Womens Medical Society of New York State records, 1907-1972.
Collection Number: 2609
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Womens Medical Society of New York State records, 1907-1972.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2609
Abstract:
Correspondence for the United Board for Christian Colleges in China; officials in
medical schools in China, Korea, and India; student recipients of medical scholarships;
and medical missionaries concerning their activities and the financial support which
the Society gave to Christian women medical students in these countries; letters of
women doctors concerning the business of the Society; and newsletters and circular
letters of the Society, its Medical Education Committee, and various organizations
and persons mentioned above. Also, minutes, reports, and financial accounts (1937-1966),
membership lists, a register (1907-1956) including signatures of those attending various
Society meetings, a scrapbook (1911-1953), a record book (1918-1952) consisting mainly
of accounts of the Medical Education Committee, clippings, photographs, and manuscript
and printed miscellany.
Creator:
Women\'s Medical Society of New York State
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Women's Medical Society of New York State records, #2609. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Correspondence for the United Board for Christian Colleges in China; officials in
medical schools in China, Korea, and India; student recipients of medical scholarships;
and medical missionaries concerning their activities and the financial support which
the Society gave to Christian women medical students in these countries; letters of
women doctors concerning the business of the Society; and newsletters and circular
letters of the Society, its Medical Education Committee, and various organizations
and persons mentioned above. Among the correspondents are Drs. Emily Dunning Barringer,
Mary Theresa Greene, Rosetta Sherwood Hall, Jennie H. Harris, Harriet Hosmer, M. Pauline
Jeffrey, and Sherwood Hall. Also, minutes, reports, and financial accounts (1937-1966),
membership lists, a register (1907-1956) including signatures of those attending various
Society meetings, a scrapbook (1911-1953), a record book (1918-1952) consisting mainly
of accounts of the Medical Education Committee, clippings, photographs, and manuscript
and printed miscellany.
Also, records concerning the Medical Women's International Association (1962-1967)
and the American Medical Women's Alliance (1960-1971).
Names:
Barringer, Emily Dunning, 1876-1961.
Greene, Mary Theresa.
Hall, Rosetta Sherwood.
Hall, Sherwood, 1893-
Harris, Jennie H.
Hosmer, Harriet.
Jeffrey, M. Pauline.
United Board for Christian Colleges in China
Women\'s Medical Society of New York State. Medical Education Committee
Medical Women\'s International Association
American Medical Women\'s Alliance
Medical Women\'s International Association
Pan American Medical Women\'s Alliance
American Medical Women\'s Association, Inc
Places:
Korea.
India.
China.
Subjects:
Women physicians.
Women missionaries.
Women in medicine.
Religion.
Medicine -- Education.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1928-1940 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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1941-1946 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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1947-1948 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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1949-1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
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1951-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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1953-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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1955-1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
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1957-1966 |
Scope and Contents
Includes 3 postcards of Castile Sanitarium run by Mary T. Greene, one of which was
included with a letter to Harriett Northrup from Edward Greene, 1 unidentified photograph
enclosed with November 28, 1957 letter from Pauline Jeffery, Kotagiri, Nilgiris, India,
1 photograph of Grace Ratnakumari included with undated letter to donor, photograph
of Mary Susheela included with August 22, 1960 letter to donor, photograph of Grace
Mathew included with September 4, 1961 letter to donor
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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1967-1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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1971-1979 |
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of obituary of Irene A. Koeneke and article announcing her being awarded
the University of Kansas Distinguished Service Citation
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Wallin bequest, Mathilda K. Wallin Fund
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1955-1963 |
Scope and Contents
Copies of the will of Mathilda K. Wallin bequeathing $10,031.19 to the Women's Medical
Society of New York State (will dated Nov. 15,1955, money received Sept. 22, 1959),
correspondence relating to the settlement
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Series II. Other records and memorabilia
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Women's Medical Society of New York membership list
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1913 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Women's Medical Society of New York list of names
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1940-1947 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Women's Medical Society of New York list of names, membership list
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1947-1949 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Women Physicians in Medical Directory of New York State for 1953, alphabetical list
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Women's Medical Society of New York State membership list and rosters
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1970-1972 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Women's Medical Society of New York State list of officers
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1955, 1970s |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Meeting minutes, reports, correspondence
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1943-1947 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, agendas
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1948-1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, agendas
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1951-1954 |
Scope and Contents
Includes form with biographical data for Medical Woman of the Year for 1954, Mary
T. Greene, M.D.
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, agendas
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1955-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, agendas
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1960-1965 |
Scope and Contents
Includes newspaper clipping for Medical Woman of the Year , Dr. Margaret A. Baker
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, agendas
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1966-1972 |
Scope and Contents
Includes President's address February 13, 1966, newspaper clippings - obituaries,
copy of certificate of recognition to Mrs. E. Snell Hall, press release - annual meeting
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Medical Education Committee reports, bank books and receipts
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1937-1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Income tax exemption forms and correspondence
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1959-1970 |
Box 3 | MU-2053 |
2 stamp seals Women's Medical Society
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n.d. |
Box 3 | MU-2054 |
Small box containing 2 oval pins from the oval American Medical Women's Association
and attached ribbons. Box says "Awards Branch 18 AMWA to Women's Medical Society of
New York State".
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n.d. |
Series III. Manuscript and printed miscellany
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Miscellaneous documents
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1930-1954 |
Scope and Contents
Includes brochures, sheet of seals for the eradication of tuberculosis from Ajmer,
India, programs, blank birth certificate ballots for officers, articles from Medical Women's Journal
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Miscellaneous documents
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1960s |
Scope and Contents
Includes "Some Questions Commonly Asked Americans by People in the Soviet Union" and
"Things to do and see in the USSR, Moscow, Leningrad by Information Center for American
Travelers to the Soviet Union, "Abstracts of lectures to be presented at A Symposium
on Sexual Problems in Clinical Practice, Washington, D.C., Saturday , November 5,
1966", Medicine at Work pamphlet, special issue pamphlet - Women in Health, November
1965 by pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, brochures - AMDOC, Foreign Service
Team Preceptorship Program, Women's National Safety Conference Citation Awards Program,
The Elizabeth Blackwell Award by Hobart & William Smith College, program for Presentation
of the Elizabeth Blackwell Award, Sunday, July 10, 1966
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Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Warner, Dr. Marie P.
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1970s |
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of obituary, curriculum vitaes, New York Infirmary reappointment form
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Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Newsletters
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1948-1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Newspaper and magazine clippings, articles
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1935-1973 |
Scope and Contents
Includes obituaries, awards, meetings, medical issues, women's medical practice, copy
of "Women's Medical Society of New York State - A Brief History" by Isabella F. Borden,
M.D. from Journal of the American Medical Women's Association volume 10, number 2, February 1955, "New York Medical Archives in Upstate Area" by
Herbert Finch, Ph.D. from New York State Journal of Medicine, June 15, 1971
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Newspaper and magazine clippings
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1944 |
Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Women Physicians' League constitution
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1953 |
Box 2 |
Volume labeled "Women's Medical Society Register", including signatures of those attending
various Society meetings - acting and associate members, visitors, guests
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1907-1956 | |
Box 2 |
Volume labeled "July 12, 1918 to Jan 1, 1952 Financial Record Book of Medical Education
Committee"
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August 1917-February 1953 | |
Scope and Contents
Includes membership list from April 28, 1913, mounted letters, excerpts from The Medical Women's Journal, and printed meeting materials
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Scrapbook pages
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1911-1953 |
Scope and Contents
Includes magazine clippings, newspaper clippings, photograph of doctor at a mission,
obituaries, Journal of the American Medical Women's Association Volume 5, March 1950, Number 3, October 1950, Number 10, and December 1950, Number
12, excerpts from Volume 7, June 1952, Number VI,2 postcards of first senior class
W.M.I, Seoul, Korea, Tuberculosis Control in Two Lands [Korea and India] reprinted
from World Outlook(367), sheet of seals for the eradication of tuberculosis in India
and Pakistan, correspondence, list of names September 14, 1911, Castile, New York
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Scrapbook, loose items
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1911-1956 |
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of captioned newspaper photograph and original photograph of Dr. En-Mei
Yui, Dr. Mary T. Greene, Dr,. Rosetta Sherwood Hall, and Dr. Marion Craig Potter,
September 14,1911 library steps Castile, New York photograph of Dr. Katherine Mulhall,
Dr. Jessica W. Findlay, Dr. Hatch, Dr. Sherman Riker, Dr. Mary Sloan, Dr. Helene Kuhlman,
Dr. Dickinson, Dr. Christiana, Marian Greene, Dr. May Allen, Dr. Himmelsbock, Dr.
Justin, Dr. Bennett, Dr. Mary Greene, Dr. Pierson, Dr. Louise Hurrell, and Dr. Clara
March, 3 photographs - Liu Yui 1937, Dr. Y.T. Jiang and Dr. C.T. Chow 1937, Chang
Hsiao Chang and Li Kwei Ling 1948, photographs of students Margaret Garrett and Kunjoonjamma
Jacob, photograph of M.P. Jeffery, Edna Engle, and Nurse Kamalani, photograph K.M.F.
chapel and dispensary building, 2 postcards of first senior class W.M.I, Seoul, Korea,
resolution, ballots, meeting and annual dinner programs, Elizabeth Blackwell award
pamphlet, correspondence, receipts, postcard new buildings of Ewha College, Seoul,
Korea, postcard three senoir W.F.M.S. physicians of Korea - Dr. Rosetta Sherwood Helb,
Dr. Mary Cutler, Dr. Stewart, printed photograph on Marian B. Hall, M.D., copy of
picture and map of the new home of the W.M.I, Seoul,Korea with text in Korean, printed
card including photograph from the Kotagiri Medical Fellowship, South India, photograph
Dr. Rosetta Sherwood Hall, grand aunt of Rosetta Hall, magazine articles, obituaries,
blank dues card, reports, committee members, letters in Korean, booklet - photographs
of Greene Sanitarium and grounds, Castile, NY, World Service of the Methodist Episcopal
Church missions program
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Medical Women's Journal Volume 56
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July 1949 |
Scope and Contents
Missing cover and pages 3-14
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Series IV. Medical Women's International Association (Association internationale des
femmes médecins)
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Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Medical Women's International Association Xth Extraordinary General Assembly, Sandefjord,
Norway, June 29-July 3, 1964
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1964 |
Scope and Contents
Program, statutes, agenda, financial reports, bound copy of Tenth General Assembly
(Extraordinary) of the Medical Women's International Association M.W.I.A. lectures
(received until June 14th)
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Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Medical Women's International Association Tenth Congress, Rochester, New York and
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, July 9-15, 1966
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1964-1966 |
Scope and Contents
Programs, registrant list, workbook, remarks by Leo J. Gehrig, M.D., Deputy Surgeon
General, Public Health Service, reports, agendas, registration and accommodation forms,
opening address by Marion B. Folsom, former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and
Welfare, letter from Eric Northrup to Harriett Northrup
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Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Medical Women's International Association newspaper clippings
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1966-1967 |
Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Medical Women's International Association XIIth Congress, Melborne, Australia, February
14-20, 1970
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1970 |
Scope and Contents
Programs, agenda, reports, balance sheets, suggested rules of procedures at MWIA business
meetings, agendas, reports
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Box 3 |
Medical Women's International Association XIIth Congress, Melborne, Australia, February
14-20, 1970, Scientific Papers, "The Health of Women in Industry" plastic comb bound
volume
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1970 | |
Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Medical Women's International Association XIVth Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
October 18-24,1974
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1974 |
Scope and Contents
Program and supplement, report on family planning - supplement to proceedings
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Box 2 |
Genetics and Environmental Factors Which Affect Human Health, Proceedings, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, XIV Congress of Medical Women's International Association - M.W.I.A.
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October 13-18, 1974 | |
Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Medical Women's International Association, papers presented by members
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1958-1974 |
Scope and Contents
Includes "Family Planning in 1968 - A Basic Human Right" by Jessie Laird Brodie, M.D.
prepared for XI Congress of the Pan-American Medical Women's Alliance, October 12-18,
1968, "Disorders of Sexual Behavior in Hospitalized Children with Primary Tb Complex"
by Gilka Murillo de Guerra, M.D., "Charlataneria Medica - Los Curanderos" in Spanish,
"Pelvic Phlebography in Benign Uterine Tumors" by Emilia Solani de Hard, "A Look at
Medicine in Russia" by Alma D,. Morani, M.D., F.A.C.S, F.I.C.S. reprinted from Journal of the American Medical Women's Association, "Intestinal Parasitism - Report of an Interesting Case","Report: Care-Medico", "Pan
American Medical Women's Alliance 1947 - 1967" by Jessie Laird Brodie, M.D., "Bronchopulmonary
Malformations in Infancy" by Ana Amat, M.D., Bronchial Asthma in Infancy - Treatment
with Ethylene Disulfonate" by Victoria Prieto de Manrique, M.D.,"Family Planning"
by Aquilles J. Sobrero, M.D.
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Series V. Pan American Medical Women's Alliance
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Pan American Medical Women's Alliance meetings
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1967-1979 |
Scope and Contents
Includes information on X Congress, February 4-11, 1967 Lima, Peru, empty folder for
11th Congress, October 12-18, 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,correspondence and
schedule XVI Comgress, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, agenda September 24, 1973, bulletin for
XII Congress 5-12 September,1971, Mexico, D.F., bulletin and program for XIII Congress
22-26 September, 1973, San Francisco, California [Spanish], program XV Congress September
1-6, 1977, San Juan, Puerto Rico, "The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center,
the New Trend in Psychiatry" by Martha Brunner-Orne, M.D., single sheet on Weber-Christian
Syndrome by Rebeca Kuniyoshi, M.D.,"Bronchial Asthma in Infancy - Treatment with Ethylene
Disulfonate
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Pan American Medical Women's Alliance Newsletter
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1960-1962 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Instituto de Puericultera, Universidade do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, bound booklet
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1957 |
Series VI. American Medical Women's Association, Inc.
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Box 1 | Folder 32 |
American Medical Women's Association, Inc. correspondence
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1970-1971 |
Scope and Contents
Includes advertising discussions, organization profile, finances, Dr. Adelaide Ellsworth
Weston Fund
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Box 1 | Folder 33 |
American Medical Women's Association, Inc. correspondence - Harriett Northrup
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1969-1979 |
Scope and Contents
Includes duplicate certificate of membership in the American Women's Medical Association
for branch no.18 New York State, Women's Medical Society of New York State annual
meeting program from 1977 with notes written on back, copy of Women's Medical Society
of New York State membership certificate for Alice W. Williams, 2 photographs of plaque
"Given by the Women's Medical Society of New York State in memory of Dr. Lois J. Plummer
of Buffalo, N.Y.", reports, correspondence regarding archival records housing
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Box 1 | Folder 34 |
American Medical Women's Association, Inc. correspondence, memos, reports - Josephine
Renshaw, President
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1969-1970 |
Scope and Contents
Includes finances, minutes, reports, list of Executive Board officers 1970
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Box 1 | Folder 35 |
American Medical Women's Association, Inc. - Harriett Northrup, Treasurer files
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1969 |
Scope and Contents
Includes Archives Committee reports, Liaison Committee report, reports, delegate certification,
annual meeting schedules, correspondence, proposal, resolutions, press release, minutes,
Constitution and Bylaws amended December 1967, brochures, President's report 1969,
copy of finance newspaper clipping, memo, copies of "Tenth Anniversary Section - Looking
Backward", April 1956 and "Women's Medical Society of New York State - A Brief History"
by Isabella F. Borden, M.D., February 1955 from Journal of the American Medical Women's Association volume 10, number 2, February 1955, "New York Medical Archives in Upstate Area" by
Herbert Finch, Ph.D. from New York State Journal of Medicine
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Box 1 | Folder 36 |
American Medical Women's Association, Inc. audit
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1969 |
Box 1 | Folder 37 |
American Medical Women's Association, Inc. - Harriett Northrup, Treasurer files
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1970-1979 |
Scope and Contents
Includes agendas, minutes, account statements, disbursements, Resolutions 1960 - 1970,
What's Happening in the AMWA July - September 1978, volume VI, number 3, Women's Medical
Association of New York City newsletter, correspondence regarding travel agency arrangementsThe Woman Physician, American Medical Women's Asociation, Inc. Resolutions 1960 - 1970, correspondence,
newsletters
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Box 1 | Folder 38 |
American Medical Women's Association,Inc. credentials committee
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1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 39 |
American Medical Women's Association, Inc. pamphlets
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1940-1964 |
Scope and Contents
Includes association yearbook 1940, official program from 1961 annual meeting in Ohio,
Constitution and Bylaws adopted June 12, 1960, Constitution and Bylaws as amended
to October, 1964
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Box 1 | Folder 40 |
American Medical Women's Association, Inc. miscellaneous documents
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1960s-1970s |
Scope and Contents
Includes pamphlets, official programs from annual meetings 1965, 1966, 1969, and 1970,
resolutions, copies of magazine articles regarding 100th anniversary of Cornell University,
"Statistics - Women and Medical School Application and Acceptances", Sophia J. Kleegman
Professorship information, New Jersey Women's Association Branch 4, A.M.W.A. constitution
and bylaws, oversize reprinted letter from Ida S. Scudder, on behaaf of the General
Council of the Women's Missionary Medical College, to Lord Pentland, Governor of Madras
in 1918, pamphlet "The Second Dr. Scudder of Vellore", "Via Transfusions Na Infancia"
by Maria Piedade Calmon Cergne, brochure "Oral History Project on Women in Medicine",
pamphlet "Pioneer-Pacesetter-Innovator; The Story of the Medical College of Pennsylvania,
single page of bulletin on Edward G. Miner Library
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Box 1 | Folder 41 |
American Medical Women's Association, Inc. interim meeting, Chicago, Illinois
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1970 |
Scope and Contents
Includes Women's Medical Society of New York State Roster 1970 - 1972, agenda, appointments,
annual meeting tentative program, reports, emeritus membership, excerpt on Louise
Carpenter Gloeckner, M.D., vice president of the American Medical Association from
Journal of the American Medical Women's Association volume 24, number 9, nominations for 1970 Elizabeth Blackwell Medal, Janet M. Glasgow
Memorial Scholarship Fund, locales of interim and annual meetings 1958 - 1971, The
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. news releases,
blank questionnaire for promotion of women in policy-making positions, finances, membership
figures 1960 - 1970
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Box 1 | Folder 42 |
American Medical Women's Association, Inc. annual meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 43 |
American Medical Women's Association, Inc. Medical Woman of the Year press releases
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1961 |
Scope and Contents
Leona Baumgartner - New York State, Roberta Fenlon - Upper California, Thelma E. Frank
- Texas, Mildred G. Gregory - New Jersey, Nelle S. Noble - Iowa, Elizabeth A. McGrew
- Chicago, Dorothy M. Rogers - New Jersey, Esther H. Dale - Michigan, June Shafer
- Washington, D.C., Carol G. Pryor - Georgia, Janet G. Travell - New York State
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Box 2 |
Report of a Conference on Meeting Medical Manpower Needs - The Fuller Utilization
of the Woman Physician, Washington, D.C.
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January 12-13, 1968 | |
Scope and Contents
Sponsored by American Medical Women's Association, The President's Study Group on
Careers for Women, Women's Bureau, U.S> Department of Labor
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Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Report to the University of Illinois College of Medicine Committee on Admissions from
the Subcommittee on Women in Medicine
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1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
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1950, 1972 |
Scope and Contents
Includes pamphlet (1950) and article (1972)
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
American Medical Women's Association, Inc. folder and contents, A Symposium on Medicine
in the Next 50 Years, Cicago, Illinois
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Saturday, November 13, 1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Article clippings from Journal of the American Medical Women's Association
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1947-1952 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Journal of the American Medical Women's Association
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1951-1969 |
Scope and Contents
Volume 6, February 1951, Number 2
Volume 17, August 1962, Number VIII
Volume 21, October 1966, Mumber 10, M.W.I.A. Xth Congress
M.W.I.A. X Congress Supplement
Volume 22, Number 5, Pan American Medical Women's Alliance Xth Congress
Volume 24, June 1969, Number 6, Papers from AMWA annual meeting December 1968 and
papers presented at meeting of Branch 18 (New York State) February 1969
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Women in Medicine - Official Quarterly of American Medical Women's Association, Inc., Number 71
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January, 1941 |
Box 3 |
American Medical Women's Association Annual Reports
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1964 | |
Box 3 |
American Medical Women's Association Annual Reports
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1965 | |
Box 3 |
American Medical Women's Association Annual Reports
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1966 | |
Box 3 |
American Medical Women's Association Annual Reports
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1967 | |
Box 3 |
American Medical Women's Association Annual Reports
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1969 | |
Box 3 |
American Medical Women's Association Annual Reports
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1970 | |
Box 3 |
American Medical Women's Association Annual Reports
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1971 | |
Box 3 |
American Medical Women's Association Annual Reports
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1973 |