Frederick L. Hoffman Papers, 1881-1989

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Series III: Publications, 1890-1968, undated

Series III is primarily composed of publications by Hoffman. Hoffman published extensively in outlets ranging from medical and scientific journals, to insurance trade publications, to popular magazines and newspapers. The subjects of his publications were similarly varied. The majority deal with industrial safety and public health topics, especially the prevalence and mortality of cancer. Hoffman also used public health statistics to advocate for his belief in white supremacist racial hierarchy and eugenics; these themes appear frequently in his published work. Subseries III.2 contains clippings and publications about Hoffman, including his gifts to the libraries of Tulane University and the University of Pennsylvania. Subseries III.3 includes a small group of published materials neither by nor about Hoffman. Many are likely related to his interests in scientific racism and eugenics.


Subseries III.1: Publications by Hoffman, 1892-1937, 1968, undated



Box 12 "Vital Statistics of the Negro," The Arena, Boston, Massachusetts, no. XXIX, 1892 April

It was this work which led to Frederick L. Hoffman being asked to join the staff of the Prudential Life Insurance Company of America, Newark, N. J.


Box 12 "Suicides and Modern Civilization," The Arena, Boston, Massachusetts, vol. 7 no. 8, p. 680, 1893 May


Box 12 Report of Sanitary Conditions of the Tenements of Trinity Church; Printed by order of the Vestry, 1895

Investigation made by Frederick L. Hoffman.



Box 13 Frederick L. Hoffman. Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro. American Economic Association, MacMillan Publishing Company, New York, 1896



Box 30 "Cancer in the North American Negro," American Journal of Surgery and Gynecology, 1898



Box 13 Frederick L. Hoffman. History of the Prudential Life Insurance Company of America. Newark, N.J.: Prudential Press, 1900


Box 13 "The Practical Use of Vital Statistics," Boston Medical Journal, 1900 December 27


Box 13 "Fatal Accidents in Coal Mining in North America," Mining and Engineering Journal, 1901 August 10


Box 13 "The Negro Death Rate in 1906," Insurance Agent, 1908


Box 13 "The Mutual Relation of Life Insurance and the Medical Press," Published in the Proceedings of the American Editor's Association, 41st annual meeting, 1910 June 4


Box 13 "Memorial on Occupational Diseases," Prepared by a Committee of Experts and Presented to the President of the United States, 1910


Box 13 "The Cancer Death Rate in Selected Occupations," Published in the bulletin of the American Academy of Medicine, 1914 October 4


Box 13 "Economic Progress of the United States during the 75 Years," Published by American Statistical Association, Boston, Massachusetts, vol. XIV, 1914 December 19

Also published by the Prudential Press, 1914.


Box 13 "Significance of a Declining Death Rate," Prudential Press, 1914



Box 15 Essays on Statistics, volumes III and V, 1914-1921

5 volumes; volumes 1, 2, and 4 missing.



Box 13 "The Mortality from Cancer Throughout the World," The Prudential Press, Newark, N. J., 1915



Box 14 Bound volume of papers on Leprosy; includes the "Care and treatment of leprosy" report Senate S. 4086, 1916 March 25


Box 14 "Leprosy as a National and an International Problem," Journal of Sociologic Medicine, 1916 April


Box 14 "Cancer Problem in Relation to Fraternal Insurance," Published in the Proceedings of the 3rd annual convention of the national Fraternal Congress of America, Cleveland, Ohio, 1916 August 21-25


Box 14 Bulletin; Miner's Nystagmus, Washington Government Printing Office, 1916


Box 14 Bound volume on Malaria, Army Anthropometry, Health Administration, Dusty Trade Committee, Prudential Press, 1916-1917


Box 14 "Duty of Nationalized Teutons Set Forth," Exporter's Review, 1917 March 3


Box 14 "Duty of an American of German Birth," The Economic World, 1917 April 7


Box 14 "Facts and Fallacies of Compulsory Health Insurance," Prudential Press, Newark, N. J., 1917


Box 14 Autocracy and Paternalism vs Democracy and Liberty, Prudential Press, Newark, N.J., 1918


Box 14 Über Bugertreue Freiheit und Demokratce, 1918


Box 14 Failure of German Compulsory Health Insurance: A War Revelation, Prudential Press, Newark, N.J., 1918


Box 14 "National Health Insurance," Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, 1919 August


Box 14 "Is Leprosy Increasing?," Prudential Press, Reprint from an Address before the American Medical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1920 April 28


Box 14 "Progress of the Safety Movement," Weekly letter of the National Safety Council, 1920 May 24


Box 14 "Progress of the Safety Movement in Great Britain," Safety Engineering Journal, 1920 August



Box 30 "Conditions in the Indian Medical Service," Reprint from Journal of American Medical Association,vol. 75, pp. 49-494, 1920 August



Box 14 "Conditions in the Indian Medical Service," Reprint, Journal of the American Medical Association vol. 75, 1920 August 14


Box 14 "Industrial Accident Record of 1919 - Best in Five Years," National Safety Council, 1920 September 27


Box 14 "Gorgas the Servant of Mankind," Southern Medical Journal, 1920 October


Box 14 "Mortality from Tuberculosis from 1900-1919," Spectator 30, 1920



Box 17 Bound volume of three articles, 1920 October-1923 June

"Description of Itasca Lake Trip," The Eastern Underwriter, 1920 October 22, "Why the Cliff Dwellers Vanished," Scientific American, 1920 December 25, and "The Falls of the Maderia," Bulletin of the Pan-American Union, 1923 June.



Box 15 Bound Volume of Six Articles: Travel and General Subjects, 1920-1929

"Why the Cliff Dwellers Vanished," Scientific American, 1920 December 25, "The Falls of Maderia," Pan-American Union, 1923 June 23, "Trail of the Rainbow Bridge," Stone and Webster Journal, 1923 January 29, "The Navajo Population Problem," Stone and Webster Journal, [date unclear] May, and "What America Has Done for Haiti," Stone and Webster, 1929 July, and "What Sugar Has Done for Hawaii," Stone and Webster, 1929 December.



Box 18 Bound Volume of Five Articles, 1920-1929

"Why the Cliff Dwellers Vanished," Scientific American, 1920 December 25, "The Falls of Maderia," Pan-American Union, 1923 June 23, "Trail of the Rainbow Bridge," Stone and Webster Journal, 1923 January 29, "The Navajo Population Problem," Stone and Webster Journal, [date unclear] May, and "What America Has Done for Haiti," Stone and Webster, 1929 July.



Box 16 Geographical essays, 1920-1930


Box 16 Abstract of an Address on Mortality from Cancer in South, Orleans Parish Medical Society, 1921 May 19


Box 16 "The Organization of Knowledge," Reprint from Science, 1922 March 10



Box 30 "Cancer Problem in the Southern States," Address before Columbia Medical Society Cancer Meeting, Columbia, South Carolina, 1922


Box 30 "Causes of Death in Primitive Races", after 1922



Box 16 "The Jewish Demography," American Hebrew, 1923 March 3



Box 17 "Progress in the Safety First Movement," Spectator, New York, N. Y., 1923 March 15



Box 30 "Cancer Statistics in Japan," Journal of the American Medical Association, 1923 March 21



Box 17 "Statistics on Cancer in Algiers," Journal of the American Medical Association, 1923 May 1


Box 17 "Views on Question of Reparations and War Debt Settlements," Reprint, American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, Pa., Pub. 1698., 1923 July


Box 17 "Health Conditions Among the Indians," Reprint, Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 81, 1923 September 8


Box 17 "Mortality from Cancer," American Medical Association, 1923 November 7


Box 17 "Problem of Negro-White Inter-Mixture and Intermarriage," Reprint from Eugenics in Race and State, vol. II and Prudential Press, Newark, N. J., 1923


Box 17 "Race Amalgamation in Hawaii," Reprint from Eugenics in Race and State, vol. II, 1923


Box 17 "Race Amalgamation in Hawaii," Reprint from Eugenics in Race and State, vol. II, 1923


Box 17 "Conservation of America's Economic Independence," Reprint from Scientific Monthly, vol. XVI, no 4, 1923



Box 29 "Cancer and Civilization," Reprint. Address read before the Belgian Cancer Congress, Brussels, Belgium, 1923 November 18-19



Box 19 "Germany's Problem of Reconstruction," The Economic World, 1924 January 12



Box 17 "Health of Working Women," Bulletin of the Consumer's League of New York, vol. III, no. 5, 1924 May


Box 17 "Cancer Mortality in Leading American Cities in 1923," Economic World, New York, 1924 June 21


Box 17 "Medical Problems of Our Indian Population," Reprint, Eastern Underwriter Association on Indian Affairs, 1925 February 5


Box 17 "Radium Mesothorium Necrosis," Address before the Section on Preventive and Industrial Medicine and Public Health, given at the 76th Session of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, N. J., 1925 May



Box 29 "Cancer in Canada," Address delivered before the Association of Health Officers of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, 1925 May 4



Box 17 "Cancer Problem in Canada," Address before Ontario Health Officers Association, Toronto, Canada; Reprinted from Public Health Journal, 1925 June



Box 29 "Canadian Cancer Problems and Research," Address delivered before Canadian Public Health Association. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1925 June 3. The Prudential Press, 1925 June 3



Box 17 "Life's Greatest Tragedy," Nation's Health, vol. VII, no. 7, 1925 July


Box 17 "Will the Athletic Girl Keep her Form?" The Literary Digest, 1925 August 15


Box 17 "Suicide and Business," The Literary Digest, 1925 August 29


Box 17 "John F. Dryden and Fifty Years of the Prudential," The Spectator, Philadelphia, Pa., 1925 November 19



Box 29 "Some Cancer Facts and Fallacies," Prudential Press, 1925



Box 17 "Should the Death Penalty be Abolished?," League to Abolish Capital Punishment, circa 1925



Box 29 "Cancer in Native Races," Address before American Association for Cancer Research, Albany, New York, 1926 April



Box 17 "Increase in Murder," American Academy of Political Science, Philadelphia, Pa., 1926 May, 1968


Box 17 Bound volumes of series of newspaper articles on Mexican trip, The Boston Herald, 1926, 3 Volumes; Two volumes hardcover, one volume bound in paper.



Box 18 "Windstorm and Insurance," The Spectator, Philadelphia, Pa., 1926



Box 29 "Cancer in Mexico," Address before American Association For Cancer Research, Rochester, N. Y., Prudential Press, Newark, N. J., 1927 April 14



Box 18 "The Cancer Record for 1926," The Spectator, Philadelphia, Pa., 1927 October 13


Box 18 Bound volume of series of newspaper articles on Russia, The Peoria Star, 1927


Box 18 Bound volume of a series of articles on Russia and Finland, The Newark Evening News, 1927


Box 18 Deaths from Lead Poisoning; Washington Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1927



Box 19 "The Cancer Record for 1927," The Spectator, 1928 May 24



Box 18 Bound volume of articles on Aviation, The New York Times, New York and The Peoria Star, 1927-1928


Box 18 Aviation in the United States. Series of articles in the New York Times and the Peoria Star, 1927-1928


Box 18 Papers on Aviation, 1927-1929



Box 29 Frederick L. Hoffman, "Travelling by Air Along Boston - New York Route," Sunday Times, 1928 June 17



Box 30 "Over the Mountains to San Francisco," The New York Times Sunday edition, 1928 July 15



Box 19 "Statistics of Occupational Cancer," Report of the International Conference on Cancer, London, England, held under the auspices of the British Empire Cancer Campaign; Pub. by the British Empire Campaign, London, England, 1928


Box 19 "Navajo Population Problem," 23rd International Congress of Americanists, 1928


Box 19 "Some Problems of Longevity," The Spectator Company, Philadelphia, Pa., 1928



Box 29 "Cancer Among the North American Indians," Address before American Cancer Research Society, Washington, D.C., 1928 April 22. Prudential Press, 1928 April 22, 1929

Included "The Indian as a Life Insurance Risk" and "The Progress of the North American Indian."



Box 19 "Over the Mountains to San Francisco," The New York Times, 1928 July 15-August 12


Box 19 "Trail to Rainbow Bridge," Stone and Webster Journal, no. 11, vol. 44, 1929 January


Box 19 "Gastric and Duodenal ulcers," The Spectator, 1929 February 14


Box 19 "The Navajo Population Problem," Stone and Webster Journal, 1929 May


Box 19 "What America Has Done for Haiti," Stone and Webster Journal, 1929 July


Box 19 "The Cancer Record of 1928," The Spectator, 1929 July 11


Box 19 "What Sugar Has Done for Hawaii," Stone and Webster Journal, Boston, Massachusetts, 1929 December


Box 19 "The Medical and Hospital Service of U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs," Hospital Social Service, XIX, 1929


Box 19 "Second Report on the Oriental Mortality of Hawaii", 1929


Box 19 "Race Pathology in Hawaii", 1929



Box 29 "San Francisco Cancer Survey (Incomplete)," Prudential Press, Newark, N. J., 1929


Box 29 Letter to President of the Prudential, Mr. Edward D. Duffield: "Thirty-five Years of Work", 1929



Box 30 "Cancer in Egypt," Journal of Cancer Research, vol. XIV, no. 3, 1930 August



Box 19 "Homicide Record for 1929," Reprint from the Spectator, circa 1930



Box 21 Clippings, circa 1930s

Topics include: Aviation, Babson Institute, Cancer, Capital punishment, Hawaiian Trip, Frederick L. Hoffman, Homicide, Indians, Jamaican Trip, Measurements, Mexico, Mexican Trip, African Americans, Prohibition, Russia, South American Expedition, Social Health Insurance, Suicide, Tornados and Wind storms, Germany and the War.



Box 20 "The South from the Air," Manufacturer's Record, 1931 June 4


Box 20 "Present Trends of the Negro Population," Opportunity News, New York, N. Y., 1931 November


Box 20 Address: Presentation of the Anniversary volume to Professor Rudolph Matas, Published by School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1931 December 17


Box 20 "The Cancer Record for 1931," The Spectator, Philadelphia, Pa., 1932 May 12


Box 20 "The Suicide Record," Annual Review, The Spectator, 1932 June 9



Box 31 "Matas Birthday Volume: A Collection of Surgical Essays Written in Honor of Rudolph Matas," New England Journal of Medicine, 1932 June 9



Box 20 "Causes of Death in Primitive Races," Metron, vol. X nos. 1-2; printed for private circulation. Roma Istituto Poligrafico Dello Stato Libreria, 1932



Box 29 "Some Principles of Cancer Statistics Research," Paper contributed to the Second Australian Cancer Conference, Canberra, Australia, 1933 March



Box 20 "Cancer Mortality of Massachusetts 1860 - 1929," Reprinted from the Journal of Medicine (New England), vol. 203, no. 15, 1933 April 13


Box 20 "The Cancer Record of 1932," The Spectator, 1933 April 27



Box 29 "Cancer in British Malaya and the Phillipine Islands," Address delivered before American Association for Cancer Research; Washington, D.C., 1933 May 8, Prudential Press, 1933 May 8



Box 20 "Cancer of the Male Generative Organs," New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 209, no. 22, 1933 November 30


Box 20 Discussion on Geographical Distribution of Cancer in Spain, The Cancer of 1932, Madrid Baass SA, Tipografica, 1933


Box 20 "Lead Poisoning Legislation and Statistics," Committee on Lead Poisoning, The Prudential Press, 1933


Box 20 "The Cancer Record of 1933," The Spectator, 1934 June 7


Box 20 "Cancer of the Esophagus," Reprint from the New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 211 no. 17, pp. 762-769, 1934 October 23


Box 20 "Some Dietary Aspects of Cancer," Reprinted from Communications Of the International Congress of Scientific Social Campaign Against Cancer, 1934



Box 29 "Malaria in Florida, Georgia and Alabama," Prudential Press, 1934



Box 17 "It takes Courage to Gather Statistics," The Literary Digest, 1935 November 23



Box 20 "Cancer and Diet," The Williams and Wilkins Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1937



Box 29 List of Hoffman's publications at the College of Insurance, New York, N.Y., undated


Box 29 Frederick L. Hoffman, "Miami to Nassau," Air Commerce Bulletin, undated



Box 30 "Cancer in the Maori Population of New Zealand," Excerptum Acta Cancrologica; Editor P. Gerber, Budapest, vol. 1, Fasc. 3, undated


Box 30 "Papa's Tantrums," Literary Digest, undated



Box 31 List of publications and books by Frederick L. Hoffman, undated


Box 31 Bound volume of 9 Hoffman essays, undated



Box 14 Verses of a Wanderer, undated


Subseries III.2: Publications about Hoffman, circa 1890s-1966, undated



Box 30 The Southern Workman and Hampton School Record, circa 1890s

mentions Hoffman and his statements regarding African Americans.



Box 13 "Prudential Owns a Part of Gibraltar", 1901

Article about Frederick L. Hoffman returning from Europe with 2000 pounds of the Rock of Gibraltar.



Box 29 Editorial about Hoffman. Rough Notes: Journal Devoted to Insurance and the Industries, 1917 April 5



Box 31 An interview with Hoffman, published by Sheridan House, N.Y., 1917



Box 16 "Hoffman to fly 3000 miles for Air Crash Facts," Eastern Underwriter, 1921 April 1



Box 29 Hereward Carrington, "Into the Heart of the Amazon Jungle," Leslie's Weekly, 1921


Box 29 "Dr. F. L. Hoffman's Change; Will Join Babson Institute,", 1922 May 1


Box 29 Editorial Tribute to Hoffman regarding founding of the National Malaria Committee, 1925



Box 30 "Dr. Frederick Hoffman to Make Flight," Spectator, 1929 April 4



Box 29 "German Society Elects Hoffman," Science, vol. 74 no. 1923, p. 591, 1931 December 11


Box 29 Horace S. Mazet, "An Occasional Air Travels More or Less," The Sportsman Pilot, 1931


Box 29 Alva Johnston, "The Fifteen Biggest Men in America," The New Yorker, 1931


Box 29 "Prudential's Hoffman - Regarding Suicide Evil," Time Magazine, 1932 June 13


Box 29 James Thurber, "Behind the Statistics" The New Yorker, 1933 July 1

About Hoffman.



Box 31 "The Hoffman Cancer Library at the University of Pennsylvania", 1934

Booklet describing Hoffman Cancer Library gift.



Box 20 "Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman Retires," Home News Office of the Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, N. J., 1935 June



Box 13 Clippings of Frederick L. Hoffman retirement and death notices, 1935, 1946



Box 29 Maurice Ries, "Eminent Vital Statistician Makes Valuable Gift to Tulane Department," The Tulanian Alumni Magazine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1938



Box 20 Maps in the Frederick L. Hoffman collection: an Inventory of the Collection of the Middle American Research Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, Tulane University, 1939 December



Box 29 Albert Regula, "Brief History of the American Museum of Safety", 1955



Box 30 "Annals of Legislation," Series of three articles on Social Insurance; The New Yorker Magazine: mentions Hoffman, 1966 July 2



Box 29 George Creel, "How We Advertised America", undated

Mention of Hoffman on page 138.


Subseries III.3: Other publications, 1890-1918, undated



Box 30 "A Warm Wave from the South" pamphlet, 1890


Box 30 "Facts Concerning Newport News, Va." Booklet, 1892



Box 31 "Hampton Illustrated" Pamphlet, 1892



Box 30 "Bilder aus der Oldenburg" pamphlet, 1893


Box 30 "A Decade of Hampton School" pamphlet, 1903



Box 31 "The Work of Hampton Institute" booklet, 1904



Box 30 "Oldenburg Seeschiffahrt alter und neuer zeit" pamphlet, Leipzig, 1906



Box 29 von Ludwig Strackerjan, "Aberglaube und Sagen," Band I and II jaus dem Herzogturn Oldenburg, 1909



Box 30 "Vaterlandilche Gefehvclfe fur die Obertufeder der [Volksfehuten?]" pamphlet, 1918



Box 1 Miscellaneous books, undated, 6 Volumes



Box 30 Fuhrer durch Varel und Umgebung von E. Wagner booklet, undated



Box 31 "The Work of General Armstrong" booklet, undated


Box 31 "Sister of the Road: Box Car Bertha" by R. L. Reitman; Chapter 15, p. 192-199, undated


Box 31 "Guide Practique de la Cure Kneipp" pamphlet, undated