Rubin examining room 1911

Previous Posts

• ▼2024
  • ▼ July
    • Dazian Who? A “Familiar Names” Mystery, Part 2 
  • ▼ June
    • Dazian Who? A “Familiar Names” Mystery, Part 1 
  • ▼ May
    • CELEBRATING OUR NURSES
  • ▼ March
    • Celebrating Women's History Month
  • ▼ February
    • Familiar Names: A “Who’s Who” of Beth Israel Buildings 
  • ▼ January
    • New Exhibit: At the Heart of It All
    • Mount Sinai Health System Milestones for 2024
• ►2023
  • ► November
    • Recent Acquisitions - The William G. Hamilton, MD Papers
  • ► October
    • Now Online: Selected Beth Israel alphabetical files, including WWI letters
  • ► September
    • Now Online: Selected Beth Israel photographs
  • ► August
    • Now Online: Selected Beth Israel Board of Trustees minutes and annual reports
  • ► July
    • New Exhibit: Connection Workers
  • ► April
    • Trustee’s Diary Describes Early Years of St. Luke’s
    • The Mount Sinai Doctor: Charlotte Friend, PhD
  • ► March
    • The Roosevelt Hospital and its Connection to the Berry Plan.
  • ► February
    • Announcement: Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. MD Archives awarded METRO Digitization Project Grant
  • ► January
    • 2023 Milestones for Mount Sinai Health System
• ▼2022
  • ▼ December
    • Happy National Handwashing Awareness Week!
  • ▼ November
    • November Celebrates Mount Sinai West Founder James H. Roosevelt
  • ▼ October
    • What’s in a Start Date? Research on the Early History of the Phillips School of Nursing at Mount Sinai
  • ▼ September
    • New Exhibit - Pediatric Developments
    • Field Day with St. Luke's Staff
  • ▼ August
    • Helen Rehr: Trailblazer in Social Work
  • ▼ July
    • Building Beth Israel, Part 4: Silver Clinic, Perlman Place, and Fierman Hall(s)
  • ▼ June
    • The Mount Sinai Doctor: Isidor C. Rubin
    • Spring Traditions
  • ▼ May
    • Happy EMS Week! History of Emergency Medical Services at MSBI
  • ▼ April
    • Lillian K.P. Farrar, MD a Unique Woman at the Woman’s Hospital
  • ▼ March
    • History of Mount Sinai Brooklyn
    • The Influence of the 1863 Draft Riots on Jews' Hospital in New York's Sectarian Policy
  • ▼ January
    • The Ties that Bind: Relationships between Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University
    • Mount Sinai Beth Israel and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic – An Update
• ►2021
  • ► December
    • Disappearing Hospitals, Where did they go? The St. Luke’s Convalescent Hospital, Byram Woods, Greenwich, Conn.
  • ► November
    • Disappearing Hospitals, Where Did They Go?: Jewish Maternity Hospital and Doctors Hospital
    • Disappearing Hospitals, Where Did They Go? The Neustadter Home
  • ► October
    • Disappearing Hospitals, Where Did They Go? Woman's Hospital
    • Building Beth Israel, Part 3: “The Hospital of the Future” Shaped by its Present
  • ► September
    • Building Beth Israel, Part 2: Jefferson and Cherry
    • The Closing of the Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing, 1881-1971
  • ► August
    • Building Beth Israel, Part 1: Foundations
    • Mount Sinai's Missing Streets
    • Giving Birth to an Obstetrical Service
  • ► July
    • The Centenary of Radiation Oncology at Mount Sinai Morningside
  • ► June
    • A View from 100 Years Ago
    • Elise Galloway – A Roosevelt Nurse for Life
    • New Archives Catalog is Live
  • ► May
    • Announcement: Our New Catalog
  • ► April
    • Poor People Only
    • Spotlight on St. Luke’s Early Years: Admissions
  • ► March
    • Dr. Marie Nyswander, Early Leader in Methadone Maintenance Treatment
    • Doris Siegel, Pioneer Social Worker
    • Spotlight on the Early Years: Children at St. Luke’s Hospital
  • ► February
    • The 'Didn't Quite Fit' Milestones of 2021
  • ► January
    • Celebrating Two Notable Anniversaries in 2021
• ►2020
  • ► December
    • Roosevelt Hospital Ambulance Service – 1877 to 1972
  • ► November
    • Mount Sinai 100 Years Ago – The More Things Change…
    • Alexander Hamilton and How Mount Sinai Got to the Upper East Side
  • ► October
    • The Second Annual Founder’s Day Celebration
    • COVID-19, Web Archives, and Preserving History Online
  • ► September
    • A Mount Sinai Employee Murdered! - in 1937
  • ► August
    • Hortense Hirsch
    • Archives History in the Archival Materials
    • George Nicholas Papanicolau and the 'Pap' Smear
  • ► July
    • Tennis at Mount Sinai and Beyond
  • ► June
    • The Legacy of a St. Luke's School of Nursing Alumna
    • A Project Comes to Life: Part Two
    • Mount Sinai Beth Israel and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
  • ► May
    • Mount Sinai in a time of Epidemic – Typhus, 1915
    • Florence Nightingale's 200th!
  • ► April
    • A Project Comes to Life - Volunteering in the Aufses Archives
• ►2019
  • ► November
    • The Birth of Obstetrics at Mount Sinai West
  • ► October
    • The Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing and Seymour Phillips
  • ► April
    • Dr. Leila C. Knox, MSSL's first female Attending.
    • Remembering Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD: Pioneering Surgeon and Archives Supporter
  • ► February
    • Celebrating Black History Month
  • ► January
    • 100 Years Ago: World War I Ends for Mount Sinai Unit
• ►2018
  • ► July
    • “He is looking for notoriety”: Dr. M.J.B. Messemer, Celebrity Coroner
    • The Master at Work: Abraham Jacobi, MD Manuscripts Now Available in the Mount Sinai Digital Repository
  • ► June
    • Celebrating Robert Abbe, MD
    • "apparently dead but not actually so"
  • ► May
    • Dealing with 'Mrs. Dr. Jacobi'
    • May is the Mount Sinai Month for Buildings
  • ► April
    • Useless, but Interesting
    • From the Archives: Sophie Rabinoff, MD
  • ► March
    • The Col. Henry H. M. Lyle Collection of WWI Photos and Documents
  • ► February
    • 'The Match,' circa 1930
  • ► January
    • Celebrating with Cigars
• ►2017
  • ► December
    • The Care in Cardiac Care
  • ► September
    • Do You Know These Doctors? Help the Aufses Archives Identify These Beth Israel House Staff Photos
  • ► June
    • A Nursing Manual from 1957
  • ► May
    • Mount Sinai Archives Endowed as The Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. MD Archives
  • ► April
    • The Hospitals of the Mount Sinai Health System in the First World War
  • ► February
    • Report on the Mount Sinai West Archives Presentation
• ►2016
  • ► November
    • Robert Abbe, Surgical Pioneer
    • James H. Roosevelt and the founding of Roosevelt Hospital
  • ► October
    • Mount Sinai and Planned Parenthood
    • The 60th Anniversary of the Hiroshima Maidens Project
  • ► September
    • From the Archives: The Unexpected Legacy of Beth Israel's Small Hospitals
  • ► July
    • New Mount Sinai Archives Exhibit on Recent Acquisitions and Treasures
  • ► June
    • Waiting, Waiting, Waiting....
  • ► May
    • Memorial Day
    • From the Archives: I.W. Held, MD and Albert Einstein
    • Nurses Do It All!
  • ► April
    • New Archives Exhibit: "Hospital Trustees and the Making of New York City"
    • A Hospital Poem for Poetry Month
    • The Sporting Life
  • ► March
    • From the Archives: Charles H. Silver and the Presidents of the United States
    • Our New Website is Here!
    • Celebrating Sara Welt Kakels, MD on International Women's Day
  • ► February
    • PubMed Central - a Vibrant Source for History
    • Mount Sinai's Role in "Love Story"
  • ► January
    • New Archives Exhibit: The Hospitals of the Mount Sinai Health System
    • Music to Our Ears
• ►2015
  • ► December
    • Welcome to 2016!
    • Coming soon - a new Archives website!
  • ► November
    • Celibrate World Toilet Day
    • What's in a Name?
    • 50 Years Ago: Mount Sinai's First Deans are Installed
  • ► October
    • Irving J. Selikoff, MD, 1915-1992: A Centennial Celebration