Finding Aid for the Margaret H. Jones Papers Biomed.0493
Finding aid prepared by Shira Peltzman, 2020.
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Title: Margaret H. Jones papers
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University of California, Los Angeles. Brain
Research Institute
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0493
Physical Description:
.1 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date (inclusive): 1955-1960
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[Identification of item], Margaret H. Jones Papers (Collection 493). Louise M. Darling
Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of
California, Los Angeles.
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Transferred by UCLA Brain Research Institute, 2012.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
8248594
Margaret H. Jones, M.D., was born June 3, 1904, in Portland, Maine. She received an A.B.,
Radcliffe Coll., 1925, Yale Univ., an M.A., Vassar Coll., 1927, an M.D., Cornell Univ. Med.
Center, 1933-34, Babies Hosp., 1934-36, did a residency at Mary Imogene Bassett Hosp., 1936,
and received an M.P.H., Harvard Grad. School of Public Health, 1940. She was instructor,
Dept. of Physiology, Vassar Coll., 1926-28, research chemist, Reed and Carnick Co., N.J.,
1928-29, director, Div. of Maternal and Child Health, Crippled children, Public Health
Nursing, Wyo. State Dept. of Health, 1936-43, and pediatrician, Holleran Med. Group, L.A.,
1943-49. She was on the staff, Childrens Hospital, L.A., 1943-49, and Queen of Angels Hosp.,
L.A., 1943-54. She taught in the Dept. of Pediatrics, USC School of Medicine, 1943-54, had a
private practice, Glendale, Calif., 1949-54, and taught in the UCLA Dept. of Pediatrics,
1954-72. She joined the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine at
their second annual meeting in 1949 and became their sixth president in 1956. She married
Adrian C. Kanaar in 1989 and became Margaret Jones-Kanaar. Dr. Jones-Kanaar died at her home
in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, in 2001.
This collection documents a portion of Margaret H. Jones's involvement with the American
Academy for Cerebral Palsy's Brain Registry. It includes: "Infantile spastic hemiplegia", a
ten-page pamphlet reproducing (in a different format) the Academy's brain registry exhibit
at the American Medical Association's June, 1955 meeting -- Annotated typescript,
"Submission of brains in connection with 'Project Cerebral Palsy'" (27 June 1956) -- Typed
letters signed (December 1959) and her affirmative response (January 1960), inviting Jones
to serve on the Academy's Brain Registry Committee and the Committee for Evaluation of
Treatment.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
University of California, Los Angeles. Brain
Research Institute