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Nursing Collections at the Medical Center Archives
on June 25, 2014

The photograph above shows a nursing student receiving clinical training from a nurse at New York Hospital (now NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital) in 1967. Nurses have always been an integral part of medical care...
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Medicine as a career for women?
on June 4, 2014

This pamphlet comes from the Ruth Morris Bakwin, MD Papers. Ruth Bakwin (1898-1985), a 1923 graduate of Cornell University Medical College (now Weill Cornell Medical College) was very interested in the history...
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New York Hospital and the Civil War
on February 1, 2013

At the dawn of the Civil War, New York Hospital was located at its first site on Broadway between Duane and Worth Streets. From April 1861-February 1862, New York Hospital had an agreement with the New York...
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Happy 50th Anniversary: Samuel J. Wood Library
on November 16, 2012

The Samuel J. Wood Library and Research Building was dedicated on October 17, 1962. The new building included research laboratory space, new lobby for the medical college, and the medical college library....
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Celebrating the contributions of Philip and Helen Reichert
on November 10, 2011

Dr. Philip Reichert (Cornell University Medical College Class of 1923) and his wife Helen "Happy" Faith Keane Reichert (Cornell University Class of 1925) were long-time benefactors of Weill Cornell Medical...
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