MASA Membership Card

The membership card for the Medical Association of Alabama was issued to John Little Jr. by the organization in 1872. A Tuscaloosa native, Little was a physician for the Alabama Light Artillery during the Civil War and then took a position with Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa. He later went on to a banking career.

Membership card for the Medical Association of the State of Alabama's 1872 annual meeting in Huntsville, showing the handwritten name of a delegate and a printed list of association officers.
Courtesy of the University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections
Membership card for the Medical Association of the State of Alabama's 1872 annual meeting in Huntsville, showing the handwritten name of a delegate and a printed list of association officers.