Dental Medicine

Records of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine are from both official and non-official bodies, including Office of the Dean, departments, committees, and organizations. A considerable part of the records consists of correspondence files of Deans T. H. Chandler, E. H. Smith, and L. Mine, and pertain to administration of the school, relations with the Harvard Medical School and Harvard University, as well as special events, such as the work of Varaztad Kazanjian and the Harvard Surgical Unit during World War I.

Includes photographs, negatives, slides, and photomechanical prints of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine's physical plant including the interiors and exteriors of buildings and the campus grounds.

Waldo (University of Michigan, D.D.S. 1930) taught orthodontics at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1941, and at Harvard School of Dental Medicine from 1941 to 1953. He also served as orthodontist at the Children's Hospital. His major research interests were in development, growth, and function of the bone.

Scope and content: This finding aid describes photographs, photomechanical prints, 35 mm. slides, and glass plate negatives portraying people and events connected with the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (formerly the Harvard Dental School). Subjects include dental instruments and models, a Harvard hospital unit in France during World War 1, H.S.D.M. events, and portraits of H.S.D.M. faculty, students, and staff. Unless noted all images are black and white.

Kazanjian (Harvard, D.M.D. 1905 and M.D. 1921) was an internationally known pioneer in plastic surgery, specializing in the treatment of facial deformities. In 1915 he joined the First Harvard Unit as its Chief Dental Officer and served with the British Expeditionary Forces. In 1919 Kazanjian was appointed Professor of Oral Surgery at Harvard Dental School and in 1922 was appointed Professor of Clinical Oral Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In 1941 he became Harvard Medical School's first Professor of Plastic Surgery. Kazanjian served on the staffs of Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital, New England Deaconess Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital and Boston City Hospital.