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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.)

This is an insider’s history of Base Hospital, No.3, the Mount Sinai Hospital sponsored unit in World War I. The author, Cyril Barnert, MD, was a physician in the unit.

Dr. Lyle’s collection of close to 200 photographs is a unique and significant visual record of World War I. The photographs, which are in fine condition and range in size from 3” X 5” to 11” X 14” and include exterior views of hospital stations, interior views (including views of operating rooms and special treatment rooms), ambulances, ambulance transport of the wounded, field dressing stations, sanitary train terminals, troop movements, and troops on the battlefields. The photographs have been integrated with the Aufses Archives Photograph Collection, under St. Luke’s Hospital-World War I. Note: there are several images in the oversized box 2

This volume, written by a former director of the school, covers the establishment of the Roosevelt Hospital and the need for the establishment of the School of Nursing. It discusses the admittance requirements, the establishment of its curriculum, and development of the school under four of its first directors and the establishment of its Alumnae Association. It also includes chapters on the nurses serving during World War I and II and includes rosters listing those names, as well as many photographs of the nurses and students during the first fifty years.

These materials are mostly from World War II and include histories of the unit; daily reports of unit activities (informal log); photocopies of declassified military documents (from NARA, donated by unknown source); a ‘welcome home’ dinner invitation; program from a benefit event for the unit; and certificates of participation in the unit given by St. Luke’s Hospital. A list of St. Luke’s staff’s military service in various wars from the Civil War, Spanish War, World War I and II, and Korean War (later war information is compiled from information contributed by staff members themselves; lists are probably incomplete). Also included is scrapbook of photographs of the camp and personnel with identifying captions, clippings, a list of events, and a war service record (booklet) of the nurses. A World War I map of the unit operations is also included here.

This is a recording of the oral history of Bella Trachtenberg conducted by Albert S. Lyons on October 31st, 1985. Some of the significant topics represented in this oral history include: working as a stenographer; stories from life in France while working in the laboratory at Base Hospital No. 3 AEF during World War I; her experiences with and opinion of the men of the Board of Trustees and Medical Board; recalling controversies and tensions between surgeons, as well as the first and second woman externs, Isabel Beck (finished training in 1924) and Gertrude Felshin (class of 1925), and the first woman intern Rose Speigel; and George Baehr’s work with the Consultation Serivces and early animal kidney transplants, including her own role in Baehr’s kidney transplants as an anesthesiologist.

The recording begins in mid-sentence without context.

This series includes oversize photographic images gathered by the School of Nursing and the Nursing Alumnae Association. All relate to the School. There are images of buildings; the Oaks in New Rochelle; ; two classes, 1906 and 1916; the World War I victory parade down Fifth Avenue in New York; and a presentation scrapbook of images of 5 East 98th Street when it opened in 1927 as a new School of Nursing building. The people included here are: Superintendents Anna Alston, Kate Rich, Elizabeth Greener, and Grace Warman; Trustees George Blumenthal, Hugo Blumenthal, Kalman Haas, Mrs. Florian Florence, Albert A. Scholle, and Mrs. Addie Seligman, and Mrs. Charles Hendricks. There is also an image of Florence Nightingale.

This series includes oversize photographic images gathered by The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. There are images of buildings; the Adolescent Health Center Star Theater group (1994); ward scenes (1890, 1905); Social Service workers; contact sheets of the construction of the Annenberg Building (completed 1974); medical students; Rhinoplasty course participants (1963); dedication of the Coffey non-invasive cardiology area (1991) and of the Molly Berns Lab for Molecular Cardiology (1991); Mount Sinai Alumni Day sketch (1913); images from World War I and II; photos from a Women in Medicine article with Irene Shaprio, MD.

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.

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.

Items in this collection were given to The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Association or to the Mount Sinai Archives directly. This collection includes: a clutch purse given to graduates by Trustee Hugo Blumenthal; plate with blue image of Guggenheim Hall, 5 E. 98th Street (1956); alcohol lamp; an engraved silver bowl given to Mildred Sherwood, Class of 1922, from the Nursing Service at Duke University Medical Center (nd); World War I medallion from Base Hospital No. 3; white metal pan; 110th anniversary mug (1991); a glass inkwell from Nurses' Home; 2 glass medicine cups; pennant (in separate flat container); Class of 1962 25th reunion paperweight; Class of 1961 reunion gift: chunk of old Metzger Pavilion (1987); a class ring from Roberta Fenster Lewis, Class of 1965; a navy sweatshirt with School of Nursing seal from Frances Banks, Class of 1965; a class ring and bracelet from the Class of 1957, from Barbara Daniels, Class of 1957; a class ring from Sue Yaeger, Class of 1969; a metal bookmark noting the centennial of the New York Counties Registered Nurses Association (2004); a pewter tennis trophy in cotton bag (1929) from family of Doreen N. McGuire, Class of 1932 (one handle is broken); a plaque created for the 60th reunion of the Class of 1958; 3 silver spoons and 2 forks - all say Mount Sinai Hospital, 1 says Training School (from Jackson, 2019).