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General Materials: This series is comprised of ten subseries: awards and honors; biographical; general correspondence (1933-1989); licenses and certificates; Louis Harry Newburgh files; Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Oral History Project (1978); papers; photographs; and slides.

The biographical materials include an exhaustive curriculum vitae of William Dodd Robinson and a bibliography of all articles and papers he wrote.

The General Correspondence is arranged chronologically from 1933 to 1989. The correspondence as a whole is not consistent because Robinson divided his files according to subject and filed correspondence in several places. As a result there is often correspondence in both topical as well as in the correspondence files. This is also the reason there is a gap from 1958 to 1975 in the correspondence files. Researchers should look in the topical files for correspondence to these years.

The Louis Harry Newburgh files have been retained because Newburgh had an influence on Robinson's career, and Newburgh was quite prominent in the fields of arthritis and rheumatology. Robinson was involved in helping to write a biography of Newburgh after Newburgh's death; these materials were probably part of Robinson's research.

In 1978 the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library interviewed Robinson as part of their Oral History Project. A transcript of this interview is here as well as some correspondence. Robinson was asked to participate in this project as he was an individual whose career coincided with the Eisenhower Administration, and someone who had a definite impact on the field of nutrition, specifically metabolic diseases. This interview provides a rather detailed description of Robinson's career through Robinson's eyes.

The photographs are divided into departmental photographs, research and case study photographs, portraits, and personal photographs. Some are labelled. There are some slides that Robinson used for lectures and presentations.