(AMERICAN MEDICINE)
An archive with nearly 100 photographs documenting Dr. William Mayo's and Dr. Franklin Martin's travels to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Honolulu.
Mayo (founder of the Mayo Clinic) and Martin (founder of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons and established the American College of Surgeons) traveled with J.M. Kahler who was the owner of Kahler Grand Hotel, the home of the first Mayo Clinic. Also in the party were other distinguished medical professionals, including Dr. Richard H. Harte (profesor of surgery, University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Richard R. Smith (representing the Gynecological Association of America), and Mr. J.H. Kahler (president of the Colonial Hospital Assocation), and their wives. The trip apparently began as a personal expedition, but became a series of meetings and conferences to discuss the work of the College and its hospital standardization program. Included are city and country views of Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji, as well as the hospitals, nurses, and medical students visited on the trip, and the travelers themselves. Also featured are individual and group photos made on the ship they traveled on. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 5½x3 inches (14x8 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, nearly all with captions identifying the location, and sometimes the subjects, in ink on verso. 1924Provenance: Phillip Hench (Noble Prize recipient for the invention of cortisone at Mayo Clinic); by descent; to the Present Owner. Hench married Mary Kahler daughter of J.M. Kahler (Kahler Grand Hotel), home of the first Mayo Clinic, and who was also on this trip.