The papers of Senator Lister Hill at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.

摘要

IN January of 1978 Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) completed the processing and arrangement of the personal papers of Senator Lister Hill of Alabama. Senator Hill represented Alabama in the United States Congress for fortysixyears (1923-1937, U.S. House; 1938-1968, U.S. Senate) and in his last fifteen years was the most powerful member of the Senate regarding health-related issues. The collection of papers represents the senator's correspondence during the entire forty-six years. It consists primarily of the originals of correspondence to Hill with carbons of his replies attached. Because of his significant contributions, particularly in the area of health, UAB and the National Library of Medicine became interested in the documentation of the senator's contributions. Therefore NLM awarded a four-year contract to UAB for the execution of the project. The first two years of the contract were devoted to the processing and arranging of the Hill papers by the Lister Hill Library, and the final two years focused on the writing of a monograph on Senator Hill's healthrelated activities by Dr. Virginia Hamilton, chairman of the UAB history department.