Online Content: Not Available / Language: English / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="2015">2015</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="2016">2016</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 11.1 linear feet (; 27 boxes, 6 volumes)
Abstract:: Harry Egan Adamson Jr. (1949-2021) was a Philadelphia AIDS and gay rights activist and restaurant manager. Infected in 1982, Adamson lived with HIV for nearly 40 years. He moved to Philadelphia in 1981 with his partner David Yontz. The couple stayed with Dr. John E. Fryer (1937-2003), who became one of Adamson’s lifelong friends. Yontz returned to Chicago in 1982, but Adamson remained in Philadelphia. Many of his friends and former lovers succumbed to AIDS between 1984 and 2000, but Adamson was a slow progressor and did not need to start medication for his disease until 1998. Though his HIV disease was under good control, neuropathy in his extremities became disabling in 1993. Adamson remained as active as he could, completing a master’s degree in pastoral counseling at La Salle University in 2002, acting as agent executor for Dr. John Fryer’s estate after his death in 2003, and serving on the board of Philly AIDSThrift from 2010-2013. Nonetheless, medical problems and depression...(see more)

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Extent:: 8.0 linear feet (3 record boxes, 1 hollinger box, and 1 half hollinger box. )
Abstract:: Business records, correspondence, papers, and personal research files of American flavor chemist Richard L. Hall.

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Extent:: 0.1 linear feet (1 folder.)
Abstract:: A collection of stamps and postal covers created by the Israel Postal Company (Rashut ha-doʼar) and the Israel Chemical Society (Ḥevrah ha-Yiśreʾelit le-khimyah) as collected by Ehud Keinan.

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Extent:: 0.1 linear feet (1 folder.)
Abstract:: A signed copy of the play "Oxygen" by Polish-American theoretical chemist Roald Hoffman and Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist Carl Djerassi with related articles and correspondence as collected and maintained by Philip Rakita.

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