-1934 |
| 13 | | Reports, proceedings, and typescripts, 1934-1965 |
| 14 | | Reports, proceedings, and typescripts, 1961-1962, undated |
| 14 | | Miscellaneous clippings and printed matter |
Return to the Table of Contents
Return to List of Manuscript Collections and Finding Aids
|
Printer-friendly Version