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Creator
United States Sanitary Commission
Call number
MssCol 18819
Physical description
26.22 linear feet (23 boxes, 87 volumes, 5 oversized folders)
Language
English
Preferred Citation
United States Sanitary Commission records. Condensed historical matter, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Sponsor
The conservation, arrangement, and description of the collection was made possible by generous funding from the Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust.
Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Access to materials
Request an in-person research appointment.Restrictions apply
Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online.

Condensed Historical Matter contains the printed publications, graphics, photographs, maps and artifacts brought together by the USSC during post-war arrangements of its records, including some materials from the Medical Committee Archives.

Scope and arrangement

Condensed Historical Matter contains the printed publications, graphics, photographs, maps and artifacts brought together by the USSC during post-war arrangements of its records, including some materials from the Medical Committee Archives.

The United States Sanitary Commission records. Condensed historical matter is arranged in ten series:

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Donated by the United States Sanitary Commission to the Astor Library, 1879

Revision History

Revised by Susan P. Waide to accommodate digital images (2024-04-10)

Processing information

Compiled by Susan P. Waide, Joseph Lapinski and Jane Rothstein, 2013

Revised December 2013

The conservation, arrangement, and description of the collection was made possible by generous funding from the Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust.

Two archival groupings, Photographs in Portfolio (see Photographs) and Surgical Photographs, Prints and Drawings, were listed under one container number by the USSC. Individual items were later numbered 1-115 by Library staff.

Those item numbers are now represented by identical folder numbers in boxes 14 and 15; for oversize items separated into box 16, the item numbers are noted in their descriptions.

The photographs housed in Box 16, folder 11 (United States Sanitary Commission Hospital Car) and folder 12 (Howard Ambulance salt prints and pamphlet), were added to the first group during the 2010-2013 USSC Processing Project; they were not given item numbers.

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328

Access restrictions

Surrogates must be used when available.

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