Guide to the Women's Medical Society of New York State Records,
1907-1972

Collection Number: 2609

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
P. Stevens, B. Shepherd, K. Jacklin
Date completed:
March 1976
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, August 2002

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Women's Medical Society of New York State records, 1907-1972.
Collection Number:
2609
Creator:
Women's Medical Society of New York State.
Quantity:
2 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, newsletters, circular letters, minutes, reports, financial accounts, membership lists, a register, a scrapbook, a record book, clippings, photographs, and manuscript and printed miscellany.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Women's Medical Society of New York State.
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. Medical Education Committee.

Subjects:
Medicine--Education.
Religion.
Women in medicine.
Women missionaries.
Women physicians.

Places:
China.
India.
Korea.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Women's Medical Society of New York State records, #2609. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SERIES LIST

Series I. Correspondence Box 1
Series II. Other records Box 2
Series III. Manuscript and printed miscellany Box 3
Series IV. Minutes of meetings, along with some correspondence and general announcements and other reports, in a three-ring notebook Box 4
Series V. Wallin bequest Box 4
Series VI. Medical Women's International Association (Association internationale des femmes médecins) Xth Extraordinary General Assembly, Sandefjord, Norway, June 29-July, 1964 Box 4
Series VII. Medical Women's International Association (Association internationale des femmes médecins) Tenth Congress held at Rochester, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, July 9-15, 1966 Box 4
Series VIII. Miscellaneous Boxes 4-5
Series IX. American Medical Women's Alliance Box 5
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Series I. Correspondence
1928-1940
Box 1
1941-1946
Box 1
1947-1948
Box 1
1949-1950
Box 1
1951-1952
Box 1
1953-1954
Box 1
1955-1956
Box 1
1957-1966
Box 1
undated
Box 1
Series II. Other records
Women's Medical Society Register (names on loose sheets, ca. 100 pp.)
 Box 2
Women Physicians in Medical Directory of New York State in 1953 (ca. 90 pp.)
 Box 2
Alphabetical list of names of members with addresses and telephone numbers or dates of death (ca. 200 pp.)
 Box 2
Minutes of meetings, [Jan. 30, 1943-May 8, 1950]-1966
Box 2
Report given by Dr. Louise Beamis-Hood at 38th Annual Meeting, May 8, 1944
Box 2
Medical Education Committee Reports, 1947-1953
Box 2
Constitution, 1953
Box 2
Accounts and receipts, 1944-1956
Box 2
Miscellaneous, including ballots for officers and articles from Medical Women's Journal
Box 2
Volume ( 1907-1956 ) labelled "W.M.S. Register," including signatures of those attending various Society meetings and other membership lists
 Box 2
Series III. Manuscript and printed miscellany
American Women's Medical Association Yearbook, 1940 (pamphlet)
Box 3
Medical Education Committee Bank Books for W.M.S. of N.Y.S., Inc., 3 vols., 1937-1941, 1941-1947, 1947-1956
Box 3
*Scapbook, ca. 1911-1953
Box 3
Financial Record Book of Med. Educ. Comm., 1917-[July 12, 1918-Jan. 1, 1952] ; also mounted letters, 1926-1928
Box 3
Clippings--newspaper, magazine
 Box 3
Loose items removed from *scrapbook--include photos, reports, programs, brochures, notes, etc.
 Box 3
Pamphlets-- 1913 (membership roster), 1943-1954 , and n.d.
 Box 3
Newsletters-- 1948, 1953
Box 3
Series IV. Minutes of meetings, along with some correspondence and general announcements and other reports, in a three-ring notebook
Feb. 3, 1951
New York City
 Box 4
Apr. 30, 1951
Buffalo, New York
 Box 4
Oct. 6, 1951
Saratoga Springs, New York
 Box 4
May 12, 1952
New York City
 Box 4
Jan. 24, 1953
New York City
 Box 4
May 4, 1953
Buffalo, New York (missing)
 Box 4
Sept. 26, 1953
New York City
 Box 4
May 10, 1954
New York City
 Box 4
Oct. 9, 1954
Syracuse, New York
 Box 4
May 9, 1955
Buffalo, New York
 Box 4
Oct. 15, 1955
Syracuse, New York
 Box 4
May 6, 1956
New York City
 Box 4
Oct. 20, 1956
Buffalo, New York
 Box 4
Feb. 17, 1957
New York City
 Box 4
Oct. 19, 1957
Syracuse, New York
 Box 4
May 11, 1958
New York City
 Box 4
Oct. 18, 1958
Rochester, New York
 Box 4
May 10, 1959
Buffalo, New York
 Box 4
Oct. 18, 1959
New York City
 Box 4
Series V. Wallin bequest
Copy 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 )
Box 4
Correspondence relating to the settlement
 Box 4
Series VI. Medical Women's International Association (Association internationale des femmes médecins) Xth Extraordinary General Assembly, Sandefjord, Norway, June 29-July, 1964
Program
 Box 4
Statutes of the Medical Women's International Association (6 pp. mimeo)
 Box 4
Agenda for First and Second Meeting of the Council and General Assembly (1 p. mimeo)
 Box 4
MWIA financial reports for 1962 and 1963 (3 pp. mimeo)
 Box 4
Report of the Honorary Secretary (6 pp. mimeo)
 Box 4
Lectures (received until June 14th) (pamphlet, 7 pp.)
 Box 4
Percentage data for women physicians in various countries (1 p. mimeo)
 Box 4
Series VII. Medical Women's International Association (Association internationale des femmes médecins) Tenth Congress held at Rochester, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, July 9-15, 1966
Provisional program
 Box 4
Registration form
 Box 4
Accommodation form
 Box 4
Official program
 Box 4
Registrants
 Box 4
Geneva Day program
 Box 4
Banquet program
 Box 4
Program for the day in Niagara Falls, Ontario
 Box 4
Barbeque outing program
 Box 4
Opening address by Marion B. Folsom (former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) (12 pp. mimeo)
 Box 4
Report of the Honorary Secretary, Vera J. Peterson, M.D. (10 pp. mimeo)
 Box 4
Remarks by Leo J. Gehrig, M.D., Deputy Surgeon General, Public Health Service (5 pp. mimeo)
 Box 4
Agenda for meeting, Monday, July 11
 Box 4
Agenda for meeting, Wednesday, July 13
 Box 4
M.W.I.A. President's Report, Fe del Mundo, M.D. (2 copies, 2 pp. mimeo)
 Box 4
Constitution and by-laws as amended to Oct. 1964
Box 4
Annual reports, 1964-1967
Box 4
Program for Annual Meeting and Fiftieth Anniversary, Nov. 1965
Box 4
Program for Annual Meeting, Nov. 1966
Box 4
Abstracts of lectures, Saturday, Nov. 1966
Box 4
Small group discussions agenda
 Box 4
Work book
 Box 4
Newsclippings relating to the 10th Congress with note from "EVE" to Dr. Northrup
 Box 4
Series VIII. Miscellaneous
Journal for the Pan American Medical Women's Alliance VIII Congress, Aug. 1962
Box 4
Journal for the Medical Women's International Association, X Congress, 1966 (2 items)
 Box 4
Journal for the Pan American Medical Women's Alliance XI Congress, Feb. 1967
Box 4
"Some questions commonly asked Americans by people in the Soviet Union" (6 pp. mimeo)
 Box 4
"Things to do and see in the USSR--Moscow" (3 pp. mimeo)
 Box 4
"Things to do and see in the USSR--Leningrad" (2 pp. mimeo)
 Box 4
Medicine at Work, Nov. 1965 , special issue: "Women in Health"
Box 4
Newsletters, Kotagiri Medical Fellowship, Kotagiri, The Nilgris, South India, June 25 and Sept. 28, 1958 (2 pp. mimeo)
 Box 4
Two letters to Dr. Harriett Northrup from Dra. Itene Talamás, Mexico (2 mss. sheets)
 Box 4
"Presentation of the ninth Elizabeth Blackwell Award," July 10, 1966 , at Geneva, NY (pamphlet)
 Box 4
"The Elizabeth Blackwell Award" (pamphlet)
 Box 4
Roster, Women's Medical Society of New York State, 1970-1972 (pamphlet)
 Box 5
Papers relating to Medical Women's International Association XIIth Congress, Melborne, Australia, 1970 (pamphlets and mimeo papers)
 Box 5
Program, Pan American Medical Women's Alliance, 11th Congress, Oct. 1968 , Philadelphia
 Box 5
Program, Pan American Medical Women's Alliance, 12th Congress, Sept. 1970 , Mexico, D.F.
 Box 5
New Jersey Medical Women's Association, constitution and bylaws, revd. 1963 (6 pp. photocopy)
 Box 5
Series IX. American Medical Women's Alliance
Constitution and bylaws (adopted 1960 ) (pamphlet)
 Box 5
Official program, Nov.-Dec. 1961 , Shaker Heights, Ohio (pamphlet)
 Box 5
Financial report, Jan. 1970 (7 pp. photocopy)
Box 5
President's letter, incorporating AMA Liaison Committee, etc., 1970 (11 pp. photocopy)
 Box 5
Publications Committee minutes, Mar. 1970 (6 pp. photocopy)
 Box 5
Statement of assets and liabilities as of Aug. 31, 1970 (9 pp. photocopy)
 Box 5
Executive Board, 1970 (10 pp.)
 Box 5
1969 audit (9 pp. photocopy)
Box 5
Treasurer's report, 1970 (Dr. Harriett E. Northrup) (binder)
 Box 5
Interim Meeting, Chicago, 1970 (binder)
 Box 5
Annual Meeting, 1970 (binder)
 Box 5
Program, 55th Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1970
Box 5
Annual report, 55th Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1970
Box 5
Annual report, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Dec. 1971
Box 5
News releases for "Medical Women of the Year"
Leona Baumgartner, New York State
 Box 5
Roberta Fenlon, Upper California
 Box 5
Thelma E. Frank, Texas
 Box 5
Mildred G. Gregory, New Jersey
 Box 5
Nelle S. Noble, Iowa
 Box 5
Elizabeth A. McGrew, Chicago
 Box 5
Dorothy M. Rogers, New Jersey
 Box 5
Esther H. Dale, Michigan
 Box 5
June Shafer, Washington, D.C.
 Box 5
Carol G. Pryor, Georgia
 Box 5
Janet G. Travell, New York State
 Box 5
Copies of miscellaneous correspondence, etc., relating to various subjects, 1970-1971
Box 5