Papers, 1858-1967.

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Papers, 1858-1967.

Files containing archival material on Long Island College Hospital, Long Island Medical College, and Downstate Medical Center, probably collected by Dr. Curran. Includes Dr. Curran's files as head of 79th General Hospital (military), 1940-1945; Brooklyn area hospital survey, 1946-1951; lectures on medical history, ca.1942-ca.1956; Arnold Eggerth's correspondence and notes concerning history of Hoagland Laboratory, 1950-1957; Dean Adam Miller's correspondence files, 1924-1935; correspondence of Frank L. Babbott, president of Long Island College of Medicine, 1924-1955, including a letter from Nicholas Murray Butler, 1930; collections box records of Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association, 1902; school examination questions, ca.1892-1941; reports, minutes, and memoranda of Long Island College Hospital Board of Regents, 1916-1933, and Board of Trustees, 1915-1933; real estate and maintenance records of Polhemus Memorial Clinic, 1927-1956; and miscellaneous meetings, lecture and dinner announcements, class lists and schedules, reports, receipts, and other memorabilia.

1.5 cubic ft.

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United States. Army. 79th General Hospital.

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Long Island College Hospital. Board of Regents.

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Long Island College Hospital. Saturday and Sunday Association.

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Downstate Medical Center (N.Y.)

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In colonial New York, only a small number of almshouse infirmaries existed to care for the sick, while the mentally ill were usually imprisoned or placed in poorhouses. It was not until the early to mid-19th century, when the New York City area's dependent and poor population increased dramatically, that hospitals and other health services organizations, such as homeopaths and maternity wards, readily began to emerge. In Brooklyn specifically, the earliest hospitals included the Kin...

Long Island College of Medicine

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The Long Island College Hospital was founded in 1858 and functioned as both a hospital and medical school. Its original building was located on the west side of Henry Street between Pacific and Amity Streets in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Cobble Hill. Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, as the Hospital acquired additional departments and facilities, it achieved several distinctions in the advancement of institutional medical care: in 1860, for example, the Hos...

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

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Epithet: President of Columbia University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x000180 Butler was a philosopher, diplomat, and educator; president of Columbia University from 1901-1942. From the description of Nicholas Murray Butler letter, 1942 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 777002021 President of Columbia University. From the description of Letters to F.W. Wile and...

Long Island College Hospital. Board of Trustees.

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Babbott, Frank Lusk, 1854-1933

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Curran, Jean Alonzo, 1893-

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Jean Alonzo Curran (1893-1977), MD, 1921, Harvard Medical School, was a medical educator, historian, administrator, and consultant based in New York City and Boston, Mass. Curran was president of Long Island College of Medicine from 1942 to 1951 and oversaw the merger of the Long Island College of Medicine with the State University of New York to become the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1950. He was a consultant for historical research to Harvard School of Public Health from 1964 to 1968 and ...

Eggerth, Arnold. H. 1889-

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Long Island College Hospital

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Teaching hospital founded in 1858 as a combined hospital and medical school and located in the Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill section of New York City. From the description of Minutes, 1906 Apr. 10. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58760277 The Long Island College Hospital was founded in 1858 and functioned as both a hospital and medical school. Its original building was located on the west side of Henry Street between Pacific and Amity ...

Miller, Adam Marion, 1879-

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