Board of Women Managers records

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Creator:
Babies Hospital (New York, N.Y.) Board of Women Managers.
Date [inclusive]:
1889-1995 (bulk 1968-1995)
Languages:
English.
Physical Description:
3 cubic feet (3 record cartons.)
Collections:
Access:

Because the records include Confidential Health Information (CHI) as defined by Columbia University policies governing data security and privacy, access is allowed only under the terms of Archives and Special Collections’ Access Policy to Records Containing Confidential Health Information.

Call Number:
CUMC-0023
Control Number:
6997476
Abstract:

Minutes, correspondence, financial reports, membership lists, newsletters and other records of the Babies Hospital Board of Women Managers, as well as a small set of similar records from the Neurological Institute Auxiliary, the New York Orthopedic Hospital Auxiliary, and the Presbyterian Hospital Auxiliary.

Cite as:
Babies Hospital Board of Women Managers Records, Archives & Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences Library.
Historical/Biographical Note:

Babies Hospital was founded in 1887 by five women “to provide medical and surgical aid and nursing for sick babies,” and within twenty years it had established an outpatient department, a training school for nurses, and a summer hospital on the New Jersey shore. In 1900, it became a teaching affiliate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in 1929 it affiliated with the  Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and moved to W. 168th Street in Manhattan. L. Emmett Holt, Herbert Wilcox, Sr. and Rustin McIntosh were among the medical directors of the hospital in the 20th century. In 2003 it became the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.

The Board of Women Managers, originally known as the Board of Lady Managers, was founded along with the hospital in 1887, and supported the hospital through a variety of endeavors. Activities during the period documented by these records include monthly personal inspections and cash contributions towards the costs of repairs and refurbishment of the physical plant; financial support for the Social Service and Recreational Therapy (later Child Life) programs, including the provision of dolls for annual Christmas parties; sponsorship of lecture series, annual benefits and fund drives; and participation in United Hospital Fund (UHF) activities. Members also supported the hospital through physical labor, such as sorting and tagging items to be sold at the Auxiliary thrift store and serving as volunteers during nursing strikes and other events that reduced hospital staffing levels.

Unlike the auxiliaries of the Neurological Institute or the New York Orthopedic Hospital, the Babies Hospital Board of Women Managers did not merge with the Presbyterian Auxiliary after the Babies Hospital merged with Presbyterian Hospital in 1943. It is still independent today.

Arrangement:

The records are arranged in three series:
I. Minutes and Correspondence
II. Financial Information
III. Other Auxiliaries.
 

Scope and Content:

Minutes, correspondence, financial reports, membership lists, newsletters and other records of the Babies Hospital Board of Women Managers, as well as a small set of similar records from the Neurological Institute Auxiliary, the New York Orthopedic Hospital Auxiliary, and the Presbyterian Hospital Auxiliary.

Series I. Minutes, Correspondence and Activities
Boxes 1-2 (2 cubic feet)

Reports, minutes, correspondence, newsletters, membership lists, and other documents; arranged chronologically.

Series II. Financial Information
Box 3 (.5 cubic feet)

Treasurer’s reports and yearly budgets; arranged chronologically.

Series III. Other Auxiliaries
Box 3 (.5 cubic feet)

Minutes and financial reports from the Neurological Institute Auxiliary, the New York Orthopedic Hospital Auxiliary and the Presbyterian Hospital Auxiliary; arranged alphabetically by institution and then chronologically.

Box and Folder List:
Box Folder Contents

Series I: Minutes, Correspondence and Activities
1 1 Reports and Booklets, 1889-1913
  2 Roll Call, 1934-1969
  3 Attendance Record, 1969-1985
  4 Minutes, 1907-1914
  5 Minutes, 1914-20
  6 Miscellaneous papers and correspondence, 1930s-1940s
  7 Miscellaneous papers, correspondence and meeting minutes, 1952-1958
  8 Miscellaneous papers and correspondence, 1959-1962
  9 Miscellaneous papers and correspondence, 1963-1966
  10 Miscellaneous papers and correspondence, mostly n.d., c. 1966
  11 Minutes and correspondence, 1967-1968
  12 Minutes and correspondence, 1969
  13 Minutes and correspondence, 1970
  14 Minutes and correspondence, 1971
  15 Minutes and correspondence, 1972 (1/2)
  16 Minutes and correspondence, 1972 (2/2)
  17 Minutes, Jan. – March 1973
  18 Minutes, April – Dec. 1973
  19 Correspondence, 1973
  20 Minutes, 1974
  21 Correspondence, 1974
  22 Minutes, 1975
  23 Correspondence, 1975
  24 Correspondence 1976
  25 Minutes and correspondence, Jan. – March 1976
2 1 Minutes and correspondence, April – Oct. 1976
  2 Opening of Long Health Sciences Library, 1976
  3 Minutes, 1977
  4 Correspondence, 1977
  5 Presbyterian Hospital Benefit, 1977
  6 Dues notices, 1977
  7 United Hospital Fund (UHF), 1977
  8 Lecture series, 1977-1978
  9 Luncheon, April 12, 1977
  10 Recreational therapy, 1977-1978
  11 Recreational therapy estimates, 1977
  12 Recreational therapy drawings, n.d., c. 1977-1978
  13 10th Floor renovations, 1977-1978
  14 Membership, 1978-1979
  15 Minutes, 1978
  16 Correspondence, 1978 (1/3)
  17 Correspondence, 1978 (2/3)
  18 Correspondence, 1978 (3/3)
  19 Annual luncheon, 1978
  20 Auxiliary dues, 1978
  21 Babies Hospital air conditioning, 1978
  22 Child Psychiatry, 1976-1978
  23 UHF, 1979-1986
  24 Minutes and correspondence, 1979-1980
  25 Lecture series, 1978
  26 Membership, 1979
  27 Correspondence, 1979
  28 Auxiliary news, 1979
  29 Auxiliary, 1979
  30 Correspondence, 1979
  31 Annual luncheon, 1979
  32 UHF, 1979
  33 Auxiliary dues, 1979
  34 Minutes and correspondence, 1979-1980
  35 Luncheon, 1980
  36 Auxiliary dues, 1980
  37 Lecture series, 1980
  38 Social Service Symposium, May 1980
  39 Minutes, 1980
  40 Minutes, 1981
  41 Misc. correspondence, 1981-1989
  42 Meeting notices, 1981-1989
  43 Minutes, 1982
  44 Dues, 1982-1984
  45 Minutes, 1983
  46 Minutes, 1984
  47 Minutes, 1985
  48 Volunteer reports, 1985
  49 Anne Millard (president), misc. correspondence, 1985-1988
  50 Minutes, 1986
  51 Minutes, 1987
  52 Minutes, 1988
  53 Minutes, 1989
  54 Article about Holy Wood and Crescent Moon (opera), 1989
  55 Minutes, 1990
  56 Correspondence and misc., 1990
  57 Minutes, 1991
  58 Correspondence and misc., 1991
  59 Minutes, 1992
  60 Child Life, 1992
  61 Correspondence and finance, 1992
  62 Minutes and correspondence, 1993
  63 Finance and minutes, 1994

Series II: Budget and Treasurer's Reports
3 1 Treasurers Reports, 1976
  2 Treasurers Reports, 1977
  3 Treasurers Reports, 1978
  4 Treasurers Reports, 1979
  5 Babies’ Hospital financial records, 1977-1978
  6 Budgets, 1981
  7 Budgets, 1982
  8 Budgets, 1988
  9 Budgets, 1989
  10 Budgets, 1990
  11 Budgets, 1991
  12 Budgets, 1992
  13 Budgets, 1993
  14 Finance, 1995

Series III: Other Auxiliaries
  15 Neurological Institute Social Service Department Annual Report, 1967
  16 Neurological Institute Auxiliary, 1968
  17 Neurological Institute Auxiliary, 1969
  18 Neurological Institute Auxiliary, 1970
  19 Neurological Institute Auxiliary, 1973
  20 Neurological Institute Auxiliary, 1974
  21 Neurological Institute Auxiliary, 1977
  22 Neurological Institute Auxiliary, 1979
  23 Neurological Institute Social Service Department Annual Report,1979
  24 Neurological Institute Auxiliary, 1980
  25 Neurological Institute Auxiliary, 1981
  26 Neurological Institute Auxiliary, 1985
  27 New York Orthopedic Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Constitution 1955
  28 New York Orthopedic Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Minutes 1968
  29 New York Orthopedic Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Minutes 1970
  30 New York Orthopedic Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Minutes 1974
  31 New York Orthopedic Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Minutes 1977
  32 New York Orthopedic Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Minutes 1979
  33 New York Orthopedic Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Minutes 1980
  34 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, 1965
  35 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Correspondence, 1968
  36 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, 1968
  37 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, 1970
  38 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, Officers list 1973
  39 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, 1973
  40 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, Budget 1973-1974
  41 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, 1974
  42 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, 1975
  43 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, 1977
  44 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Newsletter Winter-Spring, 1977
  45 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, 1979
  46 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, 1980
  47 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, 1984-1985
  48 Presbyterian Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, Correspondence 1985
Subjects:
Babies Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Babies Hospital (New York, N.Y.). Board of Women Managers
Children - Hospitals - New York (State) - New York
Neurological Institute Auxiliary
New York Orthopedic Hospital. Women's Auxiliary
Volunteer workers in hospitals
Women in charitable work - New York (N.Y.)
Provenance:

Gift of the Babies Hospital Board of Women Managers, Accession #2002.01.14

Processing Notes:

The records were processed and the finding aid written by Jennifer McGillan, December 2007-May 2008. Historical information was adapted from other finding aids prepared by Bob Vietrogoski.