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Manuscripts and Archives

Dr. Kristine M. Gebbie, Elizabeth Standish Gill professor of nursing, School of Nursing. Additions to her papers, c. 1993-2006 (1cubic foot). Records relating to her time as “AIDS Czar” and later as a nationally-recognized leader in disaster preparedness. Gift of Dr. Gebbie.

Madeline Munn Goodrich. Papers, 1980-2002, (4 cubic feet) documenting Goodrich's work to reform the treatment of the mentally ill, especially those in the criminal justice system.  There is much on her involvement with the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI).  Gift of Madeline Munn Goodrich.

Dr. Rustin McIntosh. Additions to his papers, 1918-1986 (1 cubic feet), mostly relating to his service with Base Hospital 116 in WWI. Included are typescript letters to his family; notebooks; photographs; memorabilia; records relating to the Base Hospital Association including correspondence and copies of the unit's newsletter, 1920s-1970s. In addition, there are patient records and correspondence; biographical material; a diary kept while visiting European pediatric hospitals, 1931; and a notebook he kept while Director of Babies Hospital, 1932-1958, recording rounds, conversations, meetings with the Head Nurses, conversations with fellow faculty members, and meetings with the Board of Women Managers. Gift of the McIntosh family.

Dept. of Neurology. Dr. Lewis Rowland’s selected patient files while he was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1967-1973 (1 cubic feet). Gift of the department.

New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Office of Public Affairs. Photographs and other illustrative materials used in hospital publications, 1978-2003 (40 cubic feet).

Dr. John L. Pool, P&S 1934. Papers, 1940-1978 (.16 cubic feet).  Memorabilia documenting his distinguished career as a thoracic surgeon.  Gift of the Pool family.

Dr. Anneliese L. Sitarz, P&S 1954, professor emeritus of clinical pediatrics. Papers, c.1960s-2000, documenting her career as a pediatric oncologist (4 cubic feet). Gift of Dr. Sitarz.

Dr. Joe D. Wray. Papers, 1956-2005 (9.75 cubic feet). Papers of Wray, a former Mailman School of Public Health faculty member.  Includes correspondence, reports, reprints, teaching materials, notebooks, brochures and ephemera, largely relating to his career in international public health and maternal and child health in Turkey, Columbia, and Thailand.  Gift of his widow, Beth Wray.

Books

Ackerman, A. Bernard (P&S 1962). A copy of his memoir of his internship, A Year Without Peer: 1963-1964 in the Department of Dermatology of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Gift of Dr. Ackerman.

 

Dr. Ralph Schlaeger, late professor emeritus of clinical radiology.  13 volumes from his library, 1824-1910, including W. C. Borden’s The Use of the Röntgen Ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the War with Spain, 1898.  (1900); Thomas Morgan Rotch, Living Anatomy and Pathology: The Diagnosis of Diseases in Early Life by the Roentgen Method (1910); and J. P. Maygrier, Midwifery Illustrated (1843).  Gift of his estate.

 

Warburg, Otto. The Metabolism of Tumors: Investigations from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology, Berlin-Dahlem. (London, 1930), the first English translation of an important work by this Nobel Laureate. Gift of Dr. John N. Loeb, professor emeritus of medicine.

 

October, 2007


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  Exhibitions  

During the reconstruction of the Health Sciences Library, the main Archives & Special Collections exhibit space will be inaccessible to the public.  Smaller exhibits will continue to be presented in the cases on the Library's lobby level.

Commencements Past

May-June, 2008

Lobby Level, Health Sciences Library

A small, one-case exhibit of photographs and programs from past commencements may be seen on the Library's lobby level during the months of May and June.

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