Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives

L.G. ZERFAS
COLLECTION, 1927-1946

Collection #
M 0386

Table of Contents

Collection Information
Historical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Folder Listing
Cataloging Information

Processed by:
Christina Hartlieb
18 July 1992
Chris Harter
23 December 1997

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION:

1 box

COLLECTION DATES:

1927-1946

PROVENANCE:

Not available

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

Held by the Indiana Historical Society

ALTERNATE FORMATS:

None

OTHER FINDING AIDS:

None

RELATED HOLDINGS:

None

ACCESSION NUMBER:

Transferred from Visual Collections

NOTE:

Transferred from Visual Collections, P244

 

HISTORICAL SKETCH

Leon Grotius Zerfas was born March 7, 1897, in Frankfort, Indiana (Clinton Co). He received his B.S., 1920, and M.D., 1922, from Indiana University. He later received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1941. Zerfas worked at the Thorndyke Laboratory at Harvard University and served as the first director of the Lilly Laboratory for Clinical Research. Zerfas also taught at the Indiana University Medical School and maintained a private practice in Camby (Marion Co.) and Merom (Sullivan Co.). He died in 1978 in Indianapolis.

Source: Thompson, Donald E. Indiana Authors and their Books, 1967- 1980. (Crawfordsville: R.R. Donnelley, 1981).

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection, which spans the years 1927 to 1946, contains correspondence, mostly between L.G. Zerfas and Eli and J.K. Lilly, Jr., of a professional nature. Inventories of opium, coca, etc., and special tax stamps for practitioners dispensing these drugs are present. Government publications, of both the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, describe food and drug regulations. U.S. Internal Revenue drug order forms show Zerfas' requests. Also included is a handwritten chemistry notebook dated 1937.

FOLDER LISTING

FOLDER

CONTENTS

1

Correspondence, 1927-1933

2

Correspondence and Papers, 1934-1935

3

Tax Stamps and Drug Inventories, 1930, 1942-1946

4

U.S. Government Publications, 1930. 1938, 1939

5

Drug Request Order Forms, 1942-1944

6

Chemistry Notebook, 1937

 

CATALOGING INFORMATION

For additional information on this collection, including a list of subject headings that may lead you to related materials:

  1. Go to the Indiana Historical Society's online catalog
  2. Click on the "Local Catalog" icon.
  3. Search for the collection by its call number, using the letter or letters designation and four digits (e.g., M 0715, SC 2234).
  4. When you find the collection, go to the "Holdings" screen for a list of headings that can be searched for related materials.

 

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