Manuscript/Mixed Material National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary
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Image 1 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary NAWSA SUBJECT FILE New York Infirmary Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 2 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary see picture attached DR ELIZABETH BLACKWELL Photograph from a sketch of Dr Elizabeth Blackwell made in 1859 by the Countess Clarice de Charnace I had never seen the sketch but heard much…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 3 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary We take up the task of eternal and the burden and the lesson Pioneers O Pioneers Walt Whitman Elizabeth Blackwell Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Sophia JexBlake 1866 Jubilee Appeal 1916 The New Hospital…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 4 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary New York Infirmary Dr Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman physician in the modern world She graduated at the Geneva Medical School in 1849 She had applied for admission to many better…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 5 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary In 1848 a few women led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called the first womans convention ever held and it met in Seneca Falls New York in July of that…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 6 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary 3 colleges willing to accept them Philadelphia Boston and Chicago also opened womens medical colleges for the same reason Elizabeth shortly went to England and never returned to make her home in…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 7 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary Dr Elizabeth Blackwell For the New York Infirmary This special Gravure Section is devoted to benefit advertising for The New York Infirmary All of the photographs were posed exclusively for The Infirmary…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 8 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary COPY NEW YORK INFIRMARY FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN June 29 1932 Dear Mr Usually we send our annual report to every contributor but this year we are saving every possible expense and…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 9 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary The New York Infirmary A CENTURY OF DEVOTED SERVICE 1854 1954 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 10 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary Copyright 1954 by the New York Infirmary The New York Infirmary A CENTURY OF DEVOTED SERVICE 1854 1954 CONTENTS Dedication 23 The First Hundred Years 446 The New Hospital Picture Story 4761…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 11 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary Dedication THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED to all the men and the women who during the past hundred years have unstintingly devoted their time and their resources to the welfare of the New…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 12 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary Dr Elizabeth Blackwell receives a patient in her oneroom dispensary near Tompkins Square The First Hundred Years THE BEGINNINGS ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO in a small sparselyequipped room on East Seventh Street…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 13 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary atmosphere of liberal thought being himself a champion of electoral reform of equal rights for men and women and of the abolition of slavery Mr Blackwell a sugar refiner came to America…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 14 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary was then the lot of many women This was to be a lifelong friendship from which both women were to obtain a great benefit Elizabeth returned to America in 1851 By this…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 15 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary lacked medical service of any kind Babies were born and died in filthy cellars Typhoid diphtheria and other infectious diseases raged The new dispensary which opened in March 1854 consisted of one…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 16 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary Greeley did his best to insure the success of the occasion by running the following account in The New York Tribune of December 5 1856 A noteworthy characteristic of our day is…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 17 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary the new Infirmary would stand alone not only in New York but in the entire country She added The full thorough education of women in medicine is a new idea and like…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 18 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary their official titles and duties In reality all three pitched in and attended to any piece of work which needed doing regardless of its nature Marie started out at 530 am once…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 19 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary TRAINING NURSES IN 1858 DURING A VISIT TO ENGLAND Elizabeth Blackwell conversed at length with her friend Florence Nightingale about the latters plans for the Nightingale Training School for Nurses This school…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 20 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary on what passed for training at some of the schools then in existence the loopholeridden examining system the granting of degrees to men who had had but ten months of study and…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 21 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary A cadaver is dissected during an early anatomy lesson at the Medical College Three early graduates to join the faculty were Dr Elizabeth Cushier Dr Gertrude B Kelly and Dr Martha Wollstein…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 22 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary 1887 declared that the most brilliant medical graduate he had ever examined was a young Chinese woman of the class of 1885 Dr Yei Men Kum Two Blackwell nieces Dr Edith Brown…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 23 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary supplying what is still the greatest need of women physicians wider opportunities for practical work after graduation Speaking of the practices of women generally you will find them everywhere and in every…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 24 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary sketch of family with two children in bed Doctor nurse and sanitary visitor fight disease in tenement building physician or by Infirmary internes In 1881 this service was taken over by antoher…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 25 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary in a few moments if not relieved Dr McNutt went directly to work Her tracheotomy was witnessed by a large audience of passerby who had gathered outside on the street Toward evening…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 26 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary to identify released prisoners Later installed in an old German hospital at Metz they worked with the British French and Russian whose prisoners were being released from German camps Dr Gregory had…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 27 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary There was only slight hope that the Infirmary as such could be saved but this hope was kept alive by the doctors and by a few faithful trustees and friends who went…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 28 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary sessions at the Dispensary devoted to such specialties as Allergy Arthritis Cardiac Cases Child Guidance Diabetes Endocrinology Maternal Welfare Neuropsychiatry Occupational Therapy PreNatal Care PreSchool Problems Social Diseases Sterility Varicose Veins and…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 29 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary PEDIATRICS CHILDREN ARE BORN TO LIVE NOT DIE Dr Elizabeth Blackwell had been heard to say frequently From the Infirmarys very beginning in the days of high infant mortality its staff has…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 30 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary VOLUNTEERS FROM THE DAYS WHEN THE MODEST QUAKER LADIES rustled through the Bleecker Street Infirmary to count the linen supply the Christmas plum pudding and order weather stripping to keep out the…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 31 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary beginning with early morning phone calls and ending up often late at night with gathering up the remnants of a sale can never be evaluated All manner of persons have given thought…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 32 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary In the winter of 1947 a brilliant theatrical review Women in White was arranged by Mr and Mrs Nicholas Schenck and Mr Harry Brandt in Madison Square Garden This event was preceded…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 33 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary The hospital moved into the temporary quarters at Manhattan General in February 1952 Few bed patients had to be moved as the majority had been discharged after a normal hospital stay and…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 34 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary In new hospital no ward contains more than four beds Room shown below is on the obstetrical floor Caesarian section shown below is performed by Infirmary staff in one of hospotals three…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 35 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary top left image caption Diagnostic XRay equipment is adjusted by technician to make negative of patients skull middle left image caption XRay negatives are compared and studied in viewing room bottom left…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 36 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary Child suffering from negativism shows marked improvement as result of treatment in speech clinic Orthodontia clinicstraight teeth will help to keep this young lady healthy Two young ladies attend remedial reading clinic…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 37 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary top left image caption Typical twobed rooms in Infirmarys pediatric department on the tenth floor bottom left image caption The day room for children on tenth floor has furniture built to scale…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 38 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary left image caption The facilities in the infirmarys laboratories are unusually extensive Here a technician uses a ThomasVan Slyke manometric apparatus to make a blood determination 56 top right image caption Valuable…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 39 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary image top right caption Cafeteria for Infirmary staff has capacity for 128 persons serves excellent food at low prices image top left caption Food for hospital is prepared in large kitchens equipped…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 40 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; New York Infirmary image top left caption Social work supervisor interviews mother of family to help iron out domestic problems image middle left caption Large room on ground floor of hospital is completely equipped for…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851