Organization Type: Library Address: Abbott Hall City: Buffalo State Or Province: New York Zip / Postal Code: 14214 Country: United States Telephone Number: 716-829-5737 Fax Number: (716) 829-2211 Abstract: Established in 1972, the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection contains more than 13,000 volumes of 19th century monographs with particular strength in the areas of obstetrics/gynecology, surgery, dentistry, psychiatry, pharmacology, and oncology. Additional holdings include a collection of more than 500 pre 19th century titles. The Collection also houses several special collections including the Edgar McGuire Historical Medical Instrument Collection that features medical and health sciences instruments and artifacts such as Auzoux anatomical models, microscopes, and a Staffordshire leech jar; a full run of the Buffalo Medical Journal (1846-1919), the Bonnie and Vern Bullough History of Nursing Collection; the Dr. Homer T. Jackson Collection featuring the notebooks and instruments of Dr. Jackson, a late 19th c. upstate New York country doctor; Historical Artifacts from the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; as well as a collection of early 20th c. Medical Newspaper Clippings. Publications: Pre-Nineteenth Century Catalogue of the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection. Holdings: Pre 19th century: 500+ titles; 19th century: 13,000+ titles. Contact Name, Title: Linda Lohr Contact Telephone Number: (716) 829-5737 Contact Email Address: lalohr@buffalo.edu Web Site: http://library.buffalo.edu/historyofmedicine Collection Subject Strengths: History of Gynecology and Obstetrics, History of Medicine, History of Neurology [show all 8] Organization Type: Archive Address: Ehrman Medical Library, Rm. MSB 197 New York University Medical Center 550 First Avenue City: New York State Or Province: New York Zip / Postal Code: 10016 Country: United States Telephone Number: 212-263-8280 Fax Number: (212) 263-6534 Abstract: The Archives houses the historical records of the New York University Medical Center and the New York University School of Medicine. The Collection consists of official records of administrative and academic departments, audiovisual material, and manuscripts documenting the history of the institution. SERVICES: hours are 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday; collection open to persons conducting legitimate research; please call for appointment. Photocopying depends on condition of the material. Holdings: The Archives maintains the records of the Office of the Provost, the Medical Center Administration, the Director and Administrators of the hospital, the Deans and Administrators of the various schools, as well as department records and personal papers of NYU physicians. Collection includes about 3,000 photographs of hospital buildings, past and present, faculty, staff, and students, operating theaters, and patient wards; 2 cabinets of artifacts related to the history of the school; and 34 rolls of microfilm newspaper articles devoted to the development of the institution. One hundred and five patient casebooks, which record individual ailments and the treatments patients received between 1840 and 1940, have been converted to microfilm, and the originals stored in the Archives. The Collection is organized by subject. The main finding aid is a card catalog, which is currently beginning digitized, as are the photographs in the collection. Contact Name, Title: Sushan Chin, Archivist Contact Telephone Number: (212) 263-8280 Contact Email Address: sushan.chin@med.nyu.edu Web Site: http://archives.med.nyu.edu Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Medicine Organization Type: Archive Address: 1300 York Ave #34 City: New York State Or Province: New York Zip / Postal Code: 10065-4805 Country: United States Telephone Number: 212-746-6072 Fax Number: (212) 746-8279 Abstract: Medical Center Archives is the official records repository for the New York-Presbyterian Hospital (East Campus) and Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University. Hospital records date from 1771 and medical college records date from 1898. Holdings include administrative and departmental records, patient records, and personal papers of prominent individuals who have been associated with the institutions. Records reflect health care, medical research, nursing, and medical education over a period of more than 225 years. Records of some antecedent or merged institutions are also available: Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York (1799-1939), New York Asylum for Lying-In Women (1823-1899), New York Infant Asylum (1865-1910), Nursery for the Children of Poor Women and Nursery & Child's Hospital (1854-1910) and the New York Hospital (1771-1977). RESTRICTIONS: The provisions of the federal government's Privacy Rule (HIPPA) govern research access to patient information. SERVICES: Open for public research, by appointment only: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Written reference requests only via post, fax, or email. Photo reproduction and limited photocopying. Holdings: Archival holdings include approximately 6,000 linear feet of paper records and nearly 20,000 photographs. There are extensive series of 19th century medical and surgical patient case histories. In addition to institutional and patient records, the archives holds approximately 150 collections of personal papers and manuscripts from individual physicians, faculty, nurses, students, and administrators who have been associated with the medical center. Notable are the collections of Hugh DeHaven, Eugene F. Dubois, Vincent du Vigneaud (1955 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry). Frank Glenn, Connie M. Guion (first female professor of clinical medicine), George J. Heuer, Benjamin H. Kean (professor/researcher in the fields of tropical medicine and parasitology), Walsh McDermott, George N. Papanicolaou (developer of the "Pap" smear), David E. Rogers (founding president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and co-chairman of the National Commission on AIDS), Julia C. Stimson (head of the Army Nurse Corp during World War I), and Harold G. Wolff. Holdings also include over 50 oral history interviews, collected between 1965 and 1985, with professors, physicians, and nurses who have been associated with Cornell University Medical College, New York Hospital, and Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing. Contact Name, Title: Elizabeth M. Shepard, Associate Archivist Contact Telephone Number: (212) 746-6072 Contact Email Address: email-archives@med.cornell.edu Web Site: http://www.med.cornell.edu/archives Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Medicine, History of Nursing [show all 4] Organization Type: Library Address: 1216 Fifth Avenue City: New York State Or Province: New York Zip / Postal Code: 10029 Country: United States Telephone Number: 212-822-7315 Abstract: Initially established as a medical collection for the use of physicians, the Library opened to the public in 1878. As a working professional library, the collection’s primary focus was first in contemporary medicine, but soon extended to rare and historical materials. The Library's current focus has shifted to building on its historical holdings, including current works in the history of medicine. The Library houses much of its rare book collection in the Drs. Barry and Bobbi Coller Rare Book Reading Room, which also contains many secondary sources in the history of medicine, the history of books and printing, medical bibliography, biography and dictionaries. Manuscripts and archives include the Academy's own archives, the archives of a number of professional societies and organizations, case books, medical student notebooks, and culinary and medicinal receipt books. These archives serve as a primary resource for the history of health administration, medical education, public health, and medical practice in New York City. SERVICES: reference, interlibrary loan, photo duplication Holdings: Incunabula: 164 titles; 16th century: 2,100 titles; 17th century: 2,700 titles; 18th century: 7,300 titles; 19th century: 46,000 titles. Classics: 16th century European works, with special emphasis on anatomy and surgery. Works from other time periods: originals, translations, reprints of Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, Avicenna, Ketham, Malpighi, Jenner, etc. Original editions by the great men of science: Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Bacon, etc. Manuscripts: over 2,000, notably Apicius, De re culinaria (9th century) and Guy de Chauliac (15th century). Subject areas: plagues and epidemics; astrology and the occult; popular healing with emphases on diet, balneology, cookery and nutrition; medical Americana (late 17th to mid 19th century); European medical dissertations (17th to 19th century); early works on cardiology, including the two first editions of Harvey's De motu cordis... (1628); broadsides (16th 19th century) on such topics as public health and food regulation. The named special collections include, but are not limited to: Michael M. Davis Collection of Social and Economic Aspects of Medicine; Margaret Barclay Wilson Collection on Food and Cookery; Hayes Martin Collection of 17th through 20th century engravings and woodcuts; Beekman Collection of Hunteriana; Rufus Cole Collection of works by and about Francesco Redi and his circle; Harms Collection of pre 1900 psychiatry and psychology. The collections of portraits of physicians and illustrations of medical activities include over 275,000 items. Printed Catalogs: Portrait Catalog (3rd Supplement, 1976), Illustration Catalog (3rd Supplement, 1976), Author Catalog of the Library (1st Supplement, 1974); Subject Catalog of the Library (1st Supplement, 1974); Catalog of Biographies in the Library (1960). Contact Name, Title: Arlene Shaner, MA, MLS., Historical Collections Librarian Contact Telephone Number: (212) 822-7313 Contact Email Address: ashaner@nyam.org Web Site: https://www.nyam.org/library Collection Subject Strengths: History of Alternative Medicine, History of Anatomy, History of Botany [show all 13] Organization Type: Library Address: 601 Elmwood Avenue City: Rochester State Or Province: New York Zip / Postal Code: 14642 Country: United States Telephone Number: 585-275-2979 Abstract: Access to the collections and reference assistance are available Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Researchers from out of town are requested to make arrangements in advance. Photographic reproduction of materials will be arranged at cost. Photocopying is discouraged, though exceptions may be made at the discretion of the librarian. Holdings: The rare book collections comprise some 2,500 titles printed before 1800; 10,000 19th century titles; and 5,000 titles published between 1900 and 1950. Although all areas of the biomedical sciences are represented, the rare book collections are particularly strong in early printed anatomy, obstetrics & gynecology, orthopedics, dentistry, cholera, yellow fever and American popular medicine. Catalogs have been published that describe two of these collections: An Annotated Catalog of the Miner Yellow Fever Collection (Rochester, NY: Edward G. Miner Library, 1990); and the two-volume Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001-2004). The collection of printed materials includes nearly a thousand 18th through early 20th century biomedical periodicals published in the United States, Great Britain, and Europe. Special collections are supplemented by some 5,000 secondary works on the history of the biomedical sciences housed within the department. Faculty manuscript collections comprise the greater part of our archival collections. These include the papers of such figures as founding dean and Nobel prize winner George Hoyt Whipple; the psychiatrists John Romano and George Engel; physiologists Wallace Osgood Fenn and Edward Adolph, the papers of each of the School of Nursing deans, etc. Inventories for faculty and non-faculty collections are accessible on the Rare Books & Manuscripts website. 5,000 prints and negatives comprise the archival photograph collection, providing views of buildings, laboratories, patient care areas, medical & nursing class photos, portraits of faculty & staff, etc. taken from 1922 to 1970. Contact Name, Title: Christopher Hoolihan, Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarian Contact Telephone Number: (585) 275-2979 Contact Email Address: christopher_hoolihan@urmc.rochester.edu Web Site: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/HSLT/miner/ Collection Subject Strengths: History of Anatomy, History of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, History of Gynecology and Obstetrics [show all 7]
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