Donation Suggestions

The Center for the History of Family Medicine (CHFM) seeks in-kind and monetary donations. Suggested types of materials CHFM is looking for are listed below. If you have something you would like to donate to the CHFM which relates to the history of family medicine in America and do not find it on this list, please contact the History Center.

Architectural renderings of family physician offices and buildings
Artifacts such as medical bags, clothing, instruments and other implements used by family physicians.
Artifacts such as family medicine organizations' jewelry, membership pins, clothing with the organizations' logo, etched glassware, souvenirs, etc.
Audio and video recordings pertaining to family medicine or family physicians.
Books relating to the history of the specialty and those written by or about family physicians
Correspondence, financial records, histories, minutes, reports, publications, newsletters, etc. of the principal family medicine organizations and their constituent chapters and groups. This includes, but is not limited to, AAFP and its constituent chapters, AAFP/F, ABFM, ADFM, AFMRD, NAPCRG and STFM.
Ephemera such as advertising cards, calling cards or business cards, trade catalogs, brochures, post cards, menus, tickets, posters, programs, signs, award certificates, invitations, catalogs, etc. relating to family medicine.
Legal documents
Membership lists and directories
News clippings
Oral histories
Paintings, drawings, caricatures, statues, cross-stitch designs, etc., in any type of media that document the public's perception of family physicians
Personal and professional papers of family physicians and family medicine educators
Photographs
Reports and speeches
Scrapbooks

Once accepted into the collections, all donations to CHFM are preserved in accordance with professional archival and museum standards.

Monetary contributions to CHFM also help to further the important work of the History Center in documenting the story of Family Medicine and are used in a variety of ways such as:

The design of displays and exhibits that highlight the history of the specialty
Repair and conservation of fragile materials
Appraisal and cataloging of office records and personal papers to facilitate access to the information therein
Online access to CHFM collections
Oral history interviews