TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Contents
Organization
Restrictions
Index Terms
Related Material
Administrative Information
Description of Series
Personal
Professional
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Joseph Alvin Chatman:
An Inventory of His Papers, 1911-1966 and undated, at the
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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| Creator | Chatman, J. A. (Joseph Alvin), 1901-1967 |
| Title: | Joseph Alvin Chatman Papers,
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| Dates: | 1911-1966 and undated |
| Abstract: | The collection
consists of the personal and professional papers of Joseph Alvin (J. A.)
Chatman. |
| Collection # | S175.1 |
| Quantity: | 3 boxes (2.3 linear
feet) |
| Language | English. |
| Repository: | Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University |
A physician and civic leader, Joseph Alvin Chatman was born in 1901 in
Navasota, Texas. He received his M.D. from Meharry Medical College in 1926 and
practiced in Mexia, Teague, Groesbeck, and Wortham, Texas. In 1935, he opened
Chatman Hospital for Negroes in Mexia, Texas, and, in 1939, moved to Lubbock,
Texas, and opened the Chatman Hospital and Clinic (1945) and Jolyne Nursing
Home (1952). He was active in the Lone Star State Medical, Dental, and
Pharmaceutical Association, and the Southeast Lubbock Development Corporation.
Chatman died in 1967 in Lubbock, Texas.
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Includes correspondence, financial and legal material, printed
material, scrapbook material, photographs, and literary productions concerning
Dr. J. A. Chatman's personal and professional activities as a physician in
Lubbock, Texas. The collection bulks (1911- 1962) with materials on the Lone
Star State Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association, which includes
biographies of African-American doctors in Texas (1941-1962).
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Organization
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| The collection is organized into the following series: Personal and
Professional. |
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Access Restrictions
Open for research
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| The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally
developed. |
| Subjects (Persons) |
| | Chatman, J. A. (Joseph Alvin), 1901-1967 |
| Subjects (Organizations) |
| | Lone Star State Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association |
| | Chatman Hospital (Lubbock, Tex.) |
| Subjects |
| | African American physicians--Texas--History |
| | African Americans--Texas--History |
| | African Americans--Medical care--History |
| | Physicians--Texas--History |
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For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections:
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- John A. Buesseler Papers, 1963-1997 and undated
- J. Elwood Brewer, Papers, 1903-1913
- Harold Chatman oral history [sound recording], 1980
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Joseph Alvin Papers, 1911-1966 and undated, Southwest
Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,
Texas
Collection accession #(s):
None for the record.
Gifts, 1975
Abel Ramirez, 2005
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Personal
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 1 | | Correspondence,
1947-1963 |
| 2 | | Correspondence,
1964-1966 and
undated |
| 3 | | Financial Material,
1945-1965 and
undated |
| 4 | | Investments,
1958-1965 and
undated |
| 5 | | Legal Documents,
1937-1966 |
| 6 | | Literary Production,
undated |
| 7 | | Miscellaneous,
1959 and
undated |
| 8 | | News clippings,
1957-1966 and undated
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| 9 | | Photographs,
1951 and
undated |
| 10 | | Scrapbooks,
undated |
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Professional
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 11 | | Medical Practice,
1951-1958 |
| 12 | | Medical Practice,
1958-1966 and undated
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| 13 | | Post Graduate Assembly of Negro Physicians in Texas,
1937-1938 |
| 14 | | Scrapbook Material,
1935-1944 and
undated |
| 15 | | White House Conference,
1959-1960 and
undated |
| | | Lone Star State Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical
Association |
| box | folder |
| 1 | 16 | | | Kerrville State Sanatorium,
1930-1938 and
undated |
| 17 | | | Literary Production,
1958-1961 and undated
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| 18 | | | Literary Production,
1911-1959 and
undated |
| 19 | | | Recognition by State Medical Association,
1939-1940 and
undated |
| box | folder |
| 2 | 1 | | | Biographical Sketches, A-C,
1941-1962 and
undated |
| 2 | | | Biographical Sketches, D-G,
1941-1962 and undated
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| 3 | | | Biographical Sketches, H-Mc,
1941-1962 and undated
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| 4 | | | Biographical Sketches, M-R,
1941-1962 and undated
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| box | folder |
| 3 | 1 | | | Biographical Sketches, S-W,
1941-1962 and
undated |
| 2 | | | Biographical Sketches, W-Z,
1941-1962 and undated
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