Identity elements
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute archives
Date(s)
- circa 1880s-2020s (Creation)
Extent
~est. 250.00 linear feet (250 boxes)
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Scope and content
This collection contains records from the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Department of Ophthalmology, administrative documents, development documents, materials from the Eye bank, Allied papers, Edward W. D. Norton's papers, general files, architectural designs and planning documents, papers from other notable faculty and administrators, newsletters, promotional materials, photographs, awards, plaques, ephemera, and audio-visual materials.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
This collection is open for research.
Physical access
This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact the University Archivist, Nick Iwanicki, at ngi5@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to ngi5@miami.edu.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
- Latin
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Finding aids
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Archivist's note
Finding aid created by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, 08-01-24.