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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.
History and Biography
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.
Organization
The records are arranged in three series:
I. Minutes and Correspondence
II. Financial Information
III. Other Auxiliaries.
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 | Folder | Contents |
|---|---|---|
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Series I: Minutes, Correspondence and Activities |
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| 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 | |
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Series II: Budget and Treasurer's Reports |
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| 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 | |
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Series III: Other Auxiliaries |
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| 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 |
Subject Headings and Related Records
Administrative Information
Gift of the Babies Hospital Board of Women Managers, Accession #2002.01.14
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.