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Joe E. Holoubek, M.D. and Alice Baker Holoubek, M.D. Collection
Collection Number MC002
Dates 1916 - 2006
Volume 19.26 cu.ft.
Provenance Donated by Martha Holoubek Fitzgerald in 2007.
Restrictions Available for research use by the serious student and scholar.
Copyright This collection may be protected from unauthorized copying by the
Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code).
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Joe E. Holoubek, M.D. and Alice Baker Holoubek, M.D. began their medical practice in
Shreveport, Louisiana in 1946. They spent their entire professional careers in Shreveport, where
they were also members of the Visiting Staff of the Louisiana State University Medical Center
(now LSU Health Sciences Center). Joe Holoubek was a main force in the effort to secure a
medical school in Shreveport, a dream that was realized with the establishment of the Louisiana
State University School of Medicine in Shreveport in 1966.
Joe Edward Holoubek was born in 1915 near Clarkson, Nebraska. He entered the University of
Nebraska at age 16 and was accepted at the University’s School of Medicine in Omaha two years
later. Holoubek was selected for a summer fellowship program at Mayo Clinic in 1937 and it
was here that he met his future wife, Alice Baker. He received his medical degree in 1938.
Alice Baker Holoubek was born in 1914 in Paragould, Arkansas. She graduated with top honors
from high school in Alexandria, Louisiana in 1931 and three years later, graduated from
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Alice Baker began her medical school studies at the
LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans and was one of the first women to graduate in 1938.
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Joe Holoubek interned in Omaha at University Hospital and Alice at Charity Hospital in New
Orleans. Both doctors were plagued with illnesses during their internships. Alice contracted
tuberculosis during one of her first rotations and spent a number of months at home recovering.
Joe was hospitalized with staph infections and scarlet fever. Despite these setbacks, they were
married in July 1939, shortly after accepting post-graduate fellowships at the LSU School of
Medicine in New Orleans. Joe was called to active duty during World War II and served in the
U.S. Army Medical Corps at LaGarde General Hospital in New Orleans until the War ended in
1945. Despite suffering health problems related to Alice’s tuberculosis, two of the Holoubek’s
four children were born in 1943 and 1945.
Dr. Richard Norfleet, a colleague at LaGarde, invited Joe Holoubek to join his practice in
Shreveport, Louisiana in 1946. A short time later, Holoubek established his own medical practice
in Shreveport. Alice once again had problems with tuberculosis, but in 1948 and 1951, two more
children joined the Holoubek family. By the early 1950s, her tuberculosis was under control and
Alice was able to join her husband’s practice. The Holoubeks were early believers in preventive
medicine and Joe Holoubek pioneered the use of the EKG machine in Shreveport. In the early
1980s, three young physicians, Alan Borne, Ken Booth and Maurice Hawley were added to the
Holoubeks’ practice. Alice retired in the mid-1980s and Joe retired in 1990.
Beginning in 1950, Dr. Joe Holoubek led the drive to establish a medical school in Shreveport.
He served as chair of the committee that in 1965 finally secured funding for the development of
the LSU School of Medicine in Shreveport. Both Joe and Alice served on the Visiting Staff of
the Confederate Memorial Medical Center as clinical professor of medicine and assistant
professor of medicine, respectively.
Alice Holoubek suffered from stroke-related dementia for several years before her death in 2005
and Joe Holoubek died of myocardial infarction in 2007. A Holoubek Professorship in Medicine
was created in 2006 at the LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and a professorship in the
name of Dr. Alice Baker Holoubek was established in 2008 at her alma mater in New Orleans.
A more detailed biography of Drs. Joe E. and Alice Baker Holoubek, written by their daughter,
Martha Holoubek Fitzgerald, can be found here. [note – I think I can make a link to another
Word document from here]
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SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Joe E. Holoubek and Alice Baker Holoubek Collection consists primarily of medical
equipment, devices, instruments, medicines, and supplies used in their medical practice in
Shreveport, Louisiana during the 1950s through the 1980s. Several artifacts used by Joe
Holoubek as a medical student in Nebraska include a second-hand microscope and a wooden box
of glass pathology slides used in his classes.
The Holoubek Collection is divided into eight series: Doctor’s Bags; Medical Instruments,
Equipment, and Supplies; Typescripts and Manuscripts; Slides; Plaques and Awards;
Audiovisuals; Books; and Medical Memorabilia.
The Doctors’ Bags series contains six doctor’s bags that were typical of those used for medical
house calls in the 1950s and 1960s. All of the bags are stocked with an assortment of medicines,
bandages, general supplies, syringes, stethoscopes, and blood pressure devices.
The Medical Instruments, Equipment, and Supplies series consists of artifacts that were
typically used in the offices of private practitioners in the 1950s through the 1980s. Instruments
include forceps, speculums, ear syringes, goggles, a Turkel trephine, hemostats, and suture
needles. Equipment includes ophthalmoscopes, an otoscope, haemacytometers, a head mirror, a
cervical traction set, an autoclave, a microscope used by Joe Holoubek as a medical student, a
bedside EKG and a Sanborn Viso Cardiette. General medical supplies include syringes, sharps,
tuberculin syringes, bottled medicines, pipettes, tongue depressors, ethyl chloride, prescription
pads, and letterhead stationery.
The Typescripts and Manuscripts series consists of copies of handwritten formulas for
prescriptions, poems about medicine, an article about women in medicine by Alice Holoubek
and a paper presented by Joe Holoubek about his cardiology practice in northwest Louisiana.
The Slides series contains both glass lantern slides and the more modern cardboard-mounted
film slides. The glass lantern slides depict diseases such as ulcers, heart disease, measles, mumps
and chicken pox. The film slides also deal primarily with medical topics such as cardiology,
childbirth, electrocardiographs, aging, family planning and “the Third Age,” or retirement. A
vintage Ednalite Projection Pointer (a precursor of a laser pointer) used in talks presented by the
Holoubeks is included.
The Plaques and Awards series contains plaques from the American College of Physicians,
American College of Cardiology, and the Council on Clinical Cardiology. Also included are
certificates for completion of internship and licenses to practice medicine in Louisiana.
The Audiovisuals series consists of professionally recorded glass and vinyl recordings and
videotapes concerned with medical topics such as heart sounds, diabetes, osteoporosis,
alcoholism and anxiety. Also included is a group of self-recorded tapes of presentations made
by the Holoubeks on retirement, sexuality and osteoporosis. Recordings produced by
pharmaceutical companies that mix product advertising (Miltown, Appetrol, Milpath) with
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ecorded music (Beethoven, Schubert, Smetana) include the Wallace Laboratories Recorded
Medical Library.
The Books series consists of the books used by Alice Baker Holoubek in preparing her lectures
and workshops about sex in marriage and religion. Titles include How to be a happily married
mistress, Sexual awareness, Sexual ethics and Christian responsibility and Marriage is for
grownups.
The Medical Memorabilia series contains postage stamps depicting doctors and medical topics,
prints of “The Doctor” by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, figurines depicting physicians, men’s ties
with medical themes and a lab coat worn by Dr. Joe E. Holoubek. A pull-down wall chart
entitled “Intra-Uterine Life” by Gustave Michel was published in 1916.
This Collection does not include any of the documents generated by Dr. Joe Holoubek in his
quest to establish a medical school in Shreveport. Materials related to that and many other events
in the lives of Joe and Alice Holoubek can be found at the Louisiana State University
Shreveport’s Archives and Special Collections. The following links will provide additional
information: http://scripts.lsus.edu/libarchives/collections.php?collection=628
http://scripts.lsus.edu/libarchives/collections.php?collection=637
SERIES
A. Doctors’ Bags
B. Medical Instruments, Equipment and Supplies
C. Typescripts and Manuscripts
D. Slides
E. Plaques and Awards
F. Audiovisuals
G. Books
H. Medical Memorabilia
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BOX LIST
Box 1
Doctor’s Bag #1
Light brown top grain cowhide bag manufactured by Schell (#10-148 14). 4”x 9”x 6”.
Contents
bottle of alcohol
alcohol prep pads
cotton balls
glass ampules of medicine
medicines
disposable gloves
tongue depressors
Johnson & Johnson first aid kit in metal container
disposable syringes
medical sponges
surgical dressing
obstetrical towelettes
Littmann stethoscope
Taylor Instrument Company portable blood pressure device C221. Rochester, N.Y.
(Tycos)
Baumanometer mercurial blood pressure apparatus. Model 300. (Desk model) In gray metal
case. Tycos pre-calibrated cuff.
Box 2
Doctor’s Bag #2
Black leather top grain cowhide. 14”x 6”x 6”.
Contents
box of syringes and medicines
disposable gloves
bronkometer
prescription forms imprinted “Joe E. Holoubek M.D., Alan J. Borne M.D., Kenneth E.
Booth M.D., Maurice A. Hawley M.D., 1801 Fairfield Suite 301, Shreveport LA”.
tongue depressors
prefilled syringe
BMS Exactus II blood pressure device
stethoscope – Jetliner Misdom-Frank Germany
disposable plastic syringes (2)
cotton balls
bottle of vistaril
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Dramamine
Cotton balls
Baumanometer mercurial blood pressure apparatus. Kompak model (desk model).
In gray metal case with engraved plate on top reading “Alice Baker Holoubek, M.D.”
Manufactured by Baum. Tycos pre-calibrated cuff.
Box 3
Doctor’s Bag #3
Organizer of black textured leather made by Schell. Stamped “Joe E. Holoubek, M.D.”
Two interior compartments and one pocket. 15” x 11” x 5.5”.
Contents
Compartment 1
stethoscope marked Medics-Bowles Made in U.S.A.
Compartment 2 Outside pocket
original tag “Schell Leather Goods, Cincinnati EMDEE Organizer 5681-54425
original instruction for the snap-lock from Schell.
back leatherette folder labeled “The House Call Record” inside is a pad of forms for
recording information about house call patients.
Compartment 2
bundle of cotton swabs
tube of tongue blades (tongue depressors)
bandaids
alcohol prep cloths
glass vials of medicines
bandages
syringes
disposable gloves
Doctor’s Bag #4
Light brown top grain cowhide bag manufactured by Kruse. 14” x 8” x 7”.
Contents
tongue depressors
adhesive tape
bottle of alcohol
bandages
gauze pads
alcohol swabs
disposable gloves
obstetrical towelettes
aspirin in a tin container
syringes
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Box 4
prefilled Xylocaine syringes
snake bite kit
snake bite kit – suction (packed 8/53) Geo. W. Luft Co. L.I.C., N.Y.
box for Donnazyme by Robins (medicine not in there)
various boxes of bandages
stethoscope Bowles Model made in USA chrome – Dittmar
box of Anacin-3 dated 1989
box of Advil dated 1989
prescription pad for “Joe E. Holoubek, M.D., Alice Baker Holoubek, M.D.,
Alan J. Borne M.D., Ken E. Booth M.D., 1513 Line Avenue, Shreveport
Doctor’s Bag #5
Two- handled bag of black cobbled leather. Top half of bag is hinged and opens into two
separate sections that lie flat to either side when opened. Bottom half of bag also gives storage
for instruments, etc. Label on inside reads “a genuine Pandora…” 17” x 10” x 6”.
Contents
Left side compartment 1
glass containers of medicines manufactured by Searle, Lilly, Parke-Davis, Sharpe &
Dohme (18 items)
Left side compartment 2
professional sample packets of Tabloid Empirin compound (7 items)
gauze pads (2 items)
glass test tube
roll of adhesive tape
glass vials of medicine in boxes (10 items)
glass vial of medicine
Right side compartment 1
roll bandage
prescription medicine from Williams Physicians and Surgeons Pharmacy on Jordan
Street, Shreveport dated 9/26/53
prescription from Williams Physicians and Surgeons Pharmacy No. 2 1509 Line Ave.,
Shreveport
glass slides wrapped in paper towel
syringes
various medicines
Bottom of bag
black zipper case containing 8 glass bottles of medicines and liquids
bottle of Murine
small box of cotton and one blade
adhesive tape in a container
prescription from Williams Physicians and Surgeons Pharmacy No. 2 1509 Line Ave.,
Shreveport
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gauze pads
professional samples of Bonamine
glass bottle of alcohol (evaporated)
glass bottle of paregoric
stethoscope – Pilling
special stethoscope Bowles patent. G.P. Pilling & Son Philadelphia U.S.A.
extra stethoscope diaphragm – same markings as above
tube of sterile lubricant
various medicines
Doctor’s Bag #6
Kodak camera bag used as small emergency medicine bag carried in the car.
Contents
medicine
disposable syringes
rubber tubing
alcohol prep pads
bandaids
Box 5
Hematology Analysis Kit
includes reagents and glass pipettes to be used in conjunction with a hemocytometer to
count white and red blood cells. Manufactured by B-P (Bard-Parker Co., Danbury,
Connecticut). In off-white plastic case
Gebauer’s Ethyl Chloride. Gebauer Chemical Co., Cleveland, Ohio. (circa 1942)
Used for topical refrigerant for local and general anesthetic. 100 gram tube in cardboard box
(3 tubes)
Haemacytometer by Adams.
In red leatherette case
May Ophthalmoscope. American Optical Company. No. 115S. In black case. Battery operated.
The May ophthalmoscope was invented by Charles H. May, M.D. around 1915.
Used in the practice of Drs. Holoubek and Holoubek in the 1950s.
Ophthalmoscope and accessories. Manufactured by Boehm, Rochester, NY.
All contained in a black case.
Used in the practice of Drs. Holoubek and Holoubek in the 1950s.
Ophthalmoscope accessories. Manufactured by Welch & Allyn.
green plastic specula (2)
Sentinel utility first aid kit. Manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio.
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metal box only, no contents.
Simplex Otoscope by Wellsworth-DeZeng Diagnostic Instruments.
In black case.
Spencer Bright Line Haemacytometer. Spencer Lens Co., Buffalo, NY.
In red cloth covered case.
Box 6
Instruments and equipment
Biopsy forceps
Boilo head mirror 4x12 in box. Manufactured by Carstens, Norridge, Illinois
Boehm ophthalmoscope handle
Ear syringe, red rubber
hook – Kny-Scheerer Germany
Metal handle for instrument
Polaroid goggle No 1060 with red tint lenses
Rubber reflex hammer
Safety goggles with red tint lenses
Scalpel handle, Bard-Parker #3 (2)
Speculum, small, two pieces (R3 engraved)
Steel nasal speculum
Trocar, abdominal (4)
Unidentified device with bakelite handle, two metal probes and two electrical or
electrode connections. Manufactured by National. Long Island, N.Y. (in cardboard box)
Vaginal speculum
Box 7
EKG tapes (7)
OptiVisor safety device manufactured by Donegan Optical Company.
A precision binocular headband magnifier.
Roll of chart paper to be used with a McKesson Metabolor apparatus. Chart paper M-147.
(unused) in red cardboard box.
Vital Capacity Apparatus manufactured by McKesson-Scott. Green metal apparatus with
black rubber bellows and hose.
Used to measure pulmonary capacity.
Box 8
Clay-Adams Scopelite.
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BD Empire all-metal syringe (4 oz.) with two removable tips. In brown cardboard box.
#478/4 manufactured Becton, Dickinson & Co., Rutherford, NJ.
Bulb and bag set used for intermittent inhalation of aerosol medication, circa 1950.
In orange box with label for a different item.
Bulb and bag set used for proctoscopic exams
Collapsible metal pointer
Laser pointer
Long metal with twisted ends (2)
Lucite letter opener from Tranxene
Metal caliphers
Metal topped glass receptacle with perforated metal tray insert used for boiling syringes,
needles and instruments during the era when boiling was considered adequate sterilization.
Contains 3 glass syringes. B-P trademark circa 1940s.
Pen flashlight
Pen from Vasotec with pills embedded in handle
Pen engraved with Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
Pocket road atlas distributed by LSU School of Medicine Medical Alumni Assn.
Box 9
Syringes
B-D 2cc Multifit syringe with 2 needles (5 sets)
B-D 2cc Multifit syringe with 2 needles (Holoubek and Bianca practice) 3 sets
B-D Dynafit 2cc glass syringe with 2 needles
B-D Multifit 2cc glass syringe with 2 needles dated 7/17/64
B-D Multifit 5cc glass syringe with 2 needles
B-D Yale 10cc spinal needle used for spinal taps at home dated 7-17-64
B-D Yale Luer-Lok 20cc glass syringe with 2 needles (2 sets) one set dated 4/23/68
B-D Yale Luer-Lok 2cc glass syringe with 2 needles (2 sets)
B-D Yale tuberculin syringe – blue glass plunger in clear glass syringe with needle
B-D Yale tuberculin syringe with needle
Glass syringe
Ideal Lock 5cc glass syringe, green plunger with 2 needles (2 sets) one dated 4/23/68
Super ward 2cc glass syringe with 2 needles
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Glass vials filled with medicines (8)
Pipettes with rubber tubing (2)
Wooden tongue depressor
Box 10
Glass pathology slides from medical school (66). The “Object Register” indicated that the box is
the property of Joe E. Holoubek.
Box of ½ ounce microscopic cover glass squares
box with two round glass covers
box of Dennison gummed labels used for identification
metal holder of some sort.
Joe Holoubek Sr. blood slides 1948-52 (laboratory slides)
Norton Abrasives – a hone used to sharpen reusable needles
Turkel trephine (instrument for bone marrow infusions) one set. Manufactured by Trephine
Instruments, Detroit, Michigan. [1 item missing from box].
Vaginal pipettes No. A-2263 for the Papanicolaou stain technic. Manufactured by Clay-
Adams, Inc. New York 10, N.Y.
Red outer box with 11 interior boxes, each box with two pipettes.
B-D Sterile disposable glass syringe
Hypak 25 No. 701 DN ½ cc. with detachable needle 26g. 3/8 intradermal
Cassette tapes in box (label on outside indicates more tapes that what are present)
LSUMC 50 th “This I Remember” #1
LSUMC 50 th “This I Remember” #2
Development of LSUMC – Shreveport 1980
Father Carroll address to Family Medicine Dept. 4/15/80
Individuality of Life – Ratney, Dr. Wilkinson, President Nixon & ACC
Box 11
Green Baret cervical traction set, overhead (1200-S) manufactured by the Larkotex Co.,
Texarkana, Texas
Surgical kit dated 8/22/63 containing:
Metal scissors (1)
Metal hemostats (2)
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glass syringe, 2cc and sharp
surgical thread
threaded suture needle in gauze pad
Surgical tray wrapped and taped after going through the autoclave
Glasco glass beaker
glass tubes (3)
sharps (5)
glass syringe, 2cc
thermometers in metal bracket (2)
Box 12
Autoclave with covered white enamel pan containing several wrapped and sterilized
Instruments
Box 13
Spencer Microscope, Buffalo New York. #120476 printed on back. In wooden case with
additional lenses. Handwritten label on front reads “Joe E. Holoubek So 33.”
Microscope purchase second-hand by Joe Holoubek, used as a medical student.
Box 14
Burdick CS 515 Monitor used at the bedside to monitor EKG. Circa 1970s.
Box 15
Sanborn Viso Cardiette manufactured in Cambridge, Mass. Brass plate reads “made for Joe E.
Holoubek, M.D.” With tray of accessories. Circa 1950s
Box 16
Prescription pads imprinted with:
J.E. Holoubek, M.D. and Alice Baker Holoubek, M.D.
J.E. Holoubek, M.D.
Dr. Alice Baker Holoubek
Joe E. Holoubek, M.D. and Alice Baker Holoubek, M.D. and Alan J. Borne, M.D.
Joe E. Holoubek, M.D. and Alice Baker Holoubek, M.D. and Alan J. Borne, M.D. and
Ken E. Booth, M.D.
Joe E. Holoubek, M.D. and Alan J. Borne, M.D. and Ken E. Booth, M.D. and Maurice A.
Hawley, III, M.D.
Rubber stamp used when office relocated.
Appointment card holder with Zestril logo
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Page from July 1960 calendar with days crossed off.
Stationary, blank, imprinted with:
Dr. Alice Holoubek
Dr. and Mrs. Joe E. Holoubek
Mrs. J. E. Holoubek
Alice Baker Holoubek, M.D.
from the desk of Dr. Alice Baker Holoubek
from the desk of Dr. J.E. Holoubek
Drs. Holoubek and Holoubek
Samples of office stationary reading “Drs. Holoubek and Holoubek / a professional
corporation / 1513 Line Avenue / Shreveport, LA. 71101 / Joe E. Holoubek, M.D. / Alice Baker
Holoubek, M.D.”
Letter sent by Joe E. Holoubek to patients when he stopped the practice of medicine, turning
his patients over to his former partners Dr. Borne, Dr. Booth and Dr. Hawley.
“Women in medicine, or, the woman question” by Alice Baker Holoubek, M.D., May 1986.
typescript, 12 pp.
“Our experience in the practice of cardiology in northwest Louisiana through the years” by
Joe E. Holoubek. Paper presented to the state meeting of the Louisiana Section of the American
College of Cardiology.
Typescript, 17 pp.
“The Corner Drug Store”
handwritten manuscript about a small town drugstore, 5 pp.
“Old Prescriptions” 15 pages of handwritten formulas for prescriptions (photocopies). Many on
the prescription pad of J.B. Story, M.D. Hot Springs, Arkansas and C.P .Battle & Bro, Druggists
in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Formula for “Kerwin’s Mixture” handwritten on prescription blank from Schumpert Memorial
Sanitarium Shreveport, Louisiana
Brown spiral composition book with typed poems about medicine.
typescript, 102 pp.
Poems about growing old
Typescript, 7 pp.
“A Physician’s Prayer” printed cards (4)
Correspondence regarding the 60 th reunion of the LSUMC class of 1938
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Correspondence and other materials pertaining to “The Third Age,” a weekend workshop
presented by the Holoubeks.
Pamphlets about medical topics, mostly related to aging and cardiac diseases
Newspaper article about Joe Holoubek winning the Shreveport Medical Society Distinguished
Service award (no date)
Box 17
Glass lantern slides (3 ¼” x 4”)
Bonthine and duodenal ulcers (6)
thyroid (6)
heart disease USA (2)
measles / mumps (6)
Rubella / chicken pox (6)
Examination: Gastric contents, feces / Procto / Psychogenic causes of illness (11)
Film slides (2”x2” in cardboard or plastic casing)
Circulation and the heart (25 in small black case)
Rescue Breathing (29 in 2 boxes)
A child is born (16)
Healthcare in Louisiana 1991 (54)
Heart Facts (49 in 2 boxes)
Rheumatic fever (10)
Preventive heart disease (38 in 2 boxes)
Schumpert cardiac rehab (86 in 3 boxes)
Heart - talk on rheumatic fever (8)
Cardiac emergencies (9)
Heart medicine, Medical (40)
Physicians should be conservative in appearance (21)
Pulmonary embolism #1 (25)
Pulmonary embolism #2 (20)
Electrocardiographs (14)
Medical Office – 1513 Line Ave. (15)
Medical 1950 (13)
Medical (12)
Medical talk (7)
Medical (14)
Diaphragmatic hernia (41 mix of glass and cardboard mounted)
The Third Age #2 (64 in 3 boxes)
Third Age (52 in 2 boxes)
Aging (26)
Family Planning (80 in 4 boxes))
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Box 18
Medical (33 in 2 boxes)
Film slides (2”x 2” in cardboard or plastic casing)
Exercise Test EKG (47 in 2 boxes)
When Life Blooms Full. Intro (40 in 2 boxes)
Cassette with narration for this filmstrip
Catholic physicians (52 in 2 boxes)
Unidentified slides (253)
Roots of LSU Medical School Shreveport (moved to LSUHSC-S history slide collection)
Medical School (moved to LSUHSC-S history slide collection)
Ednalite Projection Pointer used for talks given by Holoubek
Box 19
The Joe E. Holoubek, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Medicine at LSUHSC in Shreveport. Dr.
Pratap C. Reddy named to professorship on August 29, 2006, certificate signed by John C.
McDonald.
Framed certificate
American College of Physicians, April 27, 1947. Joe Edward Holoubek, M.D. elected Fellow.
Framed certificate
Joe E. Holoubek, M.D. In appreciation for the foresight, dedication and endurance that brought
into existence the Medical School of Louisiana State University Medical Center Shreveport.
Presented by the LSU Medical School Graduates of 1993.
plaque
Box 20
American College of Cardiology. Certificate of Appreciation. J.E. Holoubek is commended for
his service and contribution as Governor of Louisiana for the American College of Cardiology
1973-1976.
Plaque
Council on Clinical Cardiology, American Heart Association. This certificate bears witness that
Joseph E. Holoubek has met criteria of eligibility and has been duly elected a Fellow of the
Council on Clinical cardiology. Dated October 15, 1970.
Plaque
University of Nebraska School of Medicine certificate for service as an Intern at the University
Hospital from July 1, 1938 to July 1, 1939 to Joe Edward Holoubek.
Plaque
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Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. Alice Elizabeth Baker [Holoubek] license to
practice medicine in Louisiana dated June 15, 1939.
Plaque
Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. Joe Edward Holoubek license to practice medicine
in Louisiana dated December 9, 1939.
Plaque
Louisiana chapter of the American College of Cardiology recognizes Joe E. Holoubek, MD,
FACC for his distinguished service and contribution during his career. Presented December 5,
1998.
Plaque
Shreveport Journal September 21, 1949. Section commemorating the 100 th anniversary of
the Shreveport Medical Society.
Newspaper section
Shreveport Journal Oct. 28, 1977. Article on land acquisition for expansion of LSU Medical
Center.
Newspaper section
Box 21
Audiovisuals
Alzheimer’s disease: one question at a time…one day at a time. National Council on Aging,
1997. (educational program sponsored by Pfizer) VHS
Anxiety and a Decade of Tranquilizer Therapy Highlights from a symposium sponsored by
Wallace Laboratories April 1, 1964. Pictorial review and recording of the luncheon address by
Edward R. Annis, President, American Medical Association. Wallace Laboratories, 1964. 33 1/3
rpm LP recording.
Cardiology Update Audio Digest, 1974. 6 cassettes in plastic notebook
Auscultation of the Heart by J.B. Barlow and W.A. Pocock. London, no date [after 1961] 33 1/3
rpm LP recording
Stethoscopic heart sounds. Cartrax, no date. 7” 33 1/3 rpm recording
Changing perceptions of left ventricular dysfunction by Fetnat Fouad-Tarazi, M.D.. Pfizer,
1993. VHS
Dr. Ashmead [about chelated minerals and how they affect the body]. (self-recorded tape) VHS
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Heart recordings by George D. Geckeler, M.D. Columbia Masterworks, no date. 33 1/3 rpm LP
recording
Losing your memory and how to bring it back recorded October 24, 1996
A-Z on Alzheimer’s: new advances on the horizon recorded November 7, 1996 (self-recorded
tape). VHS
Metabolic abnormalities in diabetes (Postgraduate Seminars: Diabetes-Concepts and Problems
#3). Excerpta Medical, 1966. 33 1/3 rpm LP recording
Osteoporosis: the most prevalent bone disease by William C. Kuzell. CIBA Clinical Record
v.2(2). CIBA, 1961. 33 1/3 rpm LP recording.
Alcoholism by Carroll Witten, M.D. (Psychiatric Consultations #3). Roche Record Report, 1964.
33 1/3 rpm LP recording
Anxiety as a clinical indicator, part 1 by Carroll Witten, M.D. (Psychiatric Consultations #4).
Roche Record Report, 1965. 33 1/3 rpm LP recording
Retirement: Golden years or depression recorded on September 26
Life begins when? Myths about sexuality… recorded October 3
I’ve fallen and I can’t get up… recorded October 10
Hormones, calcium or exercise: Osteoporosis… recorded October 17. (self-recorded tape) VHS
The Electronic Classroom by Jeffrey Schrank. A Thomas More Meditape Program, 1974 3
cassettes in case.
The failing heart: new directions. American College of Cardiology, 1996. VHS
The Medical Letter Audio Update various subjects. Medical Letter, 1978, 1979. 10 cassette tapes.
Vascular complications of Diabetes Mellitus (Postgraduate Seminars: Diabetes-Concepts and
Problems #2). Excerpta Medical, 1965. 33 1/3 rpm LP recording
Interpreting Heart Sounds part A number 4
Wallace Laboratories Recorded Medical Library – 33 1/3 rpm hi-fi recording
Appetrol: A new product for effective appetite control (Side 1)
The twelve days of Christmas (Side 2)
Miltown: Improved management of the OBG patient (Side 1)
Smetana: Trio in G Minor Op.15 (Side 2)
Wallace Laboratories Recorded Medical Library – 33 1/3 rpm hi-fi recording
Observations on the conservative management of orthopedic conditions (Side 1)
Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 5 (Side 2)
Milpath: Peptic ulcer therapy under different physician-patient relationships (Side 1)
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Schubert Qunitet in A major, Op. 114 (Side 2)
Boxed set of 7” 33 1/3 rpm LP recordings issued by Sharpe & Dohme advertising Hydrocortone
/ Cortone.
12 records from the “Voices from the Past” series includes:
Pope Pius XII
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
Theodore Roosevelt
Madame Schumann-Heink
George M. Cohan
Wallace Laboratories presents… (collection of 5 recordings)
Recording presented by White Laboratories manufacturers of Gitaligin
Normal and pathologic heart sounds (side 1)
Pathologic heart sounds (side 2)
Practical Corticosteroid Therapy recording by Upjohn (33 1/3 7”)
R.H. Freyberg, M.D. Rheumatologist
M.B. Sulzberger, M.D. Dermatologist
S.M. Feinberg, M.D. Allergist
P.H. Forsham, M.D. Endocrinologist
Box 22
Books used by Alice Baker Holoubek in her talks about sex in marriage
How to be a happily married mistress by Lois Bird. Doubleday, 1970.
How to make your wife your mistress by Lois Bird. Doubleday, 1972. (2 copies)
Masturbation techniques for women/ getting in touch by Toni Ayres. Multi Media Resource
Center, 1972.
Sex: the radical view of a Catholic theologian by Michael Valente. NY: Bruce Publishing, 1970.
Sexual awareness: a practical approach by Barry W. McCarthy. Boyd & Fraser, 1975.
Sexual ethics and Christian responsibility by John C. Wynn. NY: Association Press, 1970.
The marriage gap by Stanley Rosner and Laura Hobe. NY: David McKay, 1974.
The new sexuality: myths, fables and hang-ups by Eugene C. Kennedy. Doubleday, 1972.
Inscribed by author.
Woman’s orgasm: a guide to sexual satisfaction by Georgia L. Kline-Graber and Benjamin
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Graber. Bobbs-Merrill, 1975.
You can last longer (The Yes book of sex) by Herbert E. Vandervoort, Multi Media Resource
Center, 1972.
Box 23
Books used by Alice Baker Holoubek in her talks about sex in marriage
Any woman can! by David Reuben. Bantam, 1971.
Everything you never wanted to know about sex* by Sol Weinstein. Paperback Library, 1971.
How to make your husband your lover by Lois Bird. Bantam, 1973.
Love by Rosemary Haughton. Penguin Books, 1970.
Marriage is for grownups by Joseph and Lois Bird. Image Books, 1971.
Open marriage by Nena O’Neill and George O’Neill. Avon, 1972.
The power of sexual surrender by Marie N. Robinson, M.D. Signet, 1959.
Box 24
Framed collage of various postage stamps depicting doctors and medical topics. Also a full sheet
of three-cent stamps depicting “The Doctor” a painting by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes.
Louisiana Heart Association President 1956-1957 presented to Joe E. Holoubek, M.D.
Heart-shaped plaque
Prints of “The Doctor” by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes. (3 copies)
Box 25
Physician figurines (7)
Box 26
Handmade figurine depicting Joe E. Holoubek, M.D. teaching
Box 27
Gray lab coat worn by Dr. Joe E. Holoubek
Men’s ties with medical themes (2)
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Box 28
Pull-down chart of “Intra-Uterine Life” by Gustave Michel. c1916.
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