Collection Dates: 1983

Scope and Content Note: Moving image recording of the dedication of State Historical Marker at the birthplace of Moss on Cobb St., Athens, Georgia and a sound recording of an orientation soundtrack.

Biographical Note: "William Lorenzo Moss, medical researcher and physician, was born in this house at 479 Cobb Street in Cobbham on August 23, 1876. Crawford W. Long was the attending physician. Dr. Moss received his B.S. degree from the University of Georgia in 1897 and the M.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1905. He taught at the latter school, at Yale, and at Harvard. In 1926 Dr. Moss was Acting Dean at Harvard's School of Public Health Medicine. In 1931 he was named Dean of the Medical Department of the University of Georgia (now the Medical College of Georgia)." For more information, see the National Historical Marker database.

Extent: 1 Umatic and 1 audio tape