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Thelander (Hulda Evelyn) Papers

Owning Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

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Hulda Evelyn Thelander was born and raised in Little Falls, MN January 11, 1896. She received a B.A. (1922), and an M.A. from the University of Minnesota (1923), and an M.D. cum laude (1925) from the same institution. She did her internship at Children's Hospital in San Francisco, where she was to become chief of the department of pediatrics in 1951. During WWII she was a Lt. Commander in the Navy, retiring as Commander and serving at chief consultant for women veterans, Western Area. Dr. Thelander was also a consultant to the California State Department of Public Health, a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, and member of the American Board of Pediatrics (1934), of the Pediatric Society, the AMA, the Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Thelander founded the Child Development Center at Children's Hospital (1952) and conducted studies on brain-damaged children and general pediatric neurology. In 1971 she received a special citation from the Gold Headed Cane Society for having completed medical school a second time, at UCSF. The papers consist in large part of correspondence (much with friends and family members), diaries, memoirs, travel accounts, some medical manuscripts and research notes. MSS 89-67 View collection guide.

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80 items found in this collection

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African Trip
Albinism
American-Swedish Museum Auxiliary Award
Around the World
Awards
Biofeedback
Birth defects--genetics
Certificates
Child Development Center
Children Less Than Perfect
Cockaigne syndrome
Correspondence, 1963
Correspondence, 1963-64
Correspondence, 1964 (III)
Correspondence, 1965 (I)-(III)
Correspondence, 1966 (1)-(III)
Correspondence, 1967 (1)-(VI)
Correspondence, 1968
Correspondence, 1969
Correspondence, 1970
Correspondence, 1970
Correspondence, 1971 (I)
Correspondence, 1971 (II)
Correspondence, 1971 (III)
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