Please note that this finding aid is not complete.

Please note that this finding aid is not complete.

This collection contains an assortment of materials from the School of Nusing including meeting minutes, accreditation materials, course catalogs, and student yearbooks.  See series designations for more information.

The Health Administration Program (HAP) records include important documents relating to the management and organization of the program. Included in this collection are meeting minutes, committee reports, faculty c.v.’s, course descriptions, class photographs, and accreditation documents. With the exception of series 4 (publications) and series 5 (class photographs) this collection contains electronic records only.

The Institute for Biomedical Computing (IBC) was created in 1984 with the administrative unification of several independent computer laboratories at Washington University.  Two of these previously independent groups represented in this collection of records are the Biomedical Computer Laboratory (BCL) and the Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL).

This collection includes an assortment of campus publications from the Danforth Campus of Washington University.  No attempt has been made to collect all of the Danforth Campus publications because this effort would duplicate those of the Washington Univesity Archives.  However, the selected publications, many of which provide relevant information pertaining to the School of Medicine, have been kept at the Becker Archives for the convenience of researchers.

This collection contains six yearbooks from Barnes Hospital School of Nursing.  The yearbooks, which were called The Blue Band, range from 1958-1960.  Also included in the collection is the Bulletin of the School of Nursing for the years 1975 to 1988.  The bulletins provide a history of the school, objectives of the program, course descriptions, curriculum, program fees, and student expectations.  Of note in this collection is a 1982 bulletin of the Alumni Association that provides updates on students from each class.

This collection documents both Washington University’s Program in Occupational Therapy, and its predecessor, the St. Louis School of Occupational Therapy. This collection includes administrative records, student notebooks, information regarding scholarships, photographs, publications, and accreditation documents.

This collection includes items related to The Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. From early community attempts to raise funds for a Jewish hospital; to the hospital’s construction at sites on Delmar Boulevard (completed in 1902), and later, on Kingshighway Boulevard (completed in 1926); and continuing up to and beyond its merger with Barnes Hospital in 1996, the history of Jewish Hospital is documented in a variety of material formats. The collection includes hospital statistics; correspondence; scrapbooks; newspaper and magazine clippings; VHS and cassette tapes; photographs; artifacts; hospital publications; administrative records; and staff biographical files. Also included are the files of multiple subsidiary and associated hospital organizations.  Of note is a set of key organizational documents for Jewish Hospital covering the years 1878-1977 ( series 11, sub-series 1); three large scrapbooks documenting hospital events and occurrences of the years 1927-1958 (series 5); and the collection of hospital publications ( series 9, sub-series 3), which includes serial magazines and annual reports of the hospital. Also of interest are the partial contents of the Delmar Boulevard hospital building’s 1901 cornerstone _(series 2, sub-series 1)and a collection of files documenting the 1962 hepatitis outbreak at Jewish Hospital (series 2, sub-series 2)._

Three volumes of collected studies from Washington University's department of Bacteriology and Immunology, 1929-1948.