Summary

Creator: Roosevelt Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Title: Collection of Records from the Roosevelt Hospital
Dates: 1871-2013
Volume: 35 boxes; 58 volumes (278.5 inches)  

Preface

This finding aid was created by Michala Biondi in 2018.

Provenance

The documents comprising this collection of records from Roosevelt Hospital date from the Hospital’s opening in 1871 until its merger with St. Luke’s Hospital Center in 1979. It is unknown when these materials came into the possession of Bolling Memorial Library at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, but it is believed that over the course of time, historical items found in Hospital offices were deposited in the Library for safe-keeping.  Roosevelt Hospital records following the 1979 merger are under the record series “St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center.”  All of the materials were transferred to the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Archives in 2016, after the 2013 merger of the Continuum Health Partners, Inc. (St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Beth Israel Medical Center and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary) and The Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Historical Note

The Roosevelt Hospital was established in 1864 by the terms of the will of James H. Roosevelt (1800-1863), who wished to "establish ... a hospital for the reception and relief of sick and diseased persons and for its permanent endowments." The Hospital opened in 1871 on West 59th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues. It grew over time, adding departments, additional buildings, and a nursing school. At its opening, Roosevelt Hospital was numbered among the most modern hospitals in the country.

Under the terms of James Henry Roosevelt’s will the hospital was to be a voluntary hospital that cared for individuals regardless of their ability to pay. When he died in 1863, his estate was valued at between $900,000 and $1.25 million for the purchase of land and to finance construction of the buildings. Through the sale of land owned by Roosevelt in Westchester County, and keen financial planning, the estate trustees increased it to over a million and a quarter dollars for the purchase of land and to finance construction of the buildings. In 1866 they purchased a square block of land in what was then the northern outskirts of the city, from West 58th to 59th Streets between Ninth and Tenth Avenues. The cornerstone of the Hospital was laid on October 29, 1869, and the building was opened on November 2, 1871.

The Hospital complex included: a four-story main building, with a service-annex behind it, a five-story medical ward, and single-story men’s surgical ward, all facing West 59th Street from the center to the east end of the plot. A power plant, a mortuary building, pathology lab, and museum stood on the southwest side, facing West 58th Street.

Buildings were added over time to meet the demands for growth and improved facilities. Additions included the Private-Patient Pavilion (1885), the William J. Syms Operating Theatre (1892), the Accident Building and Ward for Sick Children (1899), a Nurses’ Residence (1911), a taller Ward building (1923), the James I. Russell Memorial Surgical Building (1949), the Tower Memorial Building (1953), the School of Nursing (1953), the Garrard Winston Memorial Building (1964), The Arthur J. Antenucci Institute of Medical Research (1986) and a new main hospital facility facing Tenth Avenue (1992).

In 1894 the Board of Trustees decided to establish a proper nurse training program, which opened in 1896. The program was very successful, graduating 2,384 professional nurses, but closed in 1974, bowing to changes in professional education demands and financial strains.

Notable physicians on staff included: Drs. William Halsted, Alonzo Clark, John T. Metcalf, T. Gaillard Thomas, William H. Draper, Francis Delafield, Robert Abbe, Charles McBurney, Evan M. Evans, James I. Russel, and Arthur J. Antenucci.

In 1979 Roosevelt Hospital and the St. Luke's Hospital Center merged forming St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (SLR). Departments and responsibilities were shifted between the two units so that one or the other hospital was in charge of a particular service over both units. In 1997 St. Luke's-Roosevelt joined with Beth Israel Hospital under the Continuum Health Partners banner, and in 2013 the Continuum group joined with The Mount Sinai Hospital and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to form the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS). St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals were re-named Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West.

Arrangement

As mentioned above, materials were not collected in a systematic fashion, but were brought to the medical librarian when found on the Hospital premises, or donated by former students or staff or their families. Therefore the order of the series and the arrangement within each series was imposed by the archivist.

Scope and Content

Please review the notes under the individual series below.  For additional information on a particular series, visit the Levy Library Catalog and enter the OCLC # provided to read the catalog record for that series.

Conditions Governing Access

Parts of this collection may be closed to researchers if they contain patient health information or personal information; please contact the Archives for details.

Related Materials

The J. William Littler Collection, circa 1945-2004 (bulk 1952-1984), is held at the New York Academy of Medicine Library.

Subjects

• Annual Reports
• Archives
• Artifacts
• Financial Ledgers
• Hospital Administration
• Hospitals, Military
• Hospitals, Teaching
• Medical Records
• Minutes
• Newsletters
• Pamphlets
• Photographs
• Reports
• Roosevelt Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
• Roosevelt Hospital (New York, N.Y.) School of Nursing
• Schools, Nursing
• Students, Nursing
• United States. Army. Base Hospital, 15^th
• United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 9^th
• World War, 1914-1918 – France

Series List

NOTE: The OCLC # is a permanent identification number in the WorldCat catalog; by copying and inserting it into the search box in the Library catalog webpage, it will go to the on-line catalog entry for that title and may provide additional details on the series below.

1) Annual Reports, 1871-1978 (OCLC # 967966280)

Includes bound multiple volumes and individually bound volumes. Two sets, both incomplete runs: 1871-1877; 1883-1899; 1902; 1904; 1906-1938; 1940-1962; 1964-1967; 1978.

2) Meeting Minutes

Board of Trustees of the Roosevelt Hospital, 1873-1979. (OCLC # 974820578)

This series includes bound and unbound minutes from the Board of Trustees of Roosevelt Hospital. The minutes may include Regular, Special, and Annual meetings of the Board of Trustees and minutes of the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees. Two sets, the second set is incomplete.

Executive Committee of the Roosevelt Hospital Board of Trustees, 1947-1977. (OCLC # 976436405)

This series includes bound and unbound minutes from the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Roosevelt Hospital, incomplete set.

Medical Board of Roosevelt Hospital, 1898-1978 (OCLC # 979997204)

This series includes bound and unbound minutes from the Medical Board of Roosevelt Hospital. The minutes may include Regular, Special, Executive Committee, and Annual meetings of the Medical Board, and various sub-committees reporting to the Board, including the Junior Medical Board, and the Medical Education Committee. Materials include minutes, correspondence to the Board, divisional reports, nominations or resignations of staff, reports of committees, resolutions of the Board, budgets and financial reports, miscellaneous reports. The second half of 1961 and first half of 1962 are missing, as is 1972.

3) World War II Related Materials

Roosevelt Hospital Service Log, circa 1942-1945; 1947 (OCLC # 997883058)

Lists of where RH personnel were stationed, info on particular people, clippings, letters to the Roosevelt Mail newsletter re: subscriptions, descriptions of experiences in war and general updates on Evac Hospital activities and individual staff activities; typescripts of correspondence from soldiers; sometimes includes photos, stationary, postcards.

Roosevelt Mail, 1945 July to 1946 Sept: Newsletter of the 9^th Evac Hospital. (OCLC # 997698182)

This publication includes news of the activities of the 9th Evacuation Hospital unit during World War II, including transcripts of radio talks of representatives of the unit taking part in a two-way broadcast and notes and updates from specific soldiers. This unit was comprised of many staff members from Roosevelt Hospital.

4) Roosevelt Hospital School of Nursing Records, 1863-2013 (OCLC # 974823591)

The records of the Roosevelt Hospital School of Nursing are arranged into five series: I: Administrative Records, 1863-1973; II: Student-related Records, 1937-1972; III: Alumnae-related Records, 1897-1999: subseries a: Alumnae Association Records, 1897-1999, subseries b: Alumnae Personal Papers, 1898-1971; IV: Photographs, 1897-1974; V: Artifacts, circa 1906-2013. Additional details are contained in its own finding aid.

5) Roosevelt Hospital Bound Volumes

NOTE: The casebooks and financial ledgers are stored off-site unless otherwise noted; please consult the archivist for details and allow for a minimum of 48 hours for retrieval from off-site storage.

Casebooks (OCLC # 1014025670)

Financial Ledgers (OCLC # 1014183381)

• Accounting Income Ledger, 1864-1935
• Accounting Ledger, 1901-1905
• Accounting ledger of mortgages, stocks, etc., 1905-1909** (accounts believed to originate with founder James H. Roosevelt)
• Estate of James H. Roosevelt in a/c with Julia M. Boardman, Executrix, 1863 Dec to 1865 Jan., with loose paperwork titled, “Estate of James H. Roosevelt as Inventoried November 30, 1863.”
• Financial Ledger, 1924-1937

Other

• Alphabetical List of Officers and Employees of Roosevelt Hospital, 1890-1897* (OCLC # 1000154440)
• Registry Book for the Visiting Committee of the Roosevelt Hospital Board of Trustees, 1873-1937. (OCLC # 978251779)
• House Staff Leave of Absence Log, 1901 Feb -1938 Dec. (OCLC # 978354672)

* Severe red rot on covers

**Severe red rot on covers and loose spine

6) Publications

• Historical Pamphlets re: Roosevelt Hospital. 1871-1978 (OCLC # 999823342)
• Reports of the Professional Staff, Roosevelt Hospital, 1966-1972 (1971 missing) (OCLC # 999608706)
• Roosevelt Report Alumni Newsletter, Vol. II, 1954 October – 1977 Fall/Winter (OCLC # 999729238)
• Pamphlets titled, “You can have confidence in your Hospital,” circa 1933

7) Artifacts

The collection includes several artifacts from the Hospital and the School of Nursing, several of which may be on display around the Hospital at any time. The Archives maintains a record of the location of each item.

• American Red Cross service pin, #145805
• British flag pin cushion, made by Miss Mary A. Samuel, the second director of the School of Nursing (1898-1910), but most significantly the one to mold the curriculum, establish the student uniform and design the graduation pin. Gift, Christmas 1940.
• Caught being Great lapel pins (2), circa 2000
• Character sketches (photocopies) of Doctors at Roosevelt Hospital, circa 1970s, drawn by unidentified house staff member. Donated by Ernest DeLia, MD, Administrator Practice Professional Services and on staff since 1979.
• Doll, 11” tall, dressed in the uniform of the Roosevelt Hospital School of Nursing, circa 1950s
• Embossing plates for Roosevelt Hospital School of Nursing yearbook seal, undated
• Life Magazine, issued November 29, 1954, featuring an Alfred Eisenstaedt photo captioned, “Future nurses at Roosevelt Hospital’s nursing school peer over the balconies.” Page 139. Donated by Mark Delaney IT, August 2017.Microscope in wooden box, undated
• Nurse’s cap, donated by Mary E. Davies with a note stating: ‘This cap was sent to me by Ruby Murray’s niece – Ruby Clelland – after Miss Murray died on May 1892 = age 93 yrs. The cap was worn by Ruby Murray who graduated [Roosevelt Hospital School of Nursing] May 5, 1915. She served in World War I and was highly honored for her services at the signing of the Armistice in Paris – note that the cap was stitched by hand.’ The Roosevelt Cap design is based on a Dutch cap model.
• Panama Canal service pin (1906-08), image of Theodore Roosevelt on the face, includes a note from Peter Walsh, Assistant to the President, Roosevelt Hospital Division, that reads, “The fine engraving around what must be Teddy Roosevelt’s likeness, reads: For two years continuous service on the Panama Canal. #1843. The recipient, presumably, I. [Isabelle] Freeland. I presume she was a Rooseveltian. RH SON 1899”
• Paperweights bearing Roosevelt Hospital School of Nursing seal (4 items): lucite triangles with the School of Nursing seal and the dates, 1896-1974, across a ribbon below the seal.
• Plate, decorative, featuring the seal of the Roosevelt Hospital School of Nursing, backed by blue/white striped uniform material. Made by Pat (Quinn) West, Class of 1944; has a gold painted wooden stand.
• Plaque commemorating the laying of the cornerstone of the original Hospital (1869), which originally was displayed in the first Administration building, on West 59th St.
• Roosevelt Hospital School of Nursing student nurse uniform: 1 blue with white stripes blouse and skirt; 2 aprons; 2 collars; 3 sets cuffs; 1buttons; 2 bibs (uniform of May Katherine Strangfeld, Class of 1940; donated by the family) (OCLC # 1014027282)
• Serving plates (2), 7" round plates used in the Private Pavilion, made in Germany, late 19th c.
• Trowel used to lay the cornerstone of the “new building” (1941)
• Wash basin and pitcher, and chamber pot with lid: white with blue floral design made by B.W.M. & Co., Stoke-upon-Trent, England, late 19th c., used in Private Patients Pavilion.

8) Photographs and Slides

Please note that the photograph collection is not static and new photographs continue to be added to it.  Please contact the Archives for specific inquiries.

A. Trustees, Staff, Employees, and Guests of Significance

These images have been integrated into the archives’ photograph collection and can be accessed by request. Note that dates listed refer to active serve dates and initials relate to individual hospitals in the system (SL and RH indicate St. Luke’s Hospital Center and Roosevelt Hospital prior to their 1979 merger; SLR indicates association after the merger; WH is Woman’s Hospital and CHP is Continuum Health Partners, the parent company over the merger of SL, RH, and Beth Israel Hospital, in 1997).

• Abbe, Robert, MD, Surgery (SL)
• Ablow, Judith (Mrs. Ronald), Associate Trustee (SLR)
• Ablow, Ronald, MD, Chief of Radiology (SL); President (SLR)
• Agar, Michael, MD
• Amendola, Frederick, MD, Surgery (see also: Thompson, James)
• Ames, Richard, MD, Nephrology (RH)
• Amil, Luis A., MD (SL)
• Anastasiades, Anastasios, MD, Assoc. Director, Pediatrics
• Antenucci, Arthur, MD, Medicine (RH); also with Drs. Patterson & Taylor
• Apsey, Russell, MD, Administrative Medical Officer (SL), 1952-1965
• Ashe, Arthur (see also: Hutchinson, John, MD)
• Atkinson, Frederick G., 1964 –1979
• Ayres, Anne (photo of Daniel Huntington painting) (SL)
• Babcock, F. Huntington: Board of Trustees (SL; WH), 19??-1973
• Baer, Jean, MD, (with husband), Radiology (SL)
• Baker, J. Stewart: President, Board of Trustees (SL), 1953-1959
• Baker, Stephen: President, Board of Managers (SL), 1921-1938
• Barrett, C. Redington, MD, Pulmonary Medicine (SL)
• Bartow, Francis D.: Board of Trustees (RH), 1933-1942
• Bastedo, Walter A., MD, Medicine (SL)
• Beame, Abraham D., New York City Mayor (at SL fund event)
• Beekman, Robert S., MD, Internal Medicine (SL)
• Begg, Charles F., MD, Director of Pathology (SL)
• Beinecke, William Sperry, 1966 –
• Beisler, Simon A., MD, Urology (SL or RH??)
• Bellamy, St. Claire, Watch Engineer (WH)
• Benington, George, 1957-1964
• Bishop, F. Warner, MD, Medicine (SL)
• Bissell, Douglas, MD, Surgery (SL)
• Blancato, Louis, MD, Director, Anesthesiology (SL)
• Bokkenheuser, Victor D., MD, Biochemistry/Biophysics (SL)
• Bolling, Richard Walker, MD, Surgery (SL)
• Bosworth, David M., MD, Director of Orthopedics 1951-1959 (SL)
• Bowers, Wesley C., MD, Otologist (SL)
• Bozeman, Nathan, MD, Surgery (SL)
• Braun, Carl, MD, Chief, Neurology Division (SL); Chief Medical Officer (SLR)
• Braun, Norma, MD, Pulmonology (SL) (see also: Braun, Carl)
• Brophy, Thomas D’Arcy, 1953 – 1967
• Brown, LeRoy, MD, Surgery (SL)
• Brown, Madison, Exec Vice President (RH)
• Brown, Percy, MD, Radiology (SL)
• Brunie, Henry C., 1944 – 1970s
• Bull, William J., MD, Surgery (RH); SL
• Bullock, Hugh, 1953 – 1979 (RH)
• Burns, Hendry S. M., 1951 – 1960 (RH)
• Bush, Mrs. Donald, 1947 – 1978 (RH)
• Byrne, Isabelle, Director, School of Nursing (RH)
• Campbell, Robert, MD (see Hashim, Sami)
• Cane, Myles, Friend and Donor (SLR)
• Carhart, H. Whitfield, 1958–1977 (RH)
• Caruso, Ugo F., Administration (RH)
• Case, Robert, MD, Cardiology (SL)
• Castellano, Frank, MD
• Cave, Henry Wisdom, MD, Surgery (RH) 1953 – 1964
• Cherrick, Gilbert, MD, Gastroenterology (SL)
• Childs, Edward Patterson, MD, Chief, Cardiology (SL)
• Chindlund, Edwin R., 1955 – 1960 (RH)
• Choolfian, Annette, VP & COO (SLR), see: Koch, Edward
• Chynn, Kew York, MD, Neurology (SLR)
• Clark, Graham, MD, Director, Ophthalmology (SL)
• Clark, William S., MD Rheumatology (SL)
• Cleveland, J. Luther, 1955 – 1979 (RH)
• Clemens, Joe R., MD (RH)
• Coffin, Jarvis, MD, Director, Medicine (SL)
• Cohen, Herbert, MD, Pediatrics/Allergy
• Coldwell, Everett S., 1956 – 1979 (RH)
• Collins, Richard, MD, Cardiology (SL)
• Comfort, Harold Wesley, 1961 – 1978 (RH)
• Cooke, Robert A., MD, Medicine/Allergy (RH)
• Cooper, Louis Z., MD, Director of Pediatrics (SL)
• Copeland, Norval, Assoc. Administrator (RH)
• Cortell, Stanley, MD, Chief of Nephrology (SL); Interim Director, Medicine (SL)
• Cotton, John M., MD, Director, Psychiatry (SL)
• Creevy, George M., MD, Surgery (RH)
• Crocker, Stuart M., 1933 – 1956 (Rh)
• Cromwell, Jarvis: President, Board of Trustees (SL), 1959 -1961
• Cromwell, Lincoln: President, Board of Managers (SL), 1938-1949
• Cromwell, Mrs. Lincoln
• Cushman, Paul, Jr., MD, Methadone Treatment (SL)
• Dallas, Donald, MD, Director, Employee Health Service (SL)
• Dank, Leonard, Medical Illustrator (SL)
• Darrach, William, MD, Surgery (RH)
• Davidson, Charles, President (SL) (Executive Director, 1962-1974)
• Davies, Joshua W., MD, Surgeon (SL)
• Deakins, Susan, MD, Alcoholism
• DeChristoford, Richard, Personnel Director (SL)
• Delafield, Francis, MD, Pathology (RH)
• Delafield, Lewis Livingston, 1921
• Delavan, David R., MD, Laryngologist (SL)
• Dermksian, George, MD, Cardiology (SL)
• Dewey, Thomas E., 1941 – 1971 (RH)
• Dewey, Thomas, Governor, New York (cornerstone laying, Winston Pavilion)
• Dominick, Gayer G., 1933 – 1961 (RH)
• Donegan, Bishop Horace W.B., Notre Dame Cathedral (SL) ex-officio
• Donovan, Edward J., MD, Surgery (SL)
• Dorman, Franklin A., MD, OB/GYN (WH)
• Dorman, Gerald D., House officer (SL); AMA president 1969
• Downes, William A., MD, Surgery (SL)
• Draper, MD, Director, Urology (SL)
• Dunn, Albert A., MD, Director, Radiology (SL)
• Earle, Walter K., 1949 – (RH)
• Estes, Thomas W. 1954 – 1962 (RH)
• Evans, Evan M., MD, Medicine (RH)
• Eyssell, Gustav S., 1957 – 1979 (RH)
• Farnum, Waldo B., MD, Medicine (SL)
• Farr, C. Sims, 1975 – 1990 (SLR)
• Fazzari, Joseph, MD, Director, Physical Medicine (SL)
• Feigelson, Eugene B., MD, Director, Psychiatry (SL)
• Fielding, William, MD, Director, Orthopedic Surgery (SL)
• Finby, Nathaniel, MD, Director, Radiology (SL)
• Fitzpatrick, Hugh, MD, Director, Surgery (SL)
• Flagler, Harry Harkness, 1912 – 1952 (RH)
• Flint, Austin, MD, Surgery (RH)
• Frankel, Martin, MD, Medicine (SL) (with Miles Schwartz)
• Fraser, Alexander, 1949 – 1951 (RH)
• Fraser, Robert, MD, Surgery; Medical Board president, 1969-1970 (SL)
• Freeland, Shephard, MD
• Friedman, Dentistry/Oral Surgery (SLR)
• Gallazzi, Ennio, MD, Interim Director, Anesthesiology (SL)
• Gambuti, Gary (SLR) President, with Lydgate, William A. (SLR) Trustee
• Garrett, Rudolf, MD, Interim Director, Pathology (RH)
• Gaston, Lloyd H., MD, Director (SL), 1948-1962
• Gerry, Edward Harriman, 1965 – 1982 (RH)
• Goffe, J. Riddle, MD, Surgery (SL)
• Goodfriend, Susan, Coordinator, Institute Public Affairs Health Education (RH)
• Green, Nathan W., MD, Surgeon (SL)
• Greenberg, Henry, MD, Director, Coronary Care Unit (SLR)
• Grieco, Michael, MD, Infectious Diseases; Director, Medicine (SL)
• Grimshaw, Charles B., Superintendent (RH) (1907-1921)
• Grove, R. Clark, MD, Otolaryngology
• Guthrie, Henry B.: President, Board of Trustees (SL), 1966-1970
• Halsted, William Stewart, MD, Surgery (SL) (RH)
• Hanks, Horace T., MD, Surgery (WH)
• Harrington, F. Dennis, Administration (Assistant Director) (SL)
• Hashim, George, PhD, Research Neuroscientist (SL), (with Byron Wasman, William Reynolds)
• Healy, Rev. Timothy S., Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, CUNY; Pres., New York Public Library
• Heimlich, Donald L., MD, Director, Emergency Services (SLR)
• Helmer, Mr. (SL News, March 1965)
• Herring, Albert C., MD, Medicine (SL)
• Hirschfeld, Elie, Trustee 1988 - 1990 (SLR)
• Holbrook, David D., Vice Chair, CHP
• Holt, Peter, MD, Chief, Gastroenterology (SL)
• Hoover, William H., 1950 – 1952 (RH)
• Humbert, Harry O., Controller (RH)
• Huntington, Lawrence S.: Chairman, Board of Trustees (SL), 1974-1980
• Hutchinson, John, MD, Cardiac Surgery (SL) (see also: Arthur Ashe)
• Iaquinta, Frank E., MD, Dir, Ambulatory Care (RH)
• Irvine, Jed H., MD (Rheumatology (SL)
• Jackson, William H. Baxter, Trustee (RH), 1941 - 1949
• Jackson, N. Baxter, 1940 – 1973 (RH)
• Johnson, Horton, MD, Director, Pathology (SL)
• Johnson, Woolsey, MD, Medicine (RH)
• Jones, Ira, MD, Ophthalmology (SL) (SL News, Dec. 1963)
• Jones, Oswald R., MD, Pathology, Pulmonary Medicine, Medical Bd. Pres (SL), 1954-1956
• Joyner, Edmund N., MD, Director, Pediatrics (RH)
• Jurgenson, Randolph (SL)
• Kanick, Virginia, MD, Radiology (SL)
• Keating, John H., Jr., MD, Medicine (SL)
• Keating, John Sr., MD, Director, Medicine (SL)
• Keill, Stewart, MD, Psychiatry (SL)
• Kemp, Harvey, MD, Chief of Cardiology (SL)
• Kennedy, Senator, Edward M. (Attending a Health Care Hearing @RH)
• Kiss, Jeanne Marie, PhD, COO (SLR)
• Knapp, Arnold, MD, Surgical staff (RH)
• Knox, Leila C., MD, Pathology (SL)
• Knox, W. Graham, MD, Surgery (SL)
• Koch, Edward T., New York City Mayor
• Kochman, Richard, MD, Ophthalmology (SL)
• La Guardia, Fiorella H., Mayor, New York City (at the opening of the OR @RH)
• Lambert, Samuel, MD, Medicine (SL); Board of Trustees (RH)
• Lange, Michael, MD, Chief, Infectious Diseases (SL)
• Lavengood, Russell A., MD, Director, Urology (SL)
• Leonard, Mr. F., Social Work (SL)
• Lerman, Lawrence, MD, Primary Care (RH)
• Lewis, John S., MD, Ear, Nose and Throat (RH; SLR)
• Liebert, Peter S., MD, Pediatric Surgery
• Liegner, Leonard, MD, Dir. Radiation Oncology (SL)
• Lincoln, Isabel, 1955 – 1979 (RH)
• Lintel, Harold A., MD
• Littler, J. William, MD, Founder, Director, Hand Surgery Division (SLR)
• Lowe, Franklin C., MD, Urology (SL)
• Luce, Henry R., 1937 – 1966 (RH)
• Lyle, Henry H.M., MD, Surgery (SL)
• Lyndgate, William A., 1972 – 1992 (RH)
• Lynn, Stephan G., MD, Director, Emergency Medicine (SLR)
• MacFee, William F., MD, Surgery (SL)
• Maloney, John J., Associate VP/Controller (RH)
• Maniatis, Alice, MD, Director, Blood Bank (SL)
• Markoe, Thomas Masters, MD, Surgery (RH)
• Martin, Walton, MD, Surgery (SL)
• Matamoros, Joseph, Director, Security (SL)
• Matthews, Frank S., MD, Medical Board President (SL), 1928-1930
• McBurney, Charles, MD, Surgery (RH), 1888-1906; (SL), 1888-1919
• McCall, H. Carl, Trustee (SLR)
• McCord, Colin, MD, Surgery (1st cardiac surgeon at SL)
• McDonald, David, MD, Director, Psychiatry (SL)
• McGillicuddy, John F., 1973 – 1984 (SLR)
• McGowan, Andrew, Staff photographer (SL)
• McLane, James Wood, MD: (RH), Trustee, 1889-1903, President, 1905-1913
• McLane, W. Lawrence, 1933 – 1964 (RH)
• Merman, Ethel; also with Helen Roosevelt; with Peter Walsh
• Metcalf, George R.
• Michalis, Clarence: Board of Trustees (SL; SLR), 1948 – 1990
• Miller, George MacCulloch, President (SL) 1890 - 1917
• Miller, Robert, MD, Surgery (SL)
• Milliken, Garrish H., 1958 – 1963 (RH)
• Milliken, Seth M., 1947 – 1957 (RH)
• Mixsell, Harold, MD, Pediatrics (SL; WH)
• Mondale, Senator, Walter (at a Child Abuse hearing @RH)
• Monell, Edmund C., 1957 – 1978 (RH)
• Moore, Roy W., 1964 – 1979 (RH)
• Mumford, Robert S., MD, Psychiatry (SL)
• Munger, Claude, W., MD, Director (SL)
• Munz, Adam, Psychologist (SL)
• Nay, Howard, MD, Surgery (SL)
• Nelson, William, MD, Director, Urology (RH)
• Neuwirth, Robert, MD, OB-GYN (SL; SLR)
• Newton, James, MD, Director, Ophthalmology (SL)
• Noeggerath, Emil, MD, Gynecology
• Norrie, Van Horne, MD, Medicine (SL)
• Norton, William S., MD (SL) (see Zintel, Harold)
• Norton, William S., MD, Medicine (SL)
• Novack, Stanley (SL)
• Oathout, Floyd; Ross, Gary; Administration (SL)
• Olson, Virginia E., Assist. Vice President (RH)
• Packard, Charles H., MD, Medicine (SL)
• Panella, Dr. Nancy M., Director, Bolling Library (SL), 1970-2010; Librarian to the Archives 210-2016 (SLR)
• Pardee, Irving H., MD, Neurology (SL)
• Parker, Helen G., Nursing director (RH)
• Parker, Willard, MD, Surgery (RH), 1871-1884; (SL), 1859-1883
• Parsons, Herbert A., MD, Neurosurgery (SL; see also Zintel, Harold)
• Parsons, Katherine de B., 1961 – 1993 (RH)
• Pascarelli, Emil F., MD, Director Ambulatory Care (SLR)
• Patterson, Howard, MD, Orthopedic Surgery (RH; see also Thompson, James, Antenucci, Arthur)
• Peck, Charles H., MD, Surgery (RH, oversize)
• Peterkin, DeWitt, Jr., 1972 – 1990
• Phillips, Gerald B., MD, Cardiology (SLR)
• Pierson, Richard N., MD, Nuclear Medicine (SL)
• Piniella, Louis V. (Major League Baseball) at Child Life event (SL), 1983
• Pi-Sunyer, F. Xavier, MD, Chief, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition (SL); Dir., New York Obesity Research Center
• Plimpton, Francis T.P., 1960 – 1979
• Potter, Jr., Edwin A. 1937-1940 (RH)
• Preminger, Hope (Mrs. Otto), Associate Trustee (SLR)
• Rader, Dorothy, Director, Volunteer Services (SL)
• Rappleye, Willard C., 1931 – 1972
• Rice, Chaplain Otis, Director, Religious Services (SL), 1938-1957
• Roberts, George, 1933 – 1968 (RH)
• Rockefeller, Nelson
• Romas, Serene, Associate Trustee (SLR)
• Roosevelt, George Emlen, 1916 – 1963 (RH)
• Roosevelt, Helen with Merman, Ethel
• Roosevelt, James Henry, Founder (RH)
• Roosevelt, John E., 1972 – 1985
• Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. (Helen), John E., and sons
• Roosevelt, Mrs. John E., 1986 – 1990 (RH)
• Rosenberger, John, MD
• Ross, Gary; Oathout, Floyd, Administration (SL)
• Rothschild, Walter N. (Bill): Chairman, Board of Trustees (SLR), 1981-1987
• Rovensky, John E., 1960 –1970 (RH)
• Royster, Thomas S., MD, Surgery (RH)
• Russell, James, MD, Surgery (RH)
• Ryan, Steve, MD, Pathology (SL)
• Santy, Albert C., MD, Medicine (RH)
• Sarnoff, Joan and Arthur: Trustees, (RH)
• Schick, Robert, MD, Neurosurgery (SL)
• Schwartz, Miles J., MD, Cardiology (SL); Director, Fellowship Program
• Schwartz, Tony (On Center, April 1983) (SLR)
• Scrymser, Mr. & Mrs. James A., donors of the Scrymser Pavilion (SL)
• Shahrivar, Farrokh, MD, Neonatology
• Sherman, William B., MD, Medicine/Allergy (RH)
• Shoh, Edward, DDS (SL) (SL News, May 1966)
• Snyder, Perrin, MD, Urology
• Solley, Frederick W., MD, Surgery (SL)
• Spalding, George, MD, Medicine, Surgery (SL)
• Stark, Richard B., MD, Founder, Director, Division of Plastic Surgery (SL)
• Stillman, Alfred, MD, Surgery (SL)
• Stout, Andrew Vanick: President, Board of Trustees (SL), 1963-1966
• Stout, Arthur P., MD, Surgery (RH)
• Strong, Lawrence W., MD, Pathology
• Strouzer, Cyril H., Dir., Construction & Physical Planning (RH)
• Stuyvesant, Augustus Van Horne, Sr.
• Sunderland, Edwin S.S.: Pres., Board of Managers (SL), 1949-1952
• Sunderland, Rev. L. Ernest, DD; (SL Sunderland Auditorium named in his honor)
• Suttle, Mrs. Harold
• Sweetser, Carlton, Chaplain and Director, Religious Services (SL)
• Tator, Robert B., MD, Medicine
• Taylor, Gurney T., MD, Medicine (RH: see also Antenucci, Arthur)
• Taylor, Henry C., 1938 – 1957 (RH)
• Taylor, Howard, MD, Chief, OB/GYN (RH)
• Taylor, John A., MD, Director, Urology (SL); Medical Board President 1958-1960
• Taylor, Joseph, Director, Mailroom (SL)
• Taylor, Myron C.: Trustee 1929-1953 (SL)
• Terenzio, Peter B., Exec VP (RH)
• Thompson, Frederick, MD, Director, Orthopedics (SL)
• Thompson, James, MD, Surgery (RH) (with Drs. Patterson & Amendola)
• Torino, Gerald, MD, Director, Medicine (SL)
• Tovell, Howard M.M., MD, OB/GYN (SL)
• Trent, William J. Jr.: President, Board of Trustees (SL), 1970-1974
• Trowbridge, Cornelius P., DD, Director, Religious Services (SL)
• Turino, Gerald M., MD Rheumatology (SLR; see also: Kiss, Jeanne Marie)
• VanItallie, Theodore, MD, Director, Medicine; Founder/Director, the Obesity Research Center (SL)
• Von Micsky, Lajos, MD, Ob-Gyn (SL); Chief, Ultrasonography (SL)
• Voorhees, Enders M., 1954 – 1957
• Walker, George G., 1957 – 1978
• Walsh, Peter, Assistant to the President (SLR) (see Merman, Ethel)
• Walton, Martin, MD, Surgery (SL)
• Walworth, Rev. James C. (SL)
• Watson, Thomas J., 1933 – 1956 (RH)
• Way, Frederick, Director, Laundry (SL)
• Weir, Robert Fulton, MD, Surgery (RH)
• West, John P., MD, Interim Director, Surgery (SL)
• Wethers, Doris, MD, Director, Pediatrics (SL)
• Whitfield, Stanley, MD, Director, Otolaryngology (SL)
• Whitney, John Hay, 1949 – 1954
• Wichern, Walter, MD, Director, Surgery (SL)
• Williams, Ralph, Administration (SL)
• Winick, Myron, MD
• Winston, Garrard B., 1939 - 1955
• Wood, Paul M., MD, Anesthesiology
• Wright, Myron, MD, Director, Blood Bank; Chief, Intensive Care (SL)
• Young, Alexander, MD, Director, Dermatology (SL)
• Yu, Shyh-Jong, MD, Director, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation (SL)
• Zickel, Robert S., MD, Director, Orthopedic Surgery (SL)
• Zintel, Harold A., MD, Surgery (SL)

B. Subjects

• 90th Anniversary, 1961
• Ambulances – Horse-drawn
• Ambulances – Motorized, circa 1940-1970
• Ball of the Roses, 1963 – 1968
• Buildings - Brodsky Building (425 W. 59th St)
• Buildings - Emergency Building – Demolition, Construction, Opening
• Buildings - Libraries
• Buildings - Main Hospital – Exteriors
• Buildings - Main Hospital – Interiors
• Buildings - Main Hospital – under Construction, 1990 Sept-Dec
• Buildings - McLane Operating Room, 1941
• Buildings - Nurses’ (Student) Dormitory
• Buildings - Original Hospital – Interiors
• Buildings - Private Patients Pavilion - Opening, 1942
• Buildings - Smithers’ Alcoholism Center and Rehabilitation Unit (56 E. 93rd St.) - Opening (Sept 12, 1973)
• Buildings - Street Views - Ninth Avenue
• Buildings - Street Views - West 58th Street
• Buildings - Street Views - West 59th Street
• Buildings - Syms (William J) Operating Theatre
• Buildings - Tower Memorial Clinic, 1953
• Buildings - Winston (Garrard) Memorial Building – Cornerstone-Laying Ceremony, Oct. 25, 1961
• Buildings - Winston (Garrard) Memorial Building – Exteriors
• Buildings - Winston (Garrard) Memorial Building – under Construction, 1962
• Celebrities
• Hand Surgery Center
• House Staff, 1892
• Ivy Garden Dedication (Ethel Merman)
• Nurses - Alumnae Association, School of Nursing
• Pediatrics, circa 1915-1970s
• Social Service Committee
• World War I – Base Hospital 15
• World War II – 9th Evac Hospital – Nurses

Processed and described by Michala Biondi, February 22, 2018; revised August 2018; June 14, 2019; October 2019; February 2020