Columbia University Medical Center

Columbia University Medical Center

630 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032, United States
Archives & Special Collections in the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library collects, preserves, organizes, and makes available rare and unique materials documenting the history of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center along with the health sciences in general.

Collection Sampling

Leonard C. Harber papers, 1926 - 2011

Personal papers of Leonard Coleman Harbor, professor of dermatology at New York University and Columbia University, and served as chair of the Department of Dermatology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
Collection ID: M-0086

Dickinson W. Richards papers, 1916 - 1973

Personal papers of U.S. physician, Dickinson W. Richards (1895-1973), alumnus (M.A. 1922; M.D. 1923) and faculty member (1925-1973) of Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons. Richards served as Intern (1924) and Resident (1925-1927) at Presbyterian Hospital, with later positions there (1928-1961) and at Bellevue Hospital (1933-1961), and consulted for Merck & Co. Richards received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1956, along with André Cournand and Werner Forssmann for their work relating to heart catheterization.
Collection ID: M-0160

Anneliese Sitarz papers, 1950 - 2008

Personal papers of U.S. pediatrician Annaliese Lotte Sitarz, an alumna (M.D. 1950) and faculty member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. She had a distinguished career in pediatric oncology with much of her clinical work based at Babies Hospital, later known as New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, while also consulting at Overlook and Harlem Hospitals. She was a founding investigator of the Children’s Cancer Study Group, a cooperative group established by the National Institutes of Health to study childhood cancers. She was first appointed to the Department of Pediatrics in the College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1957 and received tenure as Assistant Professor in 1973.
Collection ID: M-0170

Francis Huber papers, 1897-1932

Letters, documents, and bookplates largely relating to gifts pediatrician Francis Huber made to various institutions.
Collection ID: M-0098

William Jarvie Society records, 1947 - 2005

Meeting minutes, correspondence (1947-1974) and one newsletter (2005) created by the William Jarvie Society, a student organization in the School of Dental and Oral Surgery--later known as the College of Dental Medicine.
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Patricia Hayes Keough photograph album, 1943-1946

Photograph album "The Way We Were, 1943-1946," documenting Patricia Hayes Keough's nursing education at the Bryn Mawr College Summer School of Nursing and the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing (later the Columbia University School of Nursing).
Collection ID: M-109

Edward Dowdall medical illustrations, 1877

Nine watercolors of human anatomy depicting limbs afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis by artist Edward Dowdall.
Collection ID: M-0053

L. Emmett Holt patient records, 1901-1923

Records of about 200 pediatric cases seen by pediatritian L. Emmett Holt, 1901-1923, largely in New York City and its surrounding suburbs, although with a few out-of-town cases.
Collection ID: M-0095

Benjamin Howe ledger, 1811-1822

Financial accounts of Benjamin Howe, physician of Whitefield, Maine.
Collection ID: M-0097

Michael Merson collection on the global AIDS response, 1981-2019, bulk 1986-2005

Material created and collected by Michael Merson, documenting his leadership at the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS (GPA). The bulk consists of copies of WHO correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, speeches, press releases, publications and other printed material, in addition to interview transcripts and sound recordings conducted by Merson for the use in book, The AIDS pandemic: searching for a global response (2018), co-authored with Stephen Inrig.
Collection ID: M-0232