Guide to the Young Women's Hospital Aid Records,
1912-1967

Collection Number: 2854

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
E. Hunn
Date completed:
May 1975
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, April 2004

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

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Young Women's Hospital Aid records, 1912-1967.
Collection Number:
2854
Creator:
Young Women's Hospital Aid (Ithaca, N.Y.).
Quantity:
.4 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Reports, minutes, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other records.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Records of the Young Women's Hospital Aid, a social organization whose prime function was fund raising for the Tompkins County Hospital. Officers and members of this group were usually prominent women of the Ithaca, New York area.
Language:
Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

Since its founding in 1913, the Young Women's Hospital Aid was a social organization whose prime function was fund raising for the Tompkins County Hospital. Officers and members of this group were usually prominent women of the Ithaca, New York area. The Aid assisted in the purchase of equipment for the hospital, and helped provide for the comfort and well-being of its patients. The organization also funded nursing scholarships with money raised through charity balls, fashion shows, and other social events. In 1964 the organization was dissolved and absorbed into the hospital's Department of Volunteer Services.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Collection includes reports of the Young Women's Hospital Aid Charity Ball, 1913-1963; minutes of the General Meeting, 1946-1963; correspondence, 1961-1964; mimeographed newsletters to members, 1961-1963; Special Committee minutes and reports, 1962-1963; and miscellaneous newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other records.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Young Women's Hospital Aid (Ithaca, N.Y.).
Tompkins County Hospital.

Subjects:
Charitable societies.
Charities, Medical.
Women in medicine.
Women volunteers in social service.

Places:
Ithaca (N.Y.)
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Young Women's Hospital Aid records, #2854. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1912-1967
History
 Box 1
1913, 1927-1933
Other Mss - Charity Ball Reports
 Box 1
1934-1940
Other Mss - Charity Ball Reports
 Box 1
1941-1949
Other Mss - Charity Ball Reports
 Box 1
1951-1959
Other Mss - Charity Ball Reports
 Box 1
1960-1963
Other Mss - Charity Ball Reports
 Box 1
1952-1964
Other Mss - Misc.
 Box 1
1946-1953
Minutes of General Meeting
 Box 2
1954-1963
Minutes of General Meeting
 Box 2
1957-1963
Minutes of Board Meetings
 Box 2
1961-1964
Correspondence
 Box 2
Item list of correspondence available in accession folder
1961-1963
Newsletters to Members, Mimeos
 Box 2
1960-1963
Reports
 Box 2
1962-1963
Reports and Minutes of "Special Committee"
 Box 2
1963
Dissolution Signatures
 Box 2