Brief
Overview of Collection, MC03
Name: Tinsley R. Harrison Papers
Dates: 1939-1978 (bulk 1966-1978)
Extent: 8.5 cubic feet
Historical Note: Tinsley Randolph Harrison was born in Talladega, Alabama,
on March 18, 1900, the son of Dr. W. Groce Harrison, Sr., and Louisa
(Bondurant) Harrison. In 1919 he earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, and then enrolled in the Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine where he received his M.D. degree in 1922. After a
residency at the Peter Bent Brigham
Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts,
in 1925 Dr. Harrison joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine. In 1941 Harrison helped organize the Bowman-Gray School of Medicine
Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and
in 1944 he helped organize the Southwestern
Medical School
in Dallas, Texas, serving as both chair of the medical
department and dean of the medical school. In 1950 he was recruited to the
Birmingham-based Medical Center of the University of Alabama
where he became chair of the Department of Medicine and Director of the
division of Cardiology. He also served a one-year acting deanship of the
Medical College of Alabama from 1950 until 1951. Dr. Harrison resigned as chair
of medicine in 1957 and as cardiology director in 1965. In 1964 Drs. Harrison
and Champ Lyons were named Distinguished Professors by The University of
Alabama Board of Trustees, the first such designations given to a member of the
Alabama
faculty. From 1945 until 1965, Dr. Harrsion also served as editor-in-chief of Principles
of Internal Medicine, a medical textbook which has been known as Harrison's
Principles of Internal Medicine for numerous years. After a lengthy
illness, Tinsley R. Harrison died in Birmingham,
on August 4, 1978.
Scope and Contents: Includes correspondence, notes and drafts of
numerous research papers and books, financial records, and other printed
materials.
Arrangement: Organized into six discrete series: 1. Correspondence;
2. Business, Health, and Education Disciplines Files; 3. Notes, Drafts, and
Manuscripts; 4. Subject Files; 5. Printed Mater; 6. Financial Records.
Accession Number: M92-01
Provenance: Materials originally donated to the Jefferson County
Medical Society/UAB Health Sciences Archives by Dr. Harrison's sons. In 1992 the materials were transferred to the
newly established UAB Archives.
Finding aid: Printed descriptive guide by William A. Harris available
in repository.
Access Points:
Dock, William.
Frommeyer, Walter B., d 1916-1979.
Harrison family.
Harrison, Tinsley Randolph, d 1900-1978.
Hill, S. Richardson, d b. 1923.
McGrath, Emily Harrison.
Medical colleges z Alabama z Birmingham.
University of Alabama. b Medical
College of Alabama.
University of Alabama
in Birmingham.
b School of Medicine.
Document Types:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Notes.
Location: Manuscript Stacks
Related Series: MC07, Tinsley R. Harrison Collection; MC08, Memoirs
of William Groce Harrison, Sr.; P3, Tinsley R. Harrison Photograph Collection
Physical Condition: Acid free folders, acid free boxes
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