1927 January 3-June 30

Containers:
Box 187, Reel M Gun 1, Frame 113
Creator:
Rockefeller Foundation and Gunn, Selskar M. (1888-1944)
Scope and content:

This diary is a report of Selskar Gunn's interviews and correspondence with various members of the RF IHB program, medical officers seeking fellowships from the IHB, and reports on Public Health Progress in Europe in the post-war period. The diary also records Gunn's extensive travels throughout Southern and Eastern Europe and his extended trip to Turkey. In each of the nations he visited, Gunn often traveled to the capital city and/or second largest population center with senior program officers of the RF to inspect existing or underway public health institutes, sanitary engineering measures, medical schools, and nursing schools. Gunn's trip to Turkey includes a detailed description of the state of the RF's construction projects underway at Angora and his official visitation of Istanbul.

Physical description:
191 pages

Online content

Access and use

Parent restrictions:
Each set of officers' diaries is open for research 20 years after the date of the last diary entry.
Parent terms of access:
Rockefeller Foundation has title, copyright, and literary rights in the collection, in so far as it holds them. Rockefeller Archive Center has authority to grant permission to cite and publish archival material from the collection.
Location of this collection:
15 Dayton Avenue
Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591, United States
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