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Mallinckrodt, Edward, Jr. Foundation, Vertical File
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0.02 Linear Feet
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Administrative history
The Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation was established in 1953 by an initial $100,000 gift from Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. The Foundation really came into being upon the receipt of his $1,000,000 bequest in 1967 ($6.5 million in inflation adjusted dollars). While exercising its philanthropic mission, and without additional fund raising, the Foundation grew to a maximum size of nearly $60 million.
Since its founding, except for the transient participation of Dr. Mallinckrodt’s youngest son, George, the Foundation has been guided by a disinterested volunteer board, initially led by Dr. Shields Warren, of Boston, and consistently served by Mr. Oliver Langenberg, its longtime Chair. With this leadership over the years, a small band of volunteers has shepherded Edward Mallinckrodt’s legacy by tending to the foundation’s investments and allocating its biomedical grants and awards.
Source: http://www.emallinckrodtfoundation.org/HistoryEMF.html
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The Vertical File Collection is open and accessible for research.
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Item description, Reference Code, Bernard Becker Medical Library Archives, Washington University in St. Louis.
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- English
Scripts of the material
- Latin
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"Describing Archives: A Content Standard, Second Edition (DACS), 2013."
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