Films, Videos & Photos
Save A Day, a 1941 World War II-era film highlighting America’s industrial army and its contribution to the war effort.
Reward Unlimited, a 1944 short film dramatizing the need for cadet nurses during World War II.
Guardians of Our Country’s Health, U.S. Quarantine Service, Frith Films, 1950.
A Century of Service with Distinction, Part 1. Commissioned Corps Centennial, February, 1989.
A Century of Service with Distinction, Part 2. Commissioned Corps Centennial, February, 1989.
Plague at the Golden Gate. Prejudice Spread Faster Than the Pandemic. Public Broadcasting Service, American Experience, 2022.
Invisible Corps, Christopher Productions, 2023.
Government Publications
The Ship’s Medicine Chest and First Aid at Sea. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2003.
A Profile of the US Public Health Service, 1798-1948 by Bess Furman. U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 1973.
Annual Reports of the Surgeon General of the United States 1877-1972. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office.
Public Health Reports, 1878-present.
Images From The History of The Public Health Service by Ramunas Kondratas. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 1994.
The United States Public Health Service as a Career. United States Government Printing Office, 1930.
USPHS Centennial Gala Program, January 6 1989.
Books & Articles
A Cruise on the U.S. Practice Ship S. P. Chase by Walter Wyman, M.D. Grafton Press, New York, 1910.
The Lone Scout: A Tale of the United States Public Health Service by Edward Champe Carter. Cornhill Company, 1920.
For the Relief of the Sick and Disabled. The U.S. Public Health Service Hospital at Boston, 1799-1969 by Richard H. Thurm. Government Printing Office, 1972.
Medical Care for the Seaman: Origin of Public Medical Service in the United States by Robert Straus. Yale Press, 1950.
National Health: Key to the Future…the Story of The U.S. Public Health Service by Dr. Luther Terry, Surgeon General. The Retired Officer, Vol. 19, No. 5, Sept-Oct 1963, 24-27.
The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950 by Ralph C. Williams. Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S. Public Health Service, 1951.
Plagues and Politics by Fitzhugh Mullan. Basic Books, 1989.
The Barbary Plague by Marilyn Chase. Random House, 2004.
Goldberger’s War. The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader by Alan Kraut. Hill and Wang, 2003.
A Century of Adventure in Northern Health. The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Alaska, 1879–1978 by Robert Fortuine. PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation, 2006.
Caring & Curing. A History of the Indian Health Service by James P. Rife and Alan J. Dellapenna. PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation, 2009.
Service Before Self: Responding to the 2014-2016 Ebola Crisis. USPHS Commissioned Corps Health Service Officers. PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation, 2021.
COA & COF History
USPHS Newcomer’s Club Minutes, April 1941-June 1950
USPHS Newcomer’s Club Minutes, June 1950-December 1951
USPHS Newcomer’s Club Minutes, January 1952-March 1952
COA Yearbook, 1966
Officers’ Wives Club Photo Album 1968-1970
Officers’ Wives Club Photo Album 1972-1973
Officers’ Wives Club Photo Album 1973-1974
1989 HHS Authorization for “Anchor and Caduceus” PHS March