Joseph Blinder Medical Notebooks and Notes
name: label: Creator
content: Hirschkovitz, Jacob
label: Creator
content: Blinder, Joseph, 1884-1973
label: Names
content: New York University
topic: label: Topic
content: Medicine
label: Topic
content: Medical colleges
label: Topic
content: Medical education
label: Topic
content: Physicians
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Harold S. and Theodor J. Blinder on October 7, 1974.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hirschkovitz, Jacob
label: Creator
content: Blinder, Joseph, 1884-1973
setName: label: See more items in
content: Joseph Blinder Medical Notebooks and Notes
abstract: label: Summary
content: Dr. Joseph Blinder was born in Russia in 1884 and immigrated to the United States in 1908. He attended Bellevue Medical College (New York University) and graduated in 1911. The collection consists of Blinder's bound medical notebooks, class notes, lab notes, and miscellaneous papers during his medical education at Bellevue from 1908-1911. The notebooks cover the following topics: pharmacology, anatomy, obstetrics, physiology, chemistry, and pathology. There are some loose handouts in the notebooks from professors Dr. Brooks and Dr. Smith.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Dr. Joseph Blinder was born in Russia in 1884 and immigrated to the United States in 1908. He attended Bellevue Medical College (New York University) and graduated in 1911. He established a family medical practice in 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, which he continued for 48 years, except for an interruption for U.S. Army service during World War I.

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This information was gathered from a letter written by Dr. Blinder's son, Dr. Ted Blinder, that was given to the Smithsonian when he inquired about donating the collection in 1973.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Cubic foot (3 boxes, 1 map folder)
unitdate: label: Date
content: Circa 1908-circa 1911
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Transferred to the Archives Center in 2003 by the Division of Science, Medicine and Society, now known as the Division of Medicine and Science.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0831
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Notebooks
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by unknown staff member, June, 2003; revised by Allyssa Tidwell (intern), July, 2011; supervised by Alison Oswald, archivist.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Notebooks -- 1900-1950
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of Blinder's bound medical notebooks, class notes, lab notes, and miscellaneous papers from his medical studies at Bellevue College, New York University (1908-1911). In one instance, a notebook was written by another student, Jacob Hirschkowitz. Most of the notebooks contain drawings as well as loose handouts from professors, Dr. Brooks and Dr. Smith. The notebooks cover the following topics: pharmacology, anatomy, obstetrics, physiology, chemistry, and pathology. The notebook in Box 1, Folder 7, is fragile.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials in the Division of Medicine and Science, National Museum of American History

Artifacts from Dr. Joseph Blinder's office, including objects and furnishings (Accession #309903).