Medical Center Archives
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
1300 York Ave #34,
New York, NY 10021

tel.: (212) 746-6072;
fax: (212) 746-8279
e-mail: email-archives@med.cornell.edu
www: http://www.med.cornell.edu/archives/

Jim Gehrlich, head of archives; tel. (212) 746-6072
Elizabeth Shepard, assistant archivist; tel. (212) 746-6072

Medical Center Archives contains orginal records, including photographs, that document the history and present-day activities of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (formerly The New York Hospital), Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, and many other institutions that merged to form the current medical center. Records date from 1771 to the present and represent the many changes in health care and medical education in the United States. The archives also contains the records of the former Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing and the Women's Medical Association of New York City. Papers of individual physicians and nurses include those of Vincent du Vigneau (1955 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry), George N. Papanicolaou (developer of the 'Pap' smear), and Julia C. Stimson (Superintendent of the Army Nurses Corp).