Personal Papers and Manuscripts
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Haven Emerson papers | Haven Emerson, 1874-1957 | 1905-1965 (bulk 1931-1934) |
Earl T. Engle papers | Earl T. (Earl Theron) Engle, 1896-1957 | 1896-1970 (bulk 1922-1930) |
James McFarland Evans account book | James McFarland Evans, 1841-1912 | ca. 1890-1901. |
Ewen McIntyre & Son prescription record books | Ewen McIntyre & Son (New York, N.Y.) | 1863, 1873, 1886-1887 |
Register of sick and prescriptions | Experiment (Schooner) | Sept. 18, 1833-July 17, 1834. |
Henry Hall Forbes papers | Henry Hall Forbes, d. 1942 | 1886-1890. |
Formulary manuscript | Unknown person (Philadelphia?) | [1850s?] |
F. Esther Fortuine papers | F. Esther (Florence Esther) Fortuine, 1886-1960 | 1917-1960 (bulk 1917-1919) |
Stanley T. Fortuine medical school notes | Stanley T. Fortuine, 1887-1944 | 1912-1916 |
Robert G. Frary financial records | Robert G. Frary, 1793-1862. | 1840-1866 (bulk 1841-1862) |
Sigmund Freud letters to Nikolaĭ E. Osipov | Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939. | 1921-1922. |
Totem und tabu. Part II : Das tabu und die ambivalenz der gefühlsregungen : holograph | Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939. | ca. 1912. |
Emanuel A. Friedman papers | Emanuel A Friedman, 1926- | 1953-1989. |
Victor Frühwald notebook and album | Victor Frühwald, b. 1885. | 1913-1930. |
William H. Geddings casebooks | Wm. H. (William H.) Geddings, 1838-1892. | 1880-1894. |
Anna Cheskis Gelman papers | Anna Cheskis Gelman, 1911-2005 | 1929-2003. |
William John Gies collection | William John Gies, 1872-1956 | 1864-1958. |
Elizabeth S. Gill papers | Elizabeth S. Gill, 1903-2003 | 1937-1968 |
James Skelton Gilliam account book and notebook | James Skelton Gilliam | ca. 1786-1787. |
Martha Teach Gnudi diary-letter | Martha Teach Gnudi, 1908-1976. | 1945, Dec. 18 – 1946, March 15. |
M. M. Goodrich papers | M. M Goodrich, 1925- | 1975-2006 (bulk 1983-2003). |
Elspeth A. Gould diary | Elspeth A. Gould, 1885-1962 | 1917 May 14 - 1918 January 29 |
Graham Family papers | Graham family | 1773-1825 |
Alexander Greig letters | Alexander Greig | 1826, 1840-1842, 1847-1849 |
Albert W. Grokoest papers | Albert W Grokoest, 1917-1991 | 1924-1999. |
Lowell Walter Gurnsey notebook | Lowell Walter Gurnsey | 1822-1839 (bulk 1822) |
Betty Nordstrom Hanway scrapbook | Betty Nordstrom Hanway | 1948-1951, 1970 |
Leonard C. Harber papers | Harber, Leonard C. | 1926-2011 |
Donald Harter papers | Donald Harter | 1899-1998 (bulk 1970-1972) |
Five years in Syria | Wilma Stevens Hawkins | 1934-1939 [compiled, c.1980?] |
Laura Antoinette Weeks Hesselberg scrapbook | Laura Antoinette Weeks Hesselberg | 1897-1922 |
William Avery Hillard casebook | William Avery Hillard, d.1938 | 1897-1903. |
Herman E. Hilleboe papers | Herman E. (Herman Ertresvaag) Hilleboe, 1906-1974 | 1931-1968 (bulk 1958-1968) |
Fred Junkin Hinkhouse diary | Fred Junkin Hinkhouse, 1895-1956 | 1917-1918 |
David Webb Hodgkins papers | David Webb Hodgkins, 1834-1898. | 1820-1898 (bulk 1858-1870) |
Letters from Second General | Aileen I. Hogan, d. 1981 | 1942-1945 [compiled, c.1980] |
L. Emmett Holt patient records | L. Emmett Holt, 1855-1924 | 1901-1923 |
Edgar M. Housepian papers | Edgar M. Housepian, 1928-2014 | circa 1950-2010 |
Benjamin Howe ledger | Benjamin Howe | 1811-1822 |
Francis Huber papers | Francis Huber, 1854-1934. | 1897-1932. |
Henry R. Humphries lectures on shell shock | Henry Richard Humphries, 1873-1927 | ca. 1920 |
James Ramsay Hunt casebooks | James Ramsay Hunt, 1875-1937. | 1903-1937 |
Jean Ketcham Lominska Collection of Huntington Family papers | Jean Ketcham Lominska, 1913-2010 | 1850-1985 (bulk 1858-1916). |
George Huntington papers | George Huntington, 1850-1916 | 1845-2000 |
Alfred Jaretzki papers | Jaretzki, Alfred, 1919- | 1948-2009 |
William Jarvie papers | William Jarvie, 1841-1921 | ca. 1856-1918 |
Smith Ely Jelliffe City Hospital cases | Smith Ely Jelliffe, 1866-1945 | 1906-1907 |
Norman Jolliffe papers | Norman Jolliffe, 1901-1961. | 1892-1963 (bulk 1935-1961) |
Julius Kaunitz papers | Julius Kaunitz, 1882-1979 | 1918, 1930-1977 |
Patricia Hayes Keough photograph album | Patricia Hayes Keough | 1943-1946 |
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As part of its mission to document the history of the health sciences both generally and at Columbia University, Archives & Special Collections actively collects the personal papers of those men and women who have had distinguished careers in medicine, nursing, dentistry or public health. We also acquire individual manuscripts, such as letters, student notebooks, or physician's casebooks, if they have some connection with Columbia University, the Presbyterian Hospital, or New York.
Personal papers and manuscripts date from the 16th century to the present with the bulk being from the last century. The majority are from physicians and biomedical scientists associated with Columbia including Nobel Laureates André Cournand and Dickinson Richards; plastic surgery pioneer and historian of medicine Jerome P. Webster; community psychiatrist and social activist Viola Bernard; dental education reformer William Gies; early dyslexia researchers Samuel and June Lyday Orton; and physiologist Frederic Schiller Lee, among many others.
Of particular interest is the Student Notebook Collection which holds about 150 volumes created by more than 40 individuals from 1786 into the 1950s. The vast majority of these notebooks document medical education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, with the major exception being John Kearney Rodgers's notes from his studies with Sir Astley Cooper and John Abernethy in London in 1817-1818.
Other highlights include a 16th century record book from the Pharmacy of St. Paul in Bologna; several letters of Sigmund Freud and part of his autograph draft for Totem und Tabu; and 19th century patient casebooks from Presbyterian, Bellevue and several other New York City hospitals.
Records of most manuscript collections are included in CLIO, the library's catalog.