This collection contains correspondence and reports and documents Florence Seibert's work at Yale University, under Lafayette Benedict Mendel; at the University of Chicago, under H. Gideon Wells; and at the Henry Phipps Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, 1932-1959. There are cancer research folders concerning her later work at the Mound Park Hospital Foundation and the Bay Pines V. A. Center, in St. Petersburg, Florida. There are also substancial amounts on Goucher College (her alma mater); Lilly Research Laboratories; Merck, Sharpe & Dohme; and Parke, Davis & Company.

Working on the Army Epidemiological Board in the 1940s, Joseph Stokes, Jr. discovered the value of gamma globulin for the prevention of epidemic hepatitis. His subsequent research included immunization against influenza, protection against poliomyelitis by gamma globulin, antigenic difference between epidemic and serum hepatitis, immunization procedures in mumps, development of a vaccine against measles. His clinical focus was on the causes and prevention of childhood infectious diseases. His administrative work includes the transformation of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. His community work consists of public health and environment control issues.