Our Medical Humanities collections include letters documenting yellow fever to the materials from the first Secreatry of Health, Education, and Welfare, Oveta Culp Hobby. 

Colonel Cyrus Burnet Smith U.S. Civil War papers

This collection contains photographs of Dr. Cyrus Burnet Smith.

Creosote Contamination Archive

A collection of documents related to the creosote contamination in Houston's Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens.

Dr. John McNeill Stewart medical log

This collection contains the medical record book kept by Brazoria physician John McNeill Stewart from November 1836 to November 1837.

Kezia Payne DePelchin Yellow fever epidemic letters

This collection consists of a bound volume of letters documenting Kezia Payne DePelchin experiences as a nurse during the Yellow fever epidemic of 1878.

The oH Project collection: Oral Histories of HIV/AIDS in Houston, Harris County, and Southeast Texas

This collection consists of transcripts of oral histories chronicling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southeast Texas.

Oveta Culp Hobby papers

This collection consists of photographs, interviews, correspondence, and other documents recounting Oveta Culp Hobby's life.

Rice University Medical Humanities Research Institute oral histories

This collection includes oral histories conducted by Rice University students with medical professionals.

W.G. Jameson letter

This collection consists of a letter to Dr. J.R. Moore regarding the medical history of an ill patient.