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Archive containing more than 200 items that track the life and preserve the memory of University of Virginia graduate Dr. Thomas Brown McClintic, who sacrificed his life in the warfare against disease, including approx. 100 photographs, over 100pp of official medical service correspondence, and a rare Marine Hospital Service Telegraphic Code Book. Dr. Thomas Brown McClintic was born on December 27, 1872 in Bath County, VA. He was the son of William Stephen McClintic (1840-1892), a Confederate soldier and farmer, and Hettie Jane Montgomery McClintic (1848-1910). He received his doctor's degree at the University of Virginia in 1896. After an extended service in the hospitals of New York City, McClintic entered the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, a unique and early mechanism to provide the first publicly funded health care and disease prevention federal agency in the United States. The Marine Hospital Service was also assigned responsibility for the medical inspection of arriving immigrants. McClintic had extensive service on army transports and in domestic quarantine; was engaged in yellow fever quarantine work in Tampico, Mexico, in 1904; was on duty at the Marine Hospital at San Francisco at the time of the earthquake; was medical officer of the Revenue Cutter McCulloch on service in Alaskan waters; and was later sent to the Philippines, where he served as quarantine officer at Manila. (Information obtained from the University of Virginia's Tribute to their Alumnus.) In 1911, McClintic was sent to investigate and combat an epidemic of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Montana. Two years later, his work was highly successful and nearing completion. In March 1912, Dr. McClintic married Theresa Drexel of Washington DC, and soon thereafter returned to his station at Victor, Montana, to be in readiness for the tick season. In midsummer he was taken sick with the disease which claimed his life on August 13, 1912. This archive features approx. 100 photographs documenting McClintic's life and experiences, with many captioned in period ink, ranging in size from 2.75 x 3.75 in. to 8 x 10 in. The majority of the photographs (approx. 65) were taken during the Spanish American War, with subject matter ranging from troops lining up for rations aboard the USS McClellan to loading horses on a ship in Santiago de Cuba, along with a large number of views of ships at sea, including the USS Texas, USS Indiana, the Jamestown, a "Torpedo Boat Destroyer," the Kaiser Wilhelm, many showing officers and sailors aboard. This portion of the collection also includes photographs of the people, animals, and landmarks of Puerto Rico and Santiago de Cuba. Accompanied by the following highlighted photographs: UVA glee club, including McClintic, ca 1890s; at least 4 formal portraits of McClintic, one taken during the Philippine Insurrection in Manila, while he was in the Marine Hospital Service; 4 photographs of Marine Hospital Officers in uniform, one signed by ten officers including McClintic; signed photograph of Surgeon General Walter Wyman and Tuberculosis expert Gotthold Pannwitz; early X-ray photograph of an apparent bullet lodged in a patient's hand, ca 1890s; and much more. The archive also features over 100pp of official correspondence written to or involving McClintic, comprised of both telegraphs and typed letters signed dating from 1898-1907. Topics include: sending smallpox vaccine virus; Yellow Fever quarantine regulations; quarantine stations at Savannah, GA, Ft. Monroe, VA, Cape Charles, and Cape Fear; formation of the Yellow Fever Institute; diagnosing smallpox; disinfecting vessels sailing from Vera Cruz with Sulphur Dioxide gas; procedures for contaminated vessels traveling to Panama; neutrality and the impending war between Russia and Japan; detailed regulations to prevent the spread of yellow fever; McClintic to duty at Tampico, Mexico to enforce quarantine laws; McClintic sent to diagnose and fight a smallpox epidemic in Berkeley