This week I processed a small collection of materials related to the Navajo Cornell Field Health Project.

Just a few days ago, as I turned on my home computer, accessed the internet and glanced at my Yahoo home page, I noticed that one of the news stories flashing across the Yahoo site dealt with the Bloomingdale Asylum. The Asylum, named after the area of upper Manhattan formerly known as Bloomingdale, once operated where Columbia University now stands. Established by New York Hospital in the early 19th century to care for the mentally ill, the records of the asylum now live here in the Medical Center Archives.

I am currently processing the papers of Dr. Harry Gold, a former New York Hospital (now NewYork-Presbyterian) cardiologist and Cornell University Medical College (now Weill Cornell Medical College) faculty member. As a pioneer in the use of digitalis glycosides for the treatment of cardiac failure, Dr. Gold conducted numerous studies while working out of cardiac clinics at New York Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, and the Hospital for Joint Diseases. While doing so, Dr.

Though we're officially a week away from the start of summer, 100 degree days suggest it's already here. While browsing the Archives' photo collection recently, I came across a remarkably appropriate image - a photograph of medical center students relaxing on a roof deck taken sometime during the 1970s according to the photo's record. Looks like my deck on a sunny afternoon!

In honor of the Class of 2011 graduation ceremonies, we've chosen to highlight a selection of photographs taken at past graduations now housed at the Medical Center Archives. Among the Archives' 13,000 digitized images are dozens of graduation shots. Enjoy!

If you're a former graduate of the Medical College or the Graduate School of Medical Sciences and would like to see your class photograph on this blog, send us an email at email-archives@med.cornell.edu. We'll post if we have them!

The Medical Center Archives collects the personal papers of faculty, staff, and students associated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College. Our goal here at the Medical Center Archives is to help facilitate research by making our collections available to the public. Over the past several months, Archives staff has been busy processing collections of personal papers.

We've recently completed several collections:

The Carl A. Berntsen Papers

The May G. Wilson Papers

The Alan Van Poznak Papers

Sixty-seven years ago this month, the Ninth General Hospital (an image of which was featured recently as a "Treasure of the Week") suffered through a massive monsoon while stationed on Goodenough Island off the southeastern coast of New Guinea. The Ninth General Hospital, a medical unit staffed primarily by New York Hospital and Cornell Medical College physicians and nurses, served in the South Pacific from 1943 through 1945. Archives staff recently processed the Records of the Ninth General Hospital and are eager to share its story.

Christmas Greetings from Ninth General Hospital, Goodenough Island, 1943. This hospital was operated by members of New York Hospital and Cornell University Medical College.

The second Heberden Society Lecture of the 2010-2011 academic year will be delivered by Robert C. Abrams, M.D. at 5 p.m. on Thursday, January 27, 2011, in the Uris Faculty Room (A-126) of Weill Cornell Medical College at 1300 York Ave. The title of the lecture will be "Late Life Depression and the Death of Queen Victoria."

Dr. Abrams is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Attending Psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.