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The collection was created by Harry L. Thompson, the son of Walter Eckert Thompson and born sometime between 1889 and 1894 in Nebraska. He received his B.A. (1912) and A.M. (1914) from the University of Nebraska. Thompson moved to Utah around 1919 and was on the faculty of the University of Utah as Assistant Professor of Pharmacy for a short time in the 1920s. He married Gertrude L. Thompson sometime in the 1920s. Thompson opened his own pharmacy called Harvard Drug in the 1930s, located at 1083 S. State Street in Salt Lake City. The collection includes documents from the Thompson family and Harvard Drug.
The collection includes correspondence, business papers, and pamphlets from the Harry L. Thompson family and their family business, Harvard Drug. Included in the personal papers are letters, cards, souvenirs, and family religious texts. The pamphlets are particularly interesting, as they were probably distributed through the family drugstore and provide a window to understanding common medical perceptions in the 1910s through the 1930s. They frankly cover a variety of topics, from common foot ailments and constipation to venereal diseases.
Harry L. Thompson Papers, 1874-1940, Utah State Historical Society.
Gift of Adrian Gerritsen, 2001.
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