Records, 1911-1968.

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Records, 1911-1968.

Included are minutes, reports, and miscellaneous documents. Also, correspondence concerning alcohol and narcotics addiction, various diseases, autopsies, air pollution, Bellevue Hospital, birth control, blood banks and blood donors, clinics, death certificates, drugs, hospitals, legislation, mental health, New York City Dept. of Health, nurses and nursing, cancer, poliomyelitis, and other topics. Correspondents prominently represented include George Baehr, Leona Baumgartner, Charles Frederick Bolduan, Charles Loomis Dana, Haven Emerson, Sigismund Schulz Goldwater, James Alexander Miller, John Levi Rice, Alvin Leroy Barach, Frederick Randolph Bailey; Walter Belknap James, George William Kosmak, Charles Norris, William Hallock Park, and Ernest Lyman Stebbins. Also included is correspondence of Executive Secretaries Dr. Edward Henry Lewinski Corwin and Dr. Harry Daton Kruse; and letters from Alfred Charles Kinsey and from Margaret Sanger, ca. 1921-1929, concerning birth control.

ca. 12 cubic ft.

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Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966

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Margaret Louise Higgins was born in Corning, New York, on September 15, 1879, the sixth of eleven children and the third of four daughters born to Anne Purcell Higgins and Michael Hennessey Higgins, a stone mason. Her two elder sisters worked to supplement the family income, and financed her education at Claverack College, a private coeducational preparatory school in the Catskills. After leaving Claverack, Higgins took a job teaching first grade to immigrant children, but decided after a short ...

New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Health.

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Rice, John Levi.

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Bolduan, Frederick Charles.

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Goldwater, S. S. (Sigismund Schulz), 1873-1942

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Kruse, H. D. 1900-

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Dana, Charles L. (Charles Loomis), 1852-1935

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Stebbins, Ernest Lyman.

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Corwin, E. H. L. (Edward Henry Lewinski), 1885-1953

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Norris, Charles H., 1923-

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Baehr, George 1887-1978

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Dr. Baehr, a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine as of 1918, served as its president from 1945 to 1946. From the description of Reprints of George Baehr's articles, 1909-1963. (New York Academy of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 77756139 Medical educator, clinician, group health prepayment plan founder, and administrator; M.D., Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1908; held a series of appointments at Mount Sinai, 1913-1950; advised Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia on...

Bailey, Frederick R. (Frederick Randolph), 1871-1923

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James, Walter Belknap.

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New York City physician; co-founder and officer of the Edward L. Trudeau Foundation, a tuberculosis research foundation. From the description of Papers, 1909-1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155479728 ...

Kosmak, George William, 1873-

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Baumgartner, Leona, 1902-1991

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Leona Baumgartner (1902-1991), A.B., 1923, University of Kansas; M.A., 1925, University of Kansas; Ph.D., 1932, Yale University; M.D., 1934, Yale University, was the first female Commissioner of Public Health for New York City, 1954 to 1962, and later became an Assistant Director of the Agency for International Development (AID), a position she held until 1965. She was named Visiting Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in 1966, where she served until her retirement in...

Barach, Alvin Leroy.

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Miller, James Alexander

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New York Academy of Medicine. Committee on Public Health

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Park, William Hallock, 1863-1939

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Physician. Park was an alumnus of City College, Class of 1883. From the description of Memorabilia, 1926-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155503609 ...

Bellevue Hospital

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The Chest Department of Bellevue Hospital established one of the first tuberculosis units in New York City in 1903. From the description of Chest collection, 1906-1939, 1909-1923 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155490050 ...

Kinsey, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956

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George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) Alfred C. Kinsey, most famous for his work on human sexual behavior, was a world authority on gallflies, also known as Cynipidae or gall wasps. Kinsey began his entomological studies in 1917, eventually traveling to 54 locations in 36 states, and accumula...

Emerson, Haven, 1874-1957

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of Haven Emerson : oral history, 1950. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309730504 ...