Nursery and Child's Hospital records, 1854-1934 (bulk 1890-1934).

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Nursery and Child's Hospital (New York, N.Y.). Nursery and Child's Hospital records, 1854-1934 (bulk 1890-1934).

Nursery and Child's Hospital records, 1854-1934 (bulk 1890-1934).

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Records, 1934-1934 (bulk 1890-1934) relating to the Nursery and Child's Hospital. They include scrapbooks, account books, correspondence, and miscellaneous manuscripts and printed ephemera. The scrapbooks are mainly concerned with the charity ball held annually to raise funds, and contain correspondence, mailing lists, accounts, menus, and ribbon badges, as well as clippings from newspapers and magazines reporting on the balls; a separate volume contains the membership record of the charity ball floor committee, 1900-1904. Other volumes related to the hospital include a menu book for January - April, 1903, and eight volumes of accounts, 1884-1900. Loose papers include correspondence about the management of the hospital and its outpost in Staten Island, medical reports, monthly reports to the State Board of Health, and various printed pamphlets and ephemera dealing with the hospital rules, with its history, or appealing for funds. Some letters written in the 1850s by Mary A. Du Bois, the hospital's first director, discuss some cases admitted to the hospital, and appeal for financial and political support; a letter from Erastus Brooks discusses efforts to get state support for the institution. An offprint of an article by Mary A. Du Bois, Thirty years experience in nursery and child hospital work, gives some of the background. Other records deal with the various buildings belonging to the hospital. There are also rules and regulations, both printed and manuscript; a pamphlet about their consolidation with the New York Infant Asylum in 1910; a pamphlet about the 1923 celebrations of the centennial of the New York Asylum for Lying-In Women, to which they were the successor institution; material about benefit performances at the Metropolitan Opera, including copies of the contracts; lists of the nurses' meals in 1895; an appraisal, dated 1910, of the value of their buildings in Staten Island; letters appealing to Staten Island tradesmen to contribute to the children's annual outing; and other miscellaneous material. Much of the correspondence is addressed to Mary Mildred Sullivan, director of the hospital, and organizer of the charity balls. She was the wife of a prominent lawyer, Algernon Sydney Sullivan, and had served as a Confederate nurse during the Civil War. There is also correspondence of her son, George H. Sullivan.

1.2 linear feet (3 boxes, 2 oversize)

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