Long Island College Hospital collection
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The Long Island College Hospital was founded in 1858 and functioned as both a hospital and medical school. Its original building was located on the west side of Henry Street between Pacific and Amity Streets in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Cobble Hill. The Hospital later moved to 339 Hicks Street. The Long Island College Hospital collection spans the period 1861 to 1969 and contains publications and ephemera documenting the activities of the Hospital and its medical school, including annual reports, yearbooks, catalogs, newsletters, bulletins, programs, brochures, and pamphlets.
Historical Note
The Long Island College Hospital was founded in 1858 and functioned as both a hospital and medical school. Its original building was located on the west side of Henry Street between Pacific and Amity Streets in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Cobble Hill.
Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, as the Hospital acquired additional departments and facilities, it achieved several distinctions in the advancement of institutional medical care: in 1860, for example, the Hospital became the first in the United States to implement bedside teaching as an integral part of its medical curriculum. Later, the Hospital helped pioneer the early use of the stethoscope and anesthesia.
In 1931, the Hospital's medical school became independent of the Hospital and was incorporated as the Long Island College of Medicine. Later in 1950, the College became part of the State University of New York (SUNY), and in the ensuing years the College's campus was relocated to the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East Flatbush.
As of 2010, the College remains a unit of the SUNY Downstate Medical Center, though it continues to have a teaching affiliation with the Long Island College Hospital, now located at 339 Hicks Street.
Sources:
- Continuum Health Partners. "Long Island College Hospital." Accessed December 13, 2010. http://www.wehealny.org/patients/lich_description.html
- Long Island College Hospital. The Long Island College Hospital: Report for the Year Ended Dec. 31, 1921. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Long Island College Hospital, 1922.
- SUNY Downstate Medical Center. "About the College of Medicine." Accessed December 13, 2010. http://www.downstate.edu/college_of_medicine/about.html
Scope and Contents
The Long Island College Hospital collection spans the period 1861 to 1969 and contains publications and ephemera documenting the activities of the Hospital and its medical school. Items pertaining to the Hospital include annual reports and yearbooks; newsletters and bulletins; annual reports of the Guild of the Long Island College Hospital, a women's volunteer organization; and ephemeral items such as programs, brochures, and pamphlets. Items pertaining to the Hospital's medical school include catalogs, a yearbook, and alumni publications.
Annual reports and yearbooks of the Hospital span the years 1867 to 1871, 1918 to 1921, 1930, and 1963 to 1967. Included are lists of board members and hospital staff, departmental reports and statistics, reports of superintendents and treasurers, lists of endowments, and lists of benefactors, contributors, and subscribers.
Newsletters and bulletins span the periods 1919 to 1921 and 1961 to 1969, and include issues of the Hospital's various news publications, including the Long Island College Hospital Scope, The Long Island College Hospital Medical Center News, and the Hospital's monthly bulletin.
Annual reports of the Guild of the Long Island College Hospital are chiefly compiled in two bound volumes spanning the years 1899 to 1929, though there are two loose reports for the years 1930 and 1931. The reports include lists of board and committee members, reports of various officers and committees, member lists, listings of benefactors and donations, and certificates of incorporation and bylaws. Other items pertaining to the Guild include two membership lists dating from 1944 and 1947.
Additional ephemeral items pertaining to the Hospital date from the period 1863 to 1915, as well as the years 1958-1963, and include commencement programs, a brochure for the Hospital's centennial, anniversary ball and dinner programs and menus, and various informational pamphlets, circulars, and brochures.
Catalogs of the Hospital's medical school span the periods 1861 to 1916 and 1928 to 1929, and contain lists of board, committee, and council members; lists of faculty and staff members; information on student admission, registration, and fees; descriptions of facilities and curricula by department; and lists of graduates and matriculants. Additional items on the Hospital's medical school include one yearbook from 1929 and one bound volume containing a general alumni catalog for the year 1916, with a comprehensive alphabetical listing of graduates of the Long Island College Hospital by year. There is also a small number of items pertaining to the medical school after it had become independent of the Hospital and reorganized as the Long Island College of Medicine, including an annual report from 1940, and a bulletin from 1944.
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Open to researchers without restriction.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date (if known); Long Island College Hospital collection, ARC.139, Box and Folder number; Brooklyn Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Portions of this collection were the gift of the Long Island College Hospital, 1916 and 1929. Sources and dates of acquisition for the remaining items in the collection are unknown.
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Minimally processed to the collection level.
Finding aid authored by Nicholas Pavlik on December 13, 2010. Additional material added to the collection by John Zarrillo, February 2015.
