The physical album consists of 75 pages of photographs taken at St. Luke's Hospital between 1914 and 1917, by Dr. Norman Titus. It appears that many of the images were taken on the roof-top patio of the Travers Pavilion, and views of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine are sometimes visible. Most of the images are of medical staff - doctors, nurses and student nurses, though some young patients are included, as are few general ward images. Some of the images are labeled with places or names, but not all.

Dr. Titus was a member of the House Staff, starting in Pathology in 1914 and moving to 6 month rotations in Ear, Nose & Throat, Surgical, and Medical services through 1917. It might be of interest to note that fellow house staff colleagues in the Pathology Department Andrew Peters, Jr. MD, Robert Emmet Sribels, MD, George N. Acker, MD, and Frank D. Scudder, MD are often the subject of his photographs.

This collection has two series. The first series is composed of files that were created as part of the research process for the writing of two books about the history of Mount Sinai: This House of Noble Deeds: Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002 (NYU Press, 2002) and Teaching Tomorrow's Medicine Today: the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1963-2003 (NYU Press, 2005), both co-authored with Barbara J. Niss. This series includes a small collection of files relating to the contracts with New York University Press and the publication of the books and the research files themselves. Material that had been obtained from the collections of The Mount Sinai Archives has been removed as it can be found in its original form in the Archives.

The second series consists of general files created or received by Dr. Aufses over his later career after he stepped down from the Chairmanship of the Department of Surgery. This includes some files from his service as the Acting Chairman of the Health Policy Department from December 1, 2007 through September 2008 after Mark Chasson, MD left Mount Sinai.

A large series of scrapbooks, certificates, and plaques was received in July 2015. The certificates were removed from their frames for better storage. These are found in Oversize Box 1. Some items were discarded.

Seven images of Charles F. Begg, the Chair of Pathology Dept. at St. Luke's Hospital in the 1960s and 1970s.