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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).

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.

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.

Three copies of the Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Alumnae Association of the St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing, with amendments between 1909 and 2001.

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.

Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the Supreme Court guaranteed constitutional protection for the use of contraceptives. Now, Ellen Chesler provides the first authoritative biography of this great emancipator, whose lifelong struggle helped women gain control over their own bodies. An idealist who mastered practical politics, Sanger seized on contraception as the key to redistributing power to women in the bedroom, the home, and the community. For fifty years, she battled formidable opponents ranging from the U.S. Government to the Catholic Church. Her crusade was both passionate and paradoxical. She was an advocate of female solidarity who often preferred the company of men; an adoring mother who abandoned her children; a socialist who became a registered Republican; a sexual adventurer who remained an incurable romantic. Her comrades-in-arms included Emma Goldman and John Reed; her lovers, Havelock Ellis and H.G. Wells. Drawing on new information from archives and interviews, Chesler illuminates Sanger's turbulent personal story as well as the history of the birth control movement. An intimate biography of a visionary rebel, this is also an epic story that extends from the radical movements of pre-World War I to the family planning initiatives of the Great Society. At a time when women's reproductive and sexual autonomy is once again under attack, Woman of Valor is indispensable reading for the generations in debt to Sanger for the freedoms they take for granted.

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 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.

Includes: awards, citations, military insignia, Red Cross insignia (wife's); 1 file of letters.

Includes G. Mahler Material

This collection includes: contemporary documents including an identity card belonging to Herbert Celler, MD, reunion programs, songs, lists of members, history of the Unit, round plaque souvenir of the 25th reunion (1943). The history of the Unit written by Cyril Barnert, MD is also included here.