Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 277

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(MEDICINE--VETERINARY.) Papers of pioneering veterinarian Jane Hinton. Hundreds of items, 1.5 linear feet; condition varies. Various places, 1919-1992
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Jane Hinton (1919-2003) was one of the first two Black women in the nation to become a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. She was born in Boston; her father William Augustus Hinton was the son of former slaves who became a nationally significant bacteriologist and Harvard professor. She received her bachelor degree from Simmons College, and then as a microbiologist was a developer of the Mueller-Hinton agar still used in laboratories today. During World War Two, she served in the Army hospital at Camp Huachuca in Arizona. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1949, and then practiced in Canton, MA before becoming a federal livestock disease investigator. This collection covers her childhood, education, and career, including:

The partly printed "Our Baby" book documenting Hinton's infancy, kept by her parents. Includes 17 photographs pasted in or laid in, plus 6 congratulation letters from friends, one of them from noted educator Horace Bumstead. 1919-1929

Scrapbook of clippings relating to her prep school (the Montpelier Seminary) and her hometown of Canton, MA, 1935-1936.

Folder of personal correspondence, including two postcards to her parents from the Montpelier Seminary, 1933; and two letters from a French friend, 1935-1936.

Her Simmons College thesis titled "A Public Health Survey of Canton, Massachusetts." [4], 183 manuscript pages with dozens of printed items laid down or inserted. May 1939.

Certificates including: Montpelier Seminary diploma, 1935; Simmons College Bachelor of Science diploma, 1939; University of Pennsylvania veterinary diploma, signed by President Harold Stassen, 1949; Massachusetts veterinary license, 20 July 1949; New Hampshire veterinary license, 22 April 1952; plaque received from the University of Pennsylvania upon her 50th reunion, 1999.

Pair of scrapbooks from her service at Fort Huachuca. One is a photo album with 93 images of the fort and its soldiers. They are largely uncaptioned but some are captioned on verso. Several snapshots show Hinton; laid in is a folded panorama of the men in the fort's medical department, neatly keyed and captioned on verso. The other album contains mostly news clippings about the fort and its units. Some other ephemera is included, such as "Huachuca," a piece of illustrated sheet music composed by Captain Joe Jordan; an issue of the 92nd Infantry Buffalo newsletter; and the station hospital's 1942 Thanksgiving and Christmas menus.

Small box of more than 100 World War Two-era unit patches, including 57 of the distinctive green and black buffalo patches from the 92nd Infantry Division, an African-American unit which trained at Huachuca.

Her University of Pennsylvania veterinary school yearbook, "The 1949 Scalpel."

Folder of professional papers, including 18 slides on animal diseases from the USDA, and her controlled substance registration certificate from 1974.

Folder on her distinguished father William A. Hinton, 1958-1992.

Packet of genealogical information and reminiscences compiled for "The Hawes Family Reunion . . . Grandma was 3 and Grandpa was 12 when the Emancipation Proclamation Was Signed." 24 pages. Traces the descendants of Jane Hinton's maternal grandparents. Atlanta, GA, August 1975.

Folder on H Inc., a corporation formed to manage family farmland. The surviving heirs of her Hawes grandparents sold their shares in the 350 acres of Georgia land to the corporation in 1968. Including deeds, annual financial statements, and two long letters from family members concerning the company, 1968-1980.

A worn salesman's sample copy of "The Devotional and Practical Polyglott Bible" (Hartford, CT: S.S. Scranton, 1867), with 16 tintype photos laid in, and two pages of manuscript subscriber notes from Peru, Indiana--connection to the Hinton family unknown.

34 duplicate copies of the "1864" issue of "Black Chronicle," a 1971 faux-newspaper with articles on Black participation in the Civil War.

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