ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

This dataset represents a group of paper records (a "series") within the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Developent records, 1918-2015 (inclusive), 1930-1989 (bulk), which can be accessed on-site at the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. The series consists primarily of scientific paper reprints and photocopies, newspaper and journal clippings, manuscript drafts, and bibliographies of publications by staff members of the Harvard School of Public Health Department of Maternal and Child Health and Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development.

Topics include various areas of maternal and child health, including: growth and development; anthropometric measurements; physical characteristics; illness; diet and nutrition; social functioning; intelligence and mental health; menstruation; reproduction; infant mortality; education; and pediatric health services. Series also occasionally includes: raw, analyzed, summarized, and coded research data; photographic prints and negatives of charts, figures, and images prepared for publication; publication correspondence; and presentation lantern slides. Frequent authors include Catherine S. Berkey (born 1951), Bertha S. Burke (born circa 1897), Ruth M. Butler (1917-2007), Johanna T. Dwyer, Jane D. Gardner (born 1939), Robert B. Reed (1917-1987), Elizabeth Slater, Harold Coe Stuart (1891-1976), and Isabelle Valadian (born 1920), among numerous others. Some papers are in Russian and Spanish.

Attached to the "Manuscript Drafts and Publications, 1918-2000" dataset is a file, digitized from its original paper copy, that serves as an example of the records that may be found in the series. Additional data and associated records are accessible onsite at the Center for the History of Medicine per the conditions governing access described below.

Conditions Governing Access to Original Collection Materials: The series represented by this dataset includes student information that is restricted for 80 years from the date of record creation, longitudinal patient information that is restricted for 80 years from the most recently dated records in the collection, and Harvard University records that are restricted for 50 years from the date of record creation. Researchers should contact Public Services for more information.

The Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development records were processed with grant funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as awarded and administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in 2016. An online finding aid to the collection may be accessed here: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.Count:med00211