New Digital Collections are now online - The New-York Asylum for Lying-In Women Annual Reports, 1824-1899 and the Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New-York Annual Reports, 1932-1950

We've completed another round of digitization, this time focusing on two historic hospitals that played key roles in providing maternal health services in New York City.

Rosemary A. Stevens to present Heberden Society Lecture February 26, 5pm

Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, MPH DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, WCMC Institute for the History of Psychiatry, will present the Heberden society lecture onWednesday, February 26, 2014, at 5:00 pm.

Inventing the Veterans Administration, Who, How and Why? 1921-1924

Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 5:00 p.m. (Light refreshments at 4:45)

Uris Faculty Room (A-126)

Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue

New Digital Collections are now online - The Nursery and Child's Hospital Annual Reports, 1854-1909 and the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital Annual Reports, 1910-1934

Nursery and Child's Hospital Digital Collections

We've completed the digitization of the annual reports of two more antecedent institutions of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center that are now

New York Hospital's 19th Century Meteorological Reports

From the polar vortex, to Arctic blasts, to thundersnow, New York City weather has given most of us some meteorological firsts in the last few years. Though the study of such phenomena dates back to ancient India (circa 500 AD), the formation of weather observation networks that systematically collected weather data was not established until 1654 in Italy.

Cornell graduate, civil rights activist, sociologist, educator, diplomat, and former member of the Board of Governors of the Society of the New York Hospital - Jerome H. Holland, PhD (1916-1985)

As the Archives will be closed Monday, January 20, 2014 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we want to remember the life and contributions of Cornell University graduate Jerome Heartwood "Brud" Holland, PhD.

New digital collections are now online - annual reports of the Manhattan Maternity and Dispensary, 1905-1932 and the New York Infant Asylum, 1872-1908

Manhattan Maternity Digital Collections

"P-04929" The photograph shows the Manhattan Maternity and Dispensary building which was located at 327 E. 60th Street, between First and Second Avenues.

Happy New Year!

Nothing beats ringing in the New Year than joining in on a celebratory party to reflect on the year past and welcome in the new one. A quick perusal through the Medical Center Archives' photograph collections (much of it is now available online) affirms that faculty, staff, and students at the Hospital and Medical College over the years knew how to get their party on. To help get you into a festive mood, here are some shots of past students, faculty, staff, and yes, even the administration, making merry.