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.

We are pleased to report that the image database migration project is now complete. 12,898 images are available to our internal users via the Institutional Database.

We've just finished up the digitization of institutional

Jacalyn Duffin, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FRSC, Professor and Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, will present the Heberden Society Lecture onTuesday, December 10, 2013, at 5:00 p.m.

Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World

Tuesday, December 10, 2013. 5:00 p.m. (light refreshments at 4:45)

Uris Faculty Room (A-126)

Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue

The Archives will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday, Thursday, November 28th and Friday the 29th. We'll reopen on Monday, December 2, 2013.

Here are images of Hospital Nutrition Department staff preparing Thanksgiving pies, to be served at the Hospital in November 1965, and baking cakes in 1968.

We wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

We are getting close to our goal of getting our images into our two new image databases. This week images of group faculty and residents dated after 1990 were added to the Institutional Database.

This week images from Louise Zabriskie collection were uploaded. In addition, images from the Samaritan yearbook were added. Above is a student nurse from the Zabriskie collection.

MEDICAL CENTER ARCHIVES UNVEILS DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

The Medical Center Archives has launched a new Digital Collections page on its website.

New Image Databases

This week images from various personal papers collections were uploaded.