Overview of the Collection
SUNY Upstate Medical University766 Irving AvenueSyracuse, NY 13210
Onondaga County Health Department Auxiliary
The Onondaga County Health Department Auxiliary Collection
1916-1996
26.97 linear feet
This collection contains the papers of
the Onondaga County Health Department Auxiliary, which was previously the auxiliary to
the A.C. Silverman Public Health Hospital. It has five series: Albums, Photographs,
Subject Files, Scrapbooks, and Administration.
2018.0002
Collection materials are in English.
Historical Note
The auxiliary to the Onondaga County Health Department grew out of the auxiliary to the
A.C. Silverman Public Health Hospital, which was previously known as the Syracuse City
Hospital. Genevieve Clifford Fahey was an administrator for City Hospital, and she made
the decision to form an auxiliary to the hospital because of its transition from
focusing on communicable diseases to general hospital care. On April 23, 1958, she
invited 21 women to discuss the possibility of an auxiliary, and this group became the
first board to the auxiliary with the first president being Mildred Price Brewster. By
June 6, 1958, 82 women signed the charter for the organization. One source of income for
the auxiliary was the gift shop in the hospital, which opened in 1960 and was chaired by
Mrs. Charles Gleazer. After changing from the City Hospital Auxiliary to the Silverman
Hospital Auxiliary, the auxiliary focused on helping the OT department. At the time of
the closing of the Silverman hospital, the materials and activities were transferred,
and the organization became the auxiliary to the Onondaga County Health Department.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of the Onondaga County Health Department Auxiliary,
which was previously the auxiliary to the A.C. Silverman Public Health Hospital. There
are five series in this collection.
Albums: these ledgers contain newspaper clippings with contemporary subject indexes from
the 1950s to 1990s with two folders of reports, booklets, newsletters, and conference
programs from local organizations.
Photographs: this series primarily consists of photograph prints and negatives of the
Syracuse Health Demonstration and public health nursing in addition to related annual
reports, notes, circulars, correspondence, brochures, and newspaper clippings from the
1920s to 1970s.
Subject Files: these materials include a folder of newspaper clippings, publications,
amendments, reports, correspondence, brochures, and photographs on the history of the
City Health Department from the 1950s to 1990s.
Scrapbooks: this series contains three scrapbooks from the 1930s to 1970s created by the
auxiliary to City Hospital, which was later the auxiliary to the A.C. Silverman Public
Health Hospital.
Administration: these papers document the administrative activities of the auxiliary in
the 1960s and 1970s.
Arrangement of the Collection
The Onondaga County Health Department Auxiliary Collection has been arranged into five series.
Separated Material
The following book was removed to the rare books collection: Richard, Frank E. Historical Atlas of New York State. Phoenix, NY: Frank E.
Richards, 1941.
Subject and Genre Headings
Communicable diseases
Hospitals
Nursing
Onondaga County (N.Y.)
Public health
Syracuse (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Use Restrictions
Written permission must be obtained from the Archives and Special Collections of the SUNY Upstate
Health Sciences Library and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations,
excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
The Onondaga County Health Department Auxiliary Collection, Archives and Special Collections in the Health Sciences Library,
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Acquisition Information
Gift of Jean Smiley, 2018.
Inventory
Albums
Newspaper clippings album with correspondence, resolutions, and
photographs, including topics: aged and elderly, animals, Christmas seals, city
hospital, diseases, fluoridation, food, housing, iron lung, march of dimes,
polio, regulation, and Syracuse health commissioner.
1939
1949-1954
1963
1971
Oversize Box 4
Newspaper clippings album with topics: administration, ambulance
service, abitriaries [obituaries], blood bank, cancer, city hospital,
communicable diseases, dental health, fluoridation, heart disease, hospital
affairs, maternal health, miscellany, medical school, mental health, nursing,
people, polio vaccine, poliomyelitis, rabies, rehabilitation, sanitation,
tuberculosis, voluntary agencies, voluntary services, welfare.
1955-1956
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: administration, alcohol, cancer,
child health, communicable diseases, dental health, heart disease, hospitals,
influenza, mental health, milk, miscellany, obituaries, people, poison central,
polio, sanatorium, sanitation, tuberculosis, voluntary programs.
1957
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: administration, alcoholism,
blood bank, cancer, cerebral palsy, communicable diseases, health association,
heart disease, hospitals, maternal health, mental health, miscellany,
nephrosis, nursing, obituaries, people, polio, safety, sanitation, voluntary
agencies.
1958
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: alcoholism, ambulance service,
blood bank, cancer society, cerebral palsy, Christmas seals, communicable
diseases, dental health, eye bank, food, health council, heart association,
heart surgery, hospitals, housing, loan closet, march of dimes, meals on
wheels, medical affairs, medical center, mental health, miscellany, municipal
affairs, narcotism, nursing, obituaries, people, planned parenthood, politics,
radiation, rehabilitation, safety, sanitation, sanatorium, voluntary agencies,
water.
1959
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: administration, the aged,
ambulance, blood bank, communicable diseases, the coroner, county affairs, the
census, cancer control, cerebral palsy, dental health, drugs, easter seals,
food, heart surgery, hospitals, housing, hearing, the handicapped, insurance,
mental health, mothers and babies, milk, medical school, medical affairs, march
of dimes, miscellany, nursing affairs, nutrition, obituaries, pigeons, people,
rabies and dogs, red cross, radiation, rehabilitation, safety, sewers,
sanitation, sight saving, voluntary agencies, water, welfare.
1960
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: alcoholism, ambulances, the
aged, air, blood bank, birds, beasts and rabies, civic affairs, cancer society,
cerebral palsy, dental health, easter seals, hospitals, housing, health
council, health conference, heart association, infections, insurance, mothers
and babies, mental health, medical center, milk, medical affairs, meals on
wheels, march of dimes, miscellany, nursing homes, nursing, obituaries,
politics, people, rehabilitation, restaurants, radiation, red cross, safety,
sight saving, sewers, swimming pools, tuberculosis association, voluntary
agencies, water, weeds.
1961
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: alcoholism, ambulances,
administration, air, babies, blood, birds and beasts and rabies, cerebral
palsy, Christmas seals, cancer, civic affairs, eyes, ears, foods, heart,
housing, hospitals, health conference, infections, insurance, march of dimes,
mental health, medical center, medical affairs, medical care, miscellany,
nursing, obituaries, polio, politics, people, the retarded, safety, sewers,
teeth, water.
1962
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: air, alcoholism, babies, birds,
blood bank, cancer, cerebral palsy, civics, chest council, dietetics, dogs and
rabies, elections, food, handicapped, health association, hearing, history,
heart, home care, hospitals, housing, infections, insurance, march of dimes,
medical school, medicine, mental health, milk, miscellany, mothers, narcotism,
nursing, nursing homes, obituaries, people, poisons, radiation, red cross,
registry, retarded, safety, sclerosis, schools, smoking, teeth, vision, wastes,
water.
1963
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: administration, aged crippled,
air, ambulances, animals and rabies, birds, birth control, the blind, blood
bank, cancer, city hospital, civil defense, civic affairs, community hospital,
county hospital, crouse irving hospital, the deaf, dental health, dietetics,
the dispensary, the election, epilepsy, fluoridation, food, general hospital,
good shepherd hospital, health association, heart diseases, hospitals, housing,
infections, information service, insurance, march of dimes, meals on wheels,
medical center, medicine, memorial hospital, mental health, midtown hospital,
miscellaneous, mothers and babies, nursing, nursing homes, obituaries, people,
poisons, rats, red cross, rehabilitation, rubbish, safety, saint joseph’s
hospital, saint mary’s, sewage, smoking, swimming pools, university hospital,
voluntary agencies, water, work shops.
1964
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: air, alcoholism, babies, birds
and beasts, birth control, blood, cancer, cancer crusade, county health unit,
cripples, drought, drugs and druggists, election 1965, fluoridation, food, fund
drives, head start, health careers, health center, health mental, health
planning, hearing, heart, home care, hospitals (city, community, county,
crouse-irving, good shepherd, memorial, st. joseph’s, st. mary’s, state,
university, veterans), housing, infections, insurance, march of dimes, medical
affairs, medical center, medicare, mothers, nursing, nursing homes, nutrition,
obituaries, people, planned parenthood, retarded, rubbish, safety, sewers,
swimming pools, smoking, tuberculosis, vision, water, dirty water, pure water
vote, water strike, water supply, miscellaneous.
1965
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: air control, alcoholism,
ambulances, babies and mothers, birth control, blood, cancer, cerebral palsy,
civil affairs, county health unit, dental health, drugs, fund drives,
handicapped, health aides, heart, hospitals (city, community, crouse irving,
medical center, memorial, psychiatric, st. josephs, st. marys, university,
veterans), infections, Medicaid, medical affairs, medicare, mental health,
miscellany, nursing, nursing homes, obituaries, rabies, rubbish and vermin,
sewers, smoking, vision, water supply and dirty water.
1966
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: accidents, air, alcohol,
ambulance, blood bank, Baldwinsville center, capital program, careers, children
retarded and disturbed, department of county health, dental health, druggists,
election, food, garbage, health center, hospitals (saint mary’s, city, crouse
irving, people’s, veterans’, saint joseph’s, community, university),
infections, insurance, meals on wheels, medicaid, medical affairs, medical
center, medicare, mental health, miscellany, nursing, nursing homes,
obituaries, people, pests, plumbing, sewer, sex, smoking, speech, suicide,
vision, voluntary agencies, water supply, dirty water, women.
1967
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: administration, air, alcoholism,
ambulance, babies, birth control, city – silverman, codes, community, crouse
irving memorial, deaths, dental health, dirty water, elections, food, fund
drive, hearing, health, hospitals, infections, Medicaid, medical affairs,
medical center, medicare, mental health, miscellaneous, neighborhood center,
north area, nursing, nursing homes, Onondaga lake, people, planning, poison
control, saint joseph’s, saint mary’s, safety, schools, sewers, sight,
Skaneateles lake, smoking, van duyn, vermin, veterans, village center, water
supply, women, young mothers.
1968
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album.
1969-1978
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album.
1979-1984
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: AIDS/HIV, allied signal inc.,
Onondaga lake, pollution, sewers, sanitation, water, family planning,
ambulances, communicable diseases, animal disease control, toxic fumes, toxic
waste, smoking/cancer, emergency medical services, education of handicapped,
hospitals, Onondaga county health department news, nursing, safety, homeless,
dental health.
1985
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: AIDS/HIV, communicable diseases,
asbestos, radon, cancer/smoking, toxic fumes, toxic waste, solid waste,
pollution, allied signal inc., sewers and sewage treatment, Onondaga lake,
water, workplace, dental health, animal disease control, emergency medical
services, ambulances, children, family planning and sex education, nutrition,
housing, safety, consumer issues, hospitals, medical affairs, people,
miscellaneous.
1986
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: AIDS/HIV, hepatitis,
communicable diseases, cancer, asbestos, radon, smoking, toxic fumes, waste
disposal, toxic waste, Onondaga lake and allied signal inc., water, sewage
treatment, office of environment, women and children, dental health, hearing,
poison control, animal disease control, safety, housing, medical affairs,
miscellaneous.
1987
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: AIDS/HIV, communicable diseases,
hepatitis, smoking, cancer, radon, asbestos, children, women, nutrition, dental
health, animal disease control, people, medical examiner, safety, hospitals,
toxic fumes, ambulances, toxic waste, solid waste, sewage, water,
miscellaneous.
1988
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: AIDS/HIV, hepatitis, abortion,
smoking, alcohol, children, medical affairs, communicable diseases, radon,
asbestos, clinics, medical examiner, housing, EMS, dental health, animal
disease control, safety, workplace, solid waste, PCBs, Onondaga, miscellaneous,
sewage, pollution.
1989
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: AIDS/HIV, clinics, hepatitis,
communicable diseases, county, emergency services, incinerator, infant
mortality, jail health, laboratory, mosquitos, environment, maternal and child
health, midwives.
1990
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: abortion, AIDS/HIV, clinics,
tuberculosis, county, education of handicapped, emergency services,
environment, infant mortality, incinerator, jail health, laboratory, midwives,
maternal and child health, mosquitoes, miscellaneous, rabies and animal
disease.
1991
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: AIDS/HIV, clinics, county,
education of handicapped, emergency services, environment, incinerator, infant
mortality, jail health, managed care, maternal and child health, miscellaneous,
meningococcal meningitis, communicable diseases, poor, mosquitoes, rabies and
animal disease, state.
1992
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: clinics, commissioner,
communicable diseases, county, education of handicapped, environment,
incinerator, infant mortality, jail health, maternal and child health, managed
care, miscellaneous, rabies and animal disease.
1995
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album with topics: AIDS/HIV, commissioner, clinics,
communicable diseases, county, health, incinerator, infant mortality, jail
health, lead poisoning, fluoride, meningococcal meningitis, miscellaneous,
rabies and animal disease, smoking.
1996
Oversize shelving
Newspaper clippings album on medical examiner’s office.
1987-1995
Oversize shelving
Reports, booklets, newsletters, and conference programs from local
organizations filed with the newspaper clippings albums, including the New York
State Association of Milk Sanitarians and Cornell Department of Dairy and Food
Science, the Guild of the General Hospital of Syracuse, Onondaga Council on
Alcoholism, New York State Public Health Association, Symposium on Chronic
Respiratory Diseases, Crouse-Irving Bulletin, Visiting Nurse Association,
American Cancer Society, Syracuse Annual Health Conference, Syracuse Memorial
Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Heart Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga
Health Association, Syracuse Regional Health Conference, Christmas Seal Agency,
Central New York Regional Health Conference, Hospital of the Good Shepherd
Rehabilitation Center, Onondaga Chapter Civil Service News, Rheumatic Fever
Foundation, General Hospital of Syracuse School of Nursing, Mental Health
Association of Onondaga County.
1949
1954
1957-1967
Box 1
2 folders
Photographs
Syracuse Health Demonstration photographs.
1923-1931
Box 1
Public Health Nursing photographs and annual reports from the Syracuse
City Department of Health and Onondaga County Public Health Nursing
Service.
c. 1927
1937
1940-1957
Box 1
Public Health Nursing photographs and annual reports from the Syracuse
City Department of Health and Onondaga County Public Health Nursing
Service.
1958-1967
Box 1
Miscellaneous Historical Materials and Photographs from the Syracuse
Health Department, Silverman Hospital, and the Auxiliary. With notes,
circulars, photograph labels, photograph prints of the hospital and staff,
correspondence, brochures, and newspaper clippings.
1916
1948
1964
1973-1974
Box 1
Public Health Nursing negatives.
undated
Box 2
Subject Files
History of the City Health Department file with newspaper clippings,
publications, amendments, reports, correspondence, brochures, and photographs
of nursing demonstrations in Jordan.
1954
1956
1963
1965-1969
1973
1977
1984
1989-1990
undated
Box 2
Report of and services rendered by the department of
health.
1951
c. 1952
1978
Box 2
Photocopies of newspaper clippings from the 1880s and 1890s on public
welfare and the Syracuse Department of Health from the Onondaga Historical
Association.
undated
Box 2
Scrapbooks
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, photographs, ephemera, event
invitations and programs, handbooks, board meeting minutes, committee lists and
reports, organization charts, budgets, and annual reports from the auxiliary to
Silverman Hospital.
1968-1977
Oversize Box 4
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, photographs, event invitations and
programs, staff manuals, meeting minutes, by laws, newsletters, and reports
from the auxiliary to Silverman Hospital.
1956-1969
1971-1972
1978
Oversize Box 5
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, event
invitations and programs on polio, iron lungs, and the March of Dimes from
Genevieve Fahey.
1937
1939-1944
1948-1953
1974
Oversize Box 5
Administration
Auxiliary constitution and by laws, reports, membership lists, meeting
minutes, event invitations and programs, resolutions, correspondence, and
newsletters.
1960-1964
Boxes 2 and 3
2 folders
Auxiliary constitution and by laws, photographs, membership lists,
reports, newspaper clippings, correspondence, meeting minutes, and event
invitations and programs.
1965-1967
Box 3
Auxiliary constitution and by laws, reports, event invitations and
programs, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, membership lists, and
photographs.
1968-1969
Box 3
Auxiliary constitution and by laws, reduced fee applications, reports,
meeting minutes, event invitations and programs, newspaper clippings,
membership lists, correspondence, press releases, and certificate of not for
profit incorporation.
1975-1977
Box 3
2 folders