Hartman, Frank A., 1893-1986.
Frank A. Hartman papers, 1918-1975.
Correspondence (1927-70) with academic institutions, officials of government and cancer societies, and Philadelphia radiologists, relating to Hartman's services, including gifts of radium and exhibits of radioactive minerals; reports, catalogs, and price lists (1918-56) of radium products; photographs; and other papers relating to Harman's life and career.
Radium specialist and consultant, and owner of Radium Services, Philadelphia, PA, 1919-1956. Started selling radium products after World War I. In 1934 Hartman became a sales agent for radium from the Eldorado Mining and Refining Company of Canada, which along with the Atomic Energy Commission after World War II, supplied him with radium and various isotopes. By the late 1930s Hartman was acutely aware of the dangers of radium and took it upon himself to locate and recover pieces lost by area hospitals and industry until his retirement in 1956.
Radium.
Cancer -- Societies, etc.
Radioactive substances.
Photographs. aat
Price lists. aat
Catalogs. aat
Reports. aat
Radiologists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. lcsh
AIP-ICOS
Holy Family College. The Archives. Grant and Frankford Avenues, Philadelphia, PA, USA