Physicians -- Biography.

Consists of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted between 1967 and 1968 with and about Harry C. Solomon (1889-1982) regarding his career as a psychiatrist and mental health reformer. The collection also includes professional records created and collected by Solomon during his early medical career, including autopsy reports from his service with the United States military in France during World War I, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and research note cards.

Collection includes material related to a planned biography of Robert James Graves which Means did not complete; correspondence and a reprint of his 1963 piece “Homo medicus Americanus”; a copy of Means’s speech presenting the Kober Medal to William B. Castle in 1962; and records related to the Massachusetts Community Organization Service, the Hospital Planning Council of Greater Boston, and the Massachusetts General Hospital longevity study.