VINTAGE HANDWRITTEN DOCTOR LEDGERS Medical Account Books/Indianapolis Indiana

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VINTAGE HANDWRITTEN DOCTOR LEDGERS Medical Account Books/Indianapolis Indiana:
$167.50

EXTRAORDINARY MID-CENTURY ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LEDGERS FROM THE MEDICAL PRACTICE OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA FAMILY PHYSICIAN FORREST L. DENNY. This important collection of vintage ledgers spans a ten year period dating from 1954-1964. Dr. Forrest L. Denny (1919-1988) graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1942 and served as Army Captain during World War II. Following the war he established a family medical practice in Indianapolis where he served the community for many years before retiring in 1986. His wife Eva, a 1944 graduate of Indiana University School of Business, was a bookkeeper for her husband\'s medical practice and kept impeccable records as these ledgers show.One of a kind collection chronicles Dr. Denny\'s thriving medical practice in Indianapolis over a ten year period beginning in February 1954 and running through September 1964. All ledgers contains of over 100 pages with most pages filled with innumerable entries for office visits (cost of an office visit ranged around $4). Polio is mentioned a number of times, as many patients Dr. Denny treated suffered from the infectious disease which often left its victims paralyzed (the first polio vaccine was developed in the 1950s by Jonas Salk). Ledgers also show that Dr. Denny delivered many babies in his practice, as this archive predates the specialization seen today in medicine. Notably, one of the ledgers begins with the notorious date of November 22nd, 1963, a date forever etched in American history as the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It appears it was business as usual at Dr. Denny\'s practice that day, as he saw numerous patients in his office on that day as well as the next, a national day of mourning. Collectively, these ten handwritten ledgers contain thousands of entries also making for a treasure trove of local genealogy. Ledger dates run as follows: Feb. \'54 to March \'55, March \'55 to Oct. \'55, Oct. \'55 to April \'56, Jan. \'57 to Sept. \'57, Sept. \'57 to April \'58, April \'58 to Dec. \'58, June \'61 to Jan. \'62, Jan. \'62 to Jan, \'63, Jan. \'63 to Nov. \'63, and Nov. \'63 to Jan. \'63.Indianapolis is the capital of the state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. It is located in the East North Central region of the Midwest, near the confluence of the White River and Fall Creek. The city covers 372 square miles and according to recent census figures has a population of about 848,788, making it the largest city in Indiana, second largest in the Midwest, and 14th largest in the country.Founded in 1821 as a planned city for the new seat of Indiana\'s state government, Indianapolis was platted by Alexander Ralston and Elias Pym Fordham on a 1-square-mile grid. The city grew beyond the Mile Square, as the advent of the railroad and completion of the National Road solidified the city\'s role as a manufacturing and transportation hub. Indianapolis continues to be a distribution and logistics center, as more interstate highways intersect with the city than any other in the U.S. This has led to the city\'s nickname as the \"Crossroads of America.\"The city\'s philanthropic community has been instrumental in the development of its most well-known cultural institutions, including The Children\'s Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Zoo, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indiana State Museum, and Indiana Landmarks. Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment holds the fifth largest endowment in the U.S., with nearly $10 billion in assets. The city maintains the largest collection of monuments dedicated to veterans and war dead in the U.S., outside of Washington, D.C. Since the 1970 city-county consolidation, known as Unigov, local government administration has operated under the direction of an elected 25-member city-county council, headed by the mayor. Indianapolis is considered a \"high sufficiency\" global city.In 1816, the year Indiana gained statehood, the U.S. Congress donated four sections of federal land to establish a permanent seat of state government. Two years later, under the Treaty of St. Mary\'s (1818), the Delaware relinquished title to their tribal lands in central Indiana, agreeing to leave the area by 1821. This tract of land, which was called the New Purchase, included the site selected for the new state capital in 1820. The availability of new federal lands for purchase in central Indiana attracted settlers, many of them descendants of families from northwestern Europe. Although many of these first European and American setters were Protestants, a large proportion of the early Irish and German immigrants were Catholics. Few African Americans lived in central Indiana before 1840.The first European Americans to permanently settle in the area that became Indianapolis were either the McCormick or Pogue families. The McCormicks are generally considered to be the town\'s first permanent settlers; however, some historians believe George Pogue and family may have arrived first, on March 2nd, 1819, and settled in a log cabin along the creek that was later called Pogue\'s Run. Other historians have argued as early as 1822 that John Wesley McCormick, his family, and employees became the first European American settlers in area, settling near the White River in February 1820.On January 11th, 1820, the Indiana General Assembly authorized a committee of ten commissioners to select a site in central Indiana for the new state capital. The state legislature appointed Alexander Ralston and Elias Pym Fordham to survey and design a town plan for Indianapolis, which was platted in 1821. Ralston had been a surveyor for the French architect Pierre L\'Enfant, and assisted him the plan for Washington, D.C. Ralston\'s original plan for Indianapolis called for a town of 1-square-mile. Indianapolis became a seat of county government on December 31st, 1821, when Marion County, was established. A combined county and town government continued until 1832, when Indianapolis incorporated as a town.Indianapolis became an incorporated city effective March 30th, 1847. Samuel Henderson, the city\'s first mayor, lead the new city government, which included a seven-member city council. In 1853, voters approved a new city charter that provided for an elected mayor and a fourteen-member city council. The city charter continued to be revised as Indianapolis expanded. Effective January 1st, 1825, the seat of state government relocated to Indianapolis from Corydon, Indiana. In addition to state government offices, a U.S. district court was established at Indianapolis in 1825.The city became a fixture on the first major federally funded highway in the U.S., the National Road. The first railroad to serve Indianapolis, the Madison and Indianapolis, began operation on October 1st, 1847, and subsequent railroad connections fostered growth. Indianapolis was the home of the country\'s first Union Station, or common rail passenger terminal. Following the Civil War, Indianapolis experienced tremendous growth and prosperity, much attributed to the Indiana gas boom.By the 20th century, Indianapolis had become an important automobile manufacturer. With roads leading out of the city in all directions, the city became a major hub of regional transport, connecting to booming manufacturing centers like Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Louisville, and St. Louis. The Soldiers\' and Sailors\' Monument, dedicated on May 15th, 1902, would later become an iconic symbol of the city. Ray Harroun won the inaugural running of the Indianapolis 500, held May 30th, 1911 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Indianapolis was one of the hardest hit cities in the Great Flood of 1913. Approximately 6 inches of rain inundated a nearly 6-square-mile area, causing five known deaths. The White River, estimated at 19.5 feet above flood stage, forced 4,000 to flee their homes on the city\'s near west side when an earthen levee failed. The city\'s transportation and water supply were disrupted for nearly four days in flooded areas and as many as 7,000 families lost their homes. The Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913 and subsequent police mutiny and riots lasted one week. The strike led to the creation of the state\'s earliest labor-protection laws, including a minimum wage, regular work weeks, and improved working conditions.Indianapolis served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, and up to the time of the Great Migration in the early 20th century, the city had a higher black population (nearly 10%) than any other city in the Northern States. Led by D. C. Stephenson, the Indiana Klan became the most powerful political and social organization in Indianapolis from 1921 through 1928, controlling City Council, the Board of School Commissioners, and the Board of County Commissioners. More than 40% of native-born white males in Indianapolis claimed membership in the Klan. Race relations would continue to be problematic throughout the 20th century. Though Indianapolis abolished segregated schools before Brown v. Board of Education, the later action of court-ordered school desegregation busing by Judge Samuel Hugh Dillin proved controversial. On April 4th, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy delivered a speech from the city, urging calm after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.Under the mayoral administration of Richard Lugar, the city and county governments restructured, consolidating most public services into a new entity called Unigov. The plan removed redundancies, captured increasingly suburbanizing tax revenue, and created a Republican political machine that dominated Indianapolis politics until the 2000s. Unigov went into effect on January 1st, 1970, increasing the city\'s land area by 308.2 square miles and population by 268,366 people.Amid the changes in government and growth, the city invested in an aggressive strategy to brand Indianapolis as a sport tourism destination. Under the administration of the city\'s longest-serving mayor, William Hudnut (1976-1992), millions of dollars were poured into sport facilities. Throughout the 1980s, $122 million in public and private funding built the Indianapolis Tennis Center, Major Taylor Velodrome, Indiana University Natatorium, Carroll Track and Soccer Stadium, and RCA Dome. The latter project secured the 1984 relocation of the NFL Baltimore Colts and the 1987 Pan American Games. The economic development strategy succeeded in revitalizing the central business district through the 1990s, with the openings of the Indianapolis Zoo (1988), Circle Centre Mall (1995), Victory Field (1996), and Bankers Life Fieldhouse (1999).Condition: Rare collection of manuscript ledgers remains in good to very good condition (see pictures). Volumes bound in original publisher\'s cloth with dates inked to front covers. Mild toning though generally clean internally with ink bold and legible throughout. Each volume contains over 100 pp. with most pages bearing manuscript entries; and measures approx 12.5\" tall x 7.5\" wide x 1\" thick. 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