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Dr. William G. Kennon specialized in surgery of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Vanderbilt and other medical schools recruited doctors and nurses to assist the American Expeditionary Force in France after the U.S. joined the war in 1917. One of 12…

Katherine Anderson (1909-1995) received a PhD in bacteriology from Vanderbilt in 1940. Her interest in viruses led to her work in Dr. Ernest Goodpasture's lab. The couple married in 1945, after which she worked on environmental issues, natural…

Katherine Anderson (1909-1995) received a PhD in bacteriology from Vanderbilt in 1940. Her interest in viruses led to her work in Dr. Goodpasture's lab. The couple married in 1945, after which she worked on environmental issues, natural habitats and…

Ernest Goodpasture studied medicine at Johns Hopkins University, earning his M.D. in 1912. He became interested in vaccines working at Chelsea Naval Hospital’s pathology lab during the 1918 influenza epidemic. In 1925, Dr. Goodpasture arrived at…

Dr. Ernest Goodpasture was chair of pathology at Vanderbilt University from 1924-1955 and remains known for his work developing vaccines by culturing them in fertile chicken eggs. Goodpasture used so-called immortal HeLa cells as many pathologists…

One of 122 camp hospitals, Camp Hospital 28 opened February 4, 1918, and housed wounded troops from 40 miles around Nevers. Vanderbilt Unit S took over the hospital March 7. From February until December, the staff treated over 3,000 cases. The…

First introduced in 1900, the Kodak Brownie camera sold for only $1.00, and allowed users to make photographs easily and cheaply. Brownies were portable and recorded people as they were and as they wanted to be seen at the beach, at Coney Island, on…

Hugely popular in schools and homes from the 1880s through the 1920s, stereoscopic images were seen with a hand-held stereoscope. By combining two nearly-identical images the experience mimicked a 3-D reality. One guide noted “The making of…

Frank James (1843-1915) was part of the notorious James-Younger Gang. He and his younger brother, Jesse James, roamed the South and Midwest robbing banks and running from the law for over thirty years. The most famous incident was the disastrous…

Frank James (1843-1915) lived in Nashville from 1877 to 1881 and went by the alias Ben J. Woodson. At one point, he resided at 814 Fatherland Street in what is now called East Nashville. While living in and around the city, Frank worked as a…