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Auchincloss Florence Nightingale Collection   Freud Library   Columbia University Medical Center Archives   Hyman Collection in the History of Anesthesiology   Personal Papers and Manuscripts Jump to another finding aid Abramson, Harold - Papers, 1899-1974 Alexander, Hattie Elizabeth - Papers, 1939-1981. Andersen, Dorothy H. - Papers, 1930-1965 Andrew Syngrou Hospital - Photograph Album, c.1929 Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists, 1957-1992 Auchincloss, Hugh - "Report to the Surgical Department...," 1915 Babies Hospital Alumni Association - Records, 1927-2000 Babies Hospital Board of Women Managers - Records, 1889-1995 Babies Hospital - Case Records, 1932-1955 Babies Hospital - Historical Collection, 1887-1994 Babies Hospital - Patient Records, 1889-1929 Bakers Weekly - Press clippings: editorial campaign... 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Dunning, William B. - Papers, 1881-1970 Elinson, Jack - Papers, 1917-2005 Eliot, Ellsworth Jr. - Operation Record Books, 1900-1912 Emerson, Haven - Papers, 1905-1965 Engle, Earl T. - Papers, 1896-1970 Evans, James M. - Account Book, c.1890-1901 Ewen McIntyre & Son (New York, N.Y.) - Prescription record books, 1863-1888 Experiment (Ship) - Register of Sick & Prescriptions, 1833-1834 Forbes, Henry Hall - Papers, c.1886-1890 Fortuine, F. Esther - Papers, 1917-1960 Freud, Sigmund - Letters, 1921-1922 Freud, Sigmund - Totem und Tabu [manuscript, c.1912] Friedman, Emanuel - Papers, 1953-1989 Frühwald, Victor - Notebook and album, 1913-1930 Geddings, William H. - Casebooks, 1880-1894 Gies, William John - Collection, 1864-1958 Gill, Elizabeth - Papers, 1937-1968 Gilliam, James S., Notebook and Account Book, c.1786-1787 Goodrich, M. M. - Papers, 1975-2006 Graham Family - Papers, 1773-1825. Greig, Alexander - Letters, 1826-1849 Gurnsey, Lowell Walter - Notebook, 1822-1839 Hanway, Betty Nordstrom - Scrapbook, 1948-1951, 1970 Harter, Donald - Papers, 1899-1998 Hawkins, Wilma Stevens - "Five Years in Syria," 1934-1939 Herman Knapp Memorial Hospital - Case Books, 1869-1939. Hillard, William Avery - Casebook, 1897-1903 Hilleboe, Herman - Papers, 1931-1968 Hodgkins, David Webb - Papers, 1820-1898 Hogan, Aileen I. - "Letters from Second General...," 1942-1945 Holt, L. Emmett - Patient Records, 1901-1923 Howe, Benjamin - Ledger, 1811-1822 Huber, Francis - Papers, 1897-1932 Hunt, James Ramsay - Casebooks, 1903-1936 Jarvie, William - Papers, c.1856-1918 Jolliffe, Norman - Papers, 1901-1961 Lamb, Albert R. - Papers, 1908-1957 Lee, Frederic Schiller - Papers, 1867-1933 Lenz, Maurice - Papers, 1902-1977 Link, Eugene P. - Papers, 1945-1992 Longitudinal Harlem Adolescent Health Study - Records, 1967-1999 Maternity Center Association - Records, 1907-1997 May, Charles H. - Papers, 1883-1966 McIntosh, Rustin - Papers, 1932-1974 McIntosh, Rustin - Papers, 1917-1986 Merritt, Houston H. - Papers, 1917-1979 Meyer, Karl - Papers, 1932-1992 Montmarquet, Joseph Didier - Papers, 1887-1907 Natanson, David M. - Papers, 1906-1966 Neurological Institute - Patient Records, 1909-1940 New York Orthopaedic Hospital - Patient Records, 1870-1950 New York-Presbyterian Hospital Auxiliary - Records, 1952-2002 Opler, Marvin Kaufmann - Papers, 1915-1979 Orton, Samuel T. and June Lyday - Case Files, 1928-1977 Orton, Samuel T. and June Lyday - Papers, 1901-1977 Peking Union Medical College. Postgraduate Course in Surgery - Notes, 1923-1924 Pharmacist's Prescription Record Book (NY, NY), 1887-1888 Pharmacy of St. Paul (Bologna, Italy) - Record Book, 1588-1616 Potter, Howard - Autobiography Presbyterian Hospital (NY, NY) - Autopsy Reports, 1872-1911, 1917-1919 Presbyterian Hospital (NY, NY) - Patient Records, 1872-c.1970s Presbyterian Hospital (NY, NY) - Surgical casebooks, 1875-1896, 1905-1915 Presbyterian Hospital (NY, NY), Surgical Pathology Lab - Albums, c.1915-c.1933 Prichard, Elizabeth R. - History of social work at Presbyterian Hospital, 1904-1980 Richardson, Samuel A. - Papers, 1856-1865. Riley, Henry Alsop - Papers, 1908-1963 Seguin, E. C. - Estate Records, 1898. Severinghaus, Aura E. - Papers, 1910-1979 Shookhoff, Howard B. - Papers, 1943-1977 Silva-Hutner, Margarita - Medical Mycology Laboratory Collection, 1929-1996 Simers, William L. - Daybook and scrapbook, 1798-1810 Sloane Hospital for Women - Patient Records, 1888-1928 Smith, Harry Pratt - Papers, 1941-1959 Stout, Arthur Purdy - Collection of Tumor Literature, c.1906-1962 Stout, Arthur Purdy - Papers, 1885-1985 Taylor, Howard C. - History of the Int'l Inst. Study Human Repro.,1953-1968 Timme, Walter - Papers, 1907-1939, 1945-1947. Townsend, Peter S. - Casebook, 1817-1819 Townsend, Peter S. - Daily register..., 1847 Tuttle, George Montgomery - Casebooks, 1895-1909 U.S. Base Hospital #2 - "The Dooins," 1917-1918 Vanderbilt Clinic - Patient Records, 1914-1928 Vivisection Papers, 1875-1947 Vivisection Scrapbooks, 1908, 1910-1914, 1920-1921, 1923 Ward, Maya Rivière - Papers, 1890-1991 Wadsworth, Augustus B. - Papers, 1897-1916 Webster, Jerome P. - Collection of Plastic Surgery Reprints, c.1907-c.1976 Webster, Jerome P. - Papers, 1545-1975. Yahr, Melvin D. - L-dopa Case Records, c.1930-c.1985 Yaskin, Joseph C., "History of U.S.A. General Hospital No. 1," 1919 Personal Papers and Manuscripts CLEMENT C. CLAY, 1905-1978. Papers, 1917-1977 (bulk 1925-1970). 3.75 cubic feet (5 boxes, 2 cartons, 1 flat box) BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Clement Claiborne Clay, hospital administrator and professor, was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on Dec. 8, 1905 and was raised in Atlanta and Minneapolis. He received his A.B. from Columbia University in 1927 and his medical degree from McGill University in 1932. After an internship at St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, NY, he attended the University of Chicago School of Business as a Julius Rosenwald Fellow in Hospital Administration. After military service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Clay became the founder and first director of the Program in Hospital Administration at the Yale University School of Medicine. In 1954 he was named Associate Professor of Administrative Medicine at the Columbia University School of Public Health and Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Hospital Administration. He became sole Director of the program in 1961 and was made a full professor in 1965. Clay retired in January 1970; he died January 16, 1978. ORGANIZATION: Organized in six series: I. Subjects & Correspondence; II. Diaries & Notebooks; III. Ephemera & Juvenilia; IV. Photographs; V. Oversize, Printed Material & Artifacts; VI. Oversize Photographs & Certificates. SCOPE AND CONTENT: Correspondence, largely incoming; photographs; notebooks and diaries; military service records; ephemera; and artifacts documenting the life of Clement C. Clay. There is almost nothing relating to his work as Director of Columbia’s Graduate Program in Hospital Administration and only a few family letters. While the correspondence dates back to the 1920s, the bulk consists of letters received from former students, colleagues, and friends at the time of Clay’s retirement in Jan. 1970. The letters reveal the warm regard in which Clay’s students held him. Some of this correspondence is loose, but most is contained in an album created for Clay’s retirement dinner (see Box 6). The single largest topic documented in the papers is Clay’s military service in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Clay first led Naval Field Medical Photographic Unit #2; near the end of the war he received an executive position aboard the U.S. Naval Hospital Ship Repose. Included in the papers are correspondence; reports; official orders; “plans of the day” for the Repose; and much printed matter, ephemera, and artifacts. The papers also include some of Clay’s medical school notebooks; several diaries; correspondence, newspaper clippings, and ephemera relating to Columbia and McGill; a childhood scrapbook; and ephemera. Many of the photographs document medical care in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and were presumably taken by the Field Medical Photographic Unit Clay commanded. There are also many of Clay’s retirement dinner. Some of these are loose, but most are in a photo album presented to him after the dinner. LANGUAGE: English. PROVENANCE: Transfer from the Mailman School of Public Health, 1998 (acc. no. 1998.12.21) SUBJECTS Clay, Clement C., 1905-1978. Columbia University. School of Public Health. Graduate Program in Hospital Administration. McGill University. Faculty of Medicine. Hospital ships – United States. Hospitals – Administration – Study and teaching – United States. Hospitals, Naval and marine – United States. Medicine, Naval – United States. World War, 1939-1945 – Medical care. Hospital Administration – Education. Naval Medicine – United States. Diaries. Ephemera. Notebooks. Photographs. Processed and finding aid written by Stephen E. Novak, Feb. 2009 BOX  FO. CONTENTS SERIES I: SUBJECTS & CORRESPONDENCE 1      1  American College of Hospital Administrators: Election of NY Regent, 1970             Columbia University          2       Correspondence, 1924, 1927, 1968-1975          3       Ephemera and printed matter, 1920s          4       Newspaper clippings, 1920s              Correspondence          5       1925-1934, 1938-1939, 1945-1967          6       1969-1977              McGill University          7       Correspondence, 1929-1932          8       Ephemera and printed matter, 1929-1932          9       Newspaper clippings, 1930s        10  Military Service: General, 1942-1945 2           Military Service       1-4       General, 1942-1945           5       U.S.S. Repose: Plans of the Day, 1945           6       U.S.S. Repose: Newsletters, menus, and other printed matter, 1945 1946           7       “Paul Jonitz’ [nephew?] Essay on U.S.S. Repose,” 1945           8       Ephemera, 1942-1945           9  Retirement: Letters received, 1969-1971 3        1  Retirement: Letters sent, 1969-1970           2  Retirement Dinner, Jan. 8, 1970: invitation, correspondence           3  St. Barnabas Hospital, Minneapolis: Newspaper clippings, 1930s           4  St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, NY: Newspaper clippings & articles, 1930s           5  Supper and “Conversat” for students, March, 1970: Invitation, thank you notes           6   “Thyroxine”: Paper submitted for the Junior Prize, McGill University Medical Society,                    1929 SERIES II: DIARIES & NOTEBOOKS           7  Diary, Oct.-Dec., 1932, kept at St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, NY while an                      intern           8  Diary, 1942, kept while in military service in the U.S. Navy           9  Diary, [1945?], kept by Clay’s wife?               McGill University Medical School notes         10       Anatomy, probably 1928/29         11       Obstetrics, 1929/30         12       Therapeutics and Surgery, 1929/30-1930/31 4        1  Notebooks, Miscellaneous, c.1930s-1940s SERIES III: EPHEMERA & JUVENILIA           2  Ephemera, 1920s-1960s           3  Juvenilia, 1910s-1920s SERIES IV: PHOTOGRAPHS           4  Clay, Clement C. : portraits           5  Clay, Mary S. : portrait           6  Columbia University Hospital Administration Program Conference, May 1975,                         Dearborn, MI            7  Columbia University Master’s Program in Hospital Administration: Class&                      Residents’ photos, 1958-c.1970 (with gaps) and undated            8  Conference & parties, 1937, 1962, 1975            9  Medical Photography Dept., U.S. Naval Medical School, Bethesda, MD, March 31,                     1958         10  Miscellaneous photographs and postcards, c.1930s-c.1940s         11  Residents [St. John’s Riverside Hospital?], c.1930s         12  Retirement Dinner, Jan. 8, 1970         13  U.S. Navy Hospital Ships Repose and St. Olaf, Shanghai, China, Oct. 1945 5     1-2  World War II: photos of hospital scenes and medical treatment            3  World War II: U.S. Naval Field Medical Photographic Unit #2: group portrait, undated            4  World War II: “Blowups from 16mm – ‘Leinster’ – Anzio & Naples,” probably 1944 SERIES V: OVERSIZE/PRINTED MATERIAL/ARTIFACTS 6            Loose in carton:                 Scrapbook, c.1917-1920, 1931, 1 v.                 Retirement Dinner, Jan. 8, 1970, Photo album, 1 v.                 Album of retirement letters, 1969-1970: includes a few earlier letters from                     grateful students, 1 v.                 Student handbooks, Columbia University & McGill University, 1920s-1930s                 Stamp Album, 1 v.                 Miscellaneous printed matter 7              Loose in carton:                  Medals, military insignia, and other artifacts, including a U.S.S. Repose ashtray                  U.S. Navy caps                  Columbia University pennant and beanie, 1920s Map Case 2:5: Plaques and awards SERIES VI: OVERSIZE PHOTOGRAPHS & CERTIFICATES Oversize  Fo. Box 1                1 Certificates and diplomas                   2 Executive Committee, McGill University Medical Society, 1928/29-1931/32                   3 U.S. Navy Base Hospital #12, Netley, England: Officers, undated but from                             World  War II                   4 Photographs, Miscellaneous Loose in box:                   Columbia University diploma, 1927; certificate of emeritus status, Columbia                   University, 1975 (in portfolio)

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