Correspondence, court documents, pamphlets, prison diaries, parole records, oral history transcripts, interview transcripts, memoir drafts, poems, speeches, articles, awards, certificates, diplomas, photographs, clippings and digital video document the life and death of physician and political activist Alan Berkman (1945-2009), a physician from Middletown, New York who became radicalized as a medical student while attending Columbia University’s college of Physicians and Surgeons (MD 1971). He was later involved in two robberies. The first attributed to members of the May 19th Communist Organization and Black Liberation Army. His papers also contain records relating to the reinstatement of his medical license and career after his release from prison. He was Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health.

Personal papers of U.S. pediatrician Annaliese Lotte Sitarz, an alumna (M.D. 1950) and faculty member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. She had a distinguished career in pediatric oncology with much of her clinical work based at Babies Hospital, later known as New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, while also consulting at Overlook and Harlem Hospitals. She was a founding investigator of the Children’s Cancer Study Group, a cooperative group established by the National Institutes of Health to study childhood cancers. She was first appointed to the Department of Pediatrics in the College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1957 and received tenure as Assistant Professor in 1973.

Photograph album created by Barbara Tanis Fetzer documenting her last year at the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing, 1941-1942.

Personal papers of Barbara Wharton Low, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons was known for her expertise in X-ray crystallography. Includes correspondence, drafts of papers and lectures, reprints of scientific articles, laboratory notebooks, and photographs spanning her career.

Financial accounts of Benjamin Howe, physician of Whitefield, Maine.

Correspondence, alumni lists, invitations, programs, and other printed material documenting reunions and other alumni activities compiled into bound volumes by Henry Pelouze de Forest, 1890 class secretary for the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.

Ledger and casebook of an unknown dentist practicing in Peru, Illinois, 1854-1856.

Personal papers of U.S. physician, Dickinson W. Richards (1895-1973), alumnus (M.A. 1922; M.D. 1923) and faculty member (1925-1973) of Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons. Richards served as Intern (1924) and Resident (1925-1927) at Presbyterian Hospital, with later positions there (1928-1961) and at Bellevue Hospital (1933-1961), and consulted for Merck & Co. Richards received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1956, along with André Cournand and Werner Forssmann for their work relating to heart catheterization.

Nine watercolors of human anatomy depicting limbs afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis by artist Edward Dowdall.

Record of doctors' prescriptions filled by Ewen McIntyre & Son, pharmacists, who at this period were located at 992 Sixth Avenue, New York City.

Letters, documents, and bookplates largely relating to gifts pediatrician Francis Huber made to various institutions.

Two letters from De Schweinitz to John M. Wheeler, Director of the Harkness Eye Institute at the Columbia - Presbyterian Medical Center and professor of ophthalmology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Five lectures on shell shock delivered by neurologist Henry R. Humphries.

Speeches, lectures, and correspondence of public health official Herman Hilleboe, as well as a transcript of an oral history interview with him.

Physician James M. Evans account book from practice in Salem, Iowa

Records of patients seen by neurologists James Ramsay Hunt, approximately 4,219 cases dating from 1903 to 1937.

Correspondence and research materials relating to physician Julius Kaunitz's research that linked endemic ergotism and thromboangiitis obliterans ("Buerger's Disease").

Records of about 200 pediatric cases seen by pediatritian L. Emmett Holt, 1901-1923, largely in New York City and its surrounding suburbs, although with a few out-of-town cases.

Personal papers of Leonard Coleman Harbor, professor of dermatology at New York University and Columbia University, and served as chair of the Department of Dermatology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.

Material created and collected by Michael Merson, documenting his leadership at the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS (GPA). The bulk consists of copies of WHO correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, speeches, press releases, publications and other printed material, in addition to interview transcripts and sound recordings conducted by Merson for the use in book, The AIDS pandemic: searching for a global response (2018), co-authored with Stephen Inrig.

Minutes of the “Scientific Meetings of German Physicians” of the German Hospital and Dispensary of New York.

Diaries, reprints of scientific articles, photographs, genealogical material, certificates, and awards. The bulk of the papers consists of the diaries physician and public health official Norman Jolliffe kept intermittently from 1935 to a few months before his death.

Photograph album "The Way We Were, 1943-1946," documenting Patricia Hayes Keough's nursing education at the Bryn Mawr College Summer School of Nursing and the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing (later the Columbia University School of Nursing).

Student notebooks of Patricia Jones (BS, Nursing, 1960) who attended the Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University School of Nursing (currently the Columbia University School of Nursing), 1957-1960.

Register kept by Assistant Surgeon George B. McKnight, U.S.N. (died 1857) aboard the U.S. Schooner Experiment.

Notebook of neurological cases seen by neurologist and psychiatrist Smith Ely Jelliffe at New York's City Hospital, located on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island), 1906-1907.

Papers of Virginia Shattuck King (Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University School of Nursing, 1944) including photographs, programs, scrapbook pages, and an autobiography.

Meeting minutes, correspondence (1947-1974) and one newsletter (2005) created by the William Jarvie Society, a student organization in the School of Dental and Oral Surgery--later known as the College of Dental Medicine.