Call Number: 1985.005
Extent: 4.17 Linear feet, in ten manuscript boxes.
The Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital was established in 1868 by prominent Brooklyn residents as a philanthropic clinic, and opened on April 20th, 1869. It closed its doors in 1976. The Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital records contain administrative and financial documents reflecting various aspects of the Hospital’s operations. Items include minutes of the Board of Directors and its committees, including the Executive, Plans, and Building Committees; annual reports and treasurer and superintendent’s reports; and minutes of the Board of Surgeons and its subsidiary committees, including the Ophthalmic Committee and the Committee on Infections. Additional items include a medical manual and a history of the Hospital, titled A Hospital’s First Century, written by Board member Harry W. Baehr to commemorate the Hospital’s centennial.
Names:
- Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital (New York, N.Y.). Board of Directors. Building Commmittee
- Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital (New York, N.Y.). Board of Directors. Executive Commmittee
- Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital (New York, N.Y.). Board of Directors. Plans Commmittee
- Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital (New York, N.Y.). Board of Directors
- Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital (New York, N.Y.). Board of Surgeons. Committee on Infections
- Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital (New York, N.Y.). Board of Surgeons. Ophthalmic Committee
- Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital (New York, N.Y.). Board of Surgeons
- Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital (New York, N.Y.). Medical Board.
- Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Ear — Surgery — New York (State) — Kings County
- Eye — Surgery — New York (State) — Kings County
- Hospitals — Finance
- Hospitals — Medical staff — New York (State) — Kings County
- Hospitals, Ophthalmic and aural — New York (State) — Kings County
- Hospitals, Ophthalmic and aural — New York (State) — Kings County — Administration
- Hospitals, Ophthalmic and aural — New York (State) — Kings County — Employees
- Medical care — New York (State) — Kings County
- Medicine — Practice — New York (State) — Kings County
- Real property — New York (State) — Kings County
- Specialty hospitals — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Annual reports
- Correspondence
- Employees’ manuals
- Minutes
- Reports
- Resolutions (administrative records)
- Volumes (documents by form)