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Archival description
US AA135 · Collection

The Blumenthal Cottage was established in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State by Hugo Blumenthal. It served as a place where nurses could go to rest or recover from tuberculosis. Mr. Blumenthal was a Trustee on both The Mount Sinai Hospital and The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing boards. Plans by Scopes and Feustmann, Architects.

Scopes and Feustmann
US AA151 · Collection · 1890-2014

This artificial collection of photographs was assembled by the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Archives. It contains photographs, including head shots, candid photographs, and group photographs, of individuals associated with the Mount Sinai Health System.

Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Archives
US AA014 · Collection · 1916-1943

This collection consists of nearly 200 photographs of World War I soldiers, evacuation hospitals, field hospitals and areas of France taken by the U.S. Signal Corps., and maps and documents used by Col. Lyle in the course of his command. (The photographs have been integrated into the Mount Sinai Photograph Collection.)

Lyle, Henry H. M.
US AA103 · Collection · 1850-1944

This small collection includes a letter, a hymn, and several books written by William A. Muhlenberg, a few inscribed to particular people. Several books written about him are included, the most significant by Dr. Robert Abbe, which describes Muhlenberg's childhood, and bears Abbe’s autograph, and Muhlenberg’s personal Bible. The finding aid container list also includes other books about the family and its history that are held in the archives library.

St. Luke's Hospital Center. Richard Bolling Medical Library
Ennio Gallozzi, MD papers
US AA161 · Collection · 1955-2011

This is a collection of documents and photographs donated by Dr. Gallozzi. They include letters from colleagues and patients (which are restricted to preserve patient privacy), notes from friends, certificates and diplomas, invitations to alumni events and dedications, and photographs of himself with colleagues, and lists of staff.

Gallozzi, Ennio
US AA039 · Collection · 1937-1979

This collection consists primarily of correspondence, documents, photographs and memorabilia dating from Esther Winkler Shapiro’s service as a U.S. Army nurse on the Pacific front during the Second World War, with a smaller assortment of material dating from her time as a nursing student at The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing. Memorabilia include a World War II Army Nurse Corps uniform and cap, a Japanese flag, and Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing caps. The collection include a shipboard newsletter from the U.S.S. Repose and a hospital newspaper from Thomas M. England General Hospital, locations where Shapiro served.

Shapiro, Esther Winkler
US AA052 · Collection · 1947

The collection consists primarily of original pen-and-ink sketches by Phyllis Mulford ’47 that were used in the production of the Class of 1947 Yearbook. Although they were scheduled to be disposed of after printing, Ms. White retrieved them from the yearbook office, had them mounted and framed, and displayed them for many years in her home. Subjects depicted in the sketches include various scenes of nursing activity and student recreational life; a detailed list is given below.

The collection also includes a book of laboratory exercises, the Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Manual, used by Ms. White during her time as a nursing student. It also contains a copy of Three Arches, the Class of 1947 Yearbook, with extensive inscriptions to Ms. White.

White, Janet Chamberlin
US AA165 · Collection · 2010-01

Emails and photographs from the Mount Sinai volunteer team that went to Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010-01-12 earthquake. The emails are in .txt format and are from Marianne Coughlin to the families of the Mount Sinai employees on the volunteer team. The photographs are largely of patients in surgery, but also include photographs of the volunteer team and the tent hospital.

Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
US AA200 · Collection · 1852 - 2010-05-04

This collection was brought together by the archivists at the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Archives. Photographic negatives were separated from their original collection and collocated. In some instances, photographic prints exist of the negatives elsewhere in the Archives; in these cases, the files have an alternative identifier "Negatives" which corresponds with the identifier of the folder of negatives. The process of separating out negatives was discontinued circa 2021-2023.

Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Archives
US AA040 · Collection · 1937-2008

The collection includes award ribbons,brochures; catalogs; certificates; clippings; correspondence; journal entries (labeled ‘notes’); exhibit announcements, layout plans, and invitations; lists of artwork (some include prices); photographs of artwork and of people; and a volume of poetry.

The seven and one half inches of materials focuses on Dr. Stark’s artist career and only references his medical career and his war-time service.

Stark, Richard Boies, 1915-
US AA007 · Collection · 1888-1928

This small collection, (inclusive dates: 1888-1928), is comprised primarily of eight folders of reprints of Abbe's published articles on a variety of medical case studies, and a number of reprint articles about Abbe by others (1 folder). The remaining twelve folders include: an address by Abbe to soldiers leaving for World War I from Maine; a 70th birthday dinner menu, and a bound volume of transcriptions of congratulatory letters on the same occasion; out-going letters to nephew Hubert Howson and niece Helen Louise Howson, Robert Abbe MacKenzie, a distant relative and namesake, and Carrie Bath, the St. Luke's Director of Nursing, recommending two Bar Harbor, Maine women for the program; an article on his donation of artifacts of prominent medical figures to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; several small drawings and doggerel ("comic verse composed in irregular rhythm") by Abbe; recollections of him by Robert Abbe MacKenzie; a memorial book of quotes from Abbe's writings; and a few photographs including formal portraits of Abbe, and prints of images he made of his family in Maine, taken from Lumiere autochrome plates, as well as the original autochrome plates. Note that the photographs have been removed from the collection and added to the Mount Sinai Archives Photograph Collection, and need to be requested separately for viewing.

Abbe, Robert, 1851-1928
Roosevelt Hospital records
US AA105 · Collection · 1866-2013

Please review the notes under the individual series below. For additional information on that series, go to https://libguides.mssm.edu/catalog and enter the OCLC # provided to read the catalog record for that series.

Roosevelt Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
US AA148 · Collection · 1863-2013

The documents comprising the Roosevelt Hospital School of Nursing Records Collection reflect the school’s inception, growth, and affairs for much of its 78 year existence (1896-1974). The collection is particularly rich in photographs, which include directors and other principals of the school as well as graduating classes.

The Alumnae Association Bulletin, subsequently the Roosevelt Review, remains a primary and exceptionally rich source of information, not only for the school’s affairs, but also for much of Roosevelt Hospital’s history and activities during that period.

Roosevelt Hospital (New York, N.Y.). School of Nursing
Samuel Rosen, MD films
US AA156 · Collection · 1952-1971

There are 12 films in this collection, all created by Dr. Samuel Rosen, an Otolaryngologist on the staff of The Mount Sinai Hospital. The films show stapes surgery and fenestration for otosclerotic deafness. There is another on acupuncture techniques from China. Some of the films are in color. One film is a negative; all are 16 mm. There are some duplicates.

Rosen, Samuel, 1897-
US AA098 · Collection · 1850 - 2015

The records of St. Luke’s Hospital Center (1857-1979) includes the records of the earlier years of St. Luke’s Hospital (1857-1952), prior to merging with Woman’s Hospital (1953); the addition of the word “Center” to the name in 1965 is to indicate the multiple institutions involved. The collection is stronger in the administrative records; the clinical records contain within are sparse and incomplete. Some of what is here are restricted under HIPPA laws because they contain personal information on patients.

The materials include meeting minutes and reports of the Board of Managers and Medical Board and their executive committees as well as some alumni groups; correspondence; committee, death logs; patient casebooks; photographs; videos; legal briefs, opinions, real estate documents and patents; by-laws, acts, and constitution of the hospitals; dietary and formulary lists; superintendent’s statistics logs; pastor’s records; some departmental records; patient and medical library records; event programs; house staff skit scripts; St. Johnland documents; medical and surgical reports; military records; various publications, both historical and commercial; newsletters; reprints of doctors’ articles; artifacts, both medical, military, and historical and ephemera.

St. Luke's Hospital Center (New York, N.Y.)
US AA149 · Collection · 1895 - 2016

This small collection has five series: School of Nursing records, the Alumnae Association records, Alumnae Papers, Artifacts and Photographs. The School of Nursing series is 14 folders of basic information about the School, the highlights of which are the annual announcements catalogs (folders 2-5) outlining the entrance requirements and the curriculum, and the Triennium, the class yearbooks for 1951, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1968, 1973, and 1974. The proposal by the New York Infant Asylum to provide obstetric training is also of note as it provides a detailed list of areas of instruction for 1895 (folder 9). Student transcripts from 1941-1974 are also included in this collection; please see note under that series for details.

Significant records in The Alumnae Association series are the annual reports for the Association and a nearly complete run of the Association’s Bulletin, providing news of its members and of the Hospital. (Note that a number of annual reports are published in particular Bulletin issues, which are clearly noted in the container list. Also note that an appendix listing all of the Bulletins in the collection, along with a list of all the directresses, can be found at https://archives.mssm.edu/downloads/aa149.pdf) Also of significance are the three volumes of Alumnae Rosters, the first of which contains a short history of the School. These books and the two volumes of the Alumnae Association annual reports are behind all the folders in box 2. Photographs of Alumnae are also included in the collection; however, they are filed in the larger St. Luke’s Hospital series of the Photograph Collection. A scrapbook of snap shots of student nurses around 1953-1955 is also found in the artifacts.

The Alumnae Papers consists of materials donated by the School’s graduates and may include bulletins, pamphlets, yearbooks, artifacts such as uniforms or graduate pins, invitations and other materials. This series is arranged by donation date.

Artifacts include a complete student nurse’s uniform, with its distinctive wool cape and the School's graduate pin.

St. Luke's Hospital (New York, N.Y.). School of Nursing
US AA102 · Collection · 1854-1960

This is a small collection. Of particular significance are the two patient registers, or casebooks, of the Infirmary which report on the condition of the patients cared for there by the Sisterhood of the Holy Communion. The last page of the second volume refers to the transition to the new St. Luke’s Hospital in 1858. The collection also includes several historical sketches of the church, a program from the 90th anniversary service, a short biography of Anne Ayres, the first Sister, is included as well as a portrait of her, and pictures of the church building. (Note that these have been moved to the Archives Photograph Collection.) A Founders’ Day sermon from 1927 and a charming Christmas card from a Miss Roberts and Sister Anne are also found in the collection.

St. Luke's Hospital Center. The Richard Bolling Memorial Library
US AA101 · Collection · 1854-1966 (bulk 1855-1952)

The documents comprising the records of the Woman’s Hospital in the State of New York include annual reports, committee reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, photographs, reprints and written works prepared by the medical staff, 19th century patient casebooks, the manuscript of the first gynecological text book in the U.S., notebooks recording expectant fathers’ thoughts, original gynecological illustrations for text books, and medical instruments. Although most of the material deals with the administrative aspects of the hospital, documentation of the medical staffs’ accomplishments is also provided.

Bound volumes of annual reports, which include reports from the Woman’s Hospital Association, Board of Governors, Board of Supervisors and the Medical Department, form the most complete series among these records, though the collection lacks the first 22 volumes of reports, and only starts at Volume 23, 1877-1878. The reports provide a description of the hospital’s organizational structure and its constitution and by-laws. Additionally, each offers an overview of the major events and accomplishments for that year: statistical data, such as the number of patients admitted and treated, financial information concerning the budget, and donations and their donors. Several of the reports include the text of speeches given at the annual combined meetings of the Boards and biographical sketches of hospital physicians. (Note: Earlier copies of Woman’s Hospital annual reports are found at the New York Historical Society.)

Also included in the annual reports are monthly and quarterly reports submitted to the Board of Governors by the Boards and their committees. Their dates and numbers imply that several are missing. These reports include statistical information, e.g., number of patients being treated, financial data, and descriptions of the hospital’s physical condition. Although incomplete, the medical reports provide statistical and narrative reports of the pathologist and other physicians.

Minutes of meetings constitute a significant portion of this collection. They record the proceedings of the various Boards and their respective committees. The discussions reveal the hierarchy in the Woman’s Hospital organizational structure. There are gaps in the reports, however.

Some correspondence addressed to the Board of Governors has been filed with the Board’s records. Several of the letters refer to appointments of physicians and other personnel, while the remainder are general in nature.

The casebooks span dates between 1855 and 1871 and include patient information from J. Marion Sims, MD and Thomas Addis Emmet, MD. The text includes original, hand drawn pencil sketches of some of the cases, sometimes in color. The original casebooks are fragile and have been digitally scanned for researcher use.

The records of the Woman’s Hospital in the State of New York shed light on the history of the Hospital from an organizational and medical perspective. The evolution of the hospital is highlighted by the wide time span covered by the materials. References to other hospitals and certain epidemics supply information about general health conditions in New York City during this time period.

Woman's Hospital in the State of New York