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| Title: | Chicago Heart Association. Records |
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| Dates: | 1918-1950 |
| Manuscript Number: | Crerar Ms 43 |
| Size: | 3 linear feet (6 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | The Chicago Heart Association Records comprise three linear feet of files containing mainly off-prints, typescripts and pamphlets collected by the Association for distribution to the public. Some correspondence is also included. The material essentially deals with the topics of heart disease, convalescence, rheumatic fever, and vivisection. Also contains administrative correspondence of Gertrude Howe Britton, founding member and first Executive Director of the Asociation, to various individuals and organizations; and correspondence of Ruth Pierce McEldowney, Britton's successor. Correspondents include Alice Mary Dickerson, Katherine Hufangel, A.C. Ivy, Alexander Ropchan, and others. |
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The Chicago Heart Association was founded by James B. Herrick, M.D., who served as its first president. Originally known as the Chicago Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, the association held its first formal meeting on April 7, 1922, after preliminary organizational work that had begun in 1921. Modeled on the New York Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, it had a three-fold objective: the education of doctors and the general public; the coordination of community organizations dealing with heart disease; and the promotion of research on heart disease, especially as it relates to public health.
The organization held its first annual meeting in 1924, and in 1925 changed its name to the Chicago Heart Association. It played an active role in the American Heart Association and also sponsored the reorganization of the formerly dissolved Illinois Heart Association in 1944.
The collection is divided into two series.
Series 1: General Files, is comprised of off-prints and other publicly disseminated material as well as administrative correspondence, primarily that of Gertrude Howe Britton, a founding member of the Chicago Heart Association and its first executive director, and Ruth Pierce McEldowney, Britton's successor in 1937. The original organizational scheme of the files has been retained along with the individual file names.
The Chicago Heart Association's early concentration on heart disease, rheumatic fever, convalescent care, the place of the cardiac patient in industry, and actual job placement of patients is represented by internally-produced documents as well as publications of other organizations, such as the Metropolitan Life Company. Some of the materials, therefore, predate the Association's founding in 1922. Also included in this series are off-prints, typescripts, and correspondence concerning the negative implications for heart research in which the proposed outlawing of vivisection by city ordinance would result).
The second series includes material not fully incorporated into the Association's files, though it deals with essentially the same topics as the general files. These manuscripts have been organized alphabetically by author.
Series 1: General Files |
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Cardiac clinics. Loose-leaf folder containing directory to clinics in Chicago and convalescent homes and summer camps in the Chicago area |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Chicago Heart Association: Dentistry. Typescript information on dental clinics serving cardiac and tuberculosis patients; newsletter |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | Chicago Heart Association: Occupations for cardiacs. Three typescript copies of 1936 report |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | Convalescence, Chicago. Folder, offprints, directory |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | Convalescence, Children. Offprints |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | Convalescence, Committee for Jewish Convalescent Service,
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| Box 1 Folder 7 | Convalescence, Directories. Four directories of homes in U.S. |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | Convalescence, General. Offprints |
| Box 1 Folder 9 | Convalescence, La Loma Feliz. Flyer |
| Box 1 Folder 10 | Convalescence, National Children's Cardiac Home. Flyer and correspondence
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| Box 1 Folder 11 | Convalescence, Presbyterian Home. "Rules of Administration" and correspondence
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| Box 1 Folder 12 | Convalescence, Rest Haven, Chicago. Form for social history correspondence
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| Box 1 Folder 13 | Convalescence, Ridge Farm Preventorium. Miscellaneous documents and correspondence
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| Box 1 Folder 14 | Convalescence, Rheumatic fever. Offprints |
| Box 1 Folder 15 | Convalescence, St. Francis Hospital. Pamphlet |
| Box 1 Folder 16 | Convalescence, St. Francis Sanitorium. Offprints and brochures |
| Box 1 Folder 17 | Convalescence, Standards. Offprints, proposals for standards |
| Box 1 Folder 18 | Convalescent homes: Reports |
| Box 1 Folder 19 | Heart Disease, Bibliographies. Offprints and correspondence
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| Box 1 Folder 20 | Heart Disease, Cardiac clinics -- General. Offprints, clinic record forms |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | Heart Disease, Cardiac clinics -- General, Chicago. Directories, offprints, typescript copy of paper by Herrick and W. Hamburger |
| Box 2 Folder 2 | Heart Disease, Clinics -- AHA forms. Offprints and clinic forms |
| Box 2 Folder 3 | Heart Disease, Commercial appliances. Brochures |
| Box 2 Folder 4 | Heart Disease, Dental. Offprints |
| Box 2 Folder 5 | Heart Disease, Diet. Offprint and typescript paper |
| Box 2 Folder 6 | Heart Disease, Exercises. Offprints, typescript recommendations |
| Box 2 Folder 7 | Heart Disease, Geriatrics. Offprints |
| Box 2 Folder 8 | Heart Disease, Illustrations. Charts, offprints, posters |
| Box 2 Folder 9 | Heart Disease, Lay -- Children. Offprints |
| Box 2 Folder 10 | Heart Disease, Lay -- General. Offprints and flyers |
| Box 2 Folder 11 | Heart Disease, Lay -- Popular literature. Offprints and flyers |
| Box 2 Folder 12 | Heart Disease, Lecture material. Offprints |
| Box 2 Folder 13 | Heart Disease, Occupations and employment. Newsclippings, offprints |
| Box 2 Folder 14 | Heart Disease, Occupations and employment. Offprints and studies |
| Box 2 Folder 15 | Heart Disease, Prevention. Offprints and typescript testimony |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | Heart Disease, Professional, Angina Pectoris. Offprints |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | Heart Disease, Professional, Blood pressure. Offprints and correspondence
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| Box 3 Folder 3 | Heart Disease, Professional, Children. Offprints, flyer |
| Box 3 Folder 4 | Heart Disease, Professional, Classification. Offprints, pamphlets, typescripts |
| Box 3 Folder 5 | Heart Disease, Professional, Coronary. Typescript, offprints |
| Box 3 Folder 6 | Heart Disease, Professional, Cortisone. Offprint |
| Box 3 Folder 7 | Heart Disease, Professional, E.K.G. Offprints |
| Box 3 Folder 8 | Heart Disease, Professional, General. Offprints |
| Box 3 Folder 9 | Heart Disease, Professional, General. Brochure, symposium proceedings, correspondence
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| Box 3 Folder 10 | Heart Disease, Professional, Marriage and pregnancy. Newsclipping, offprints |
| Box 3 Folder 11 | Heart Disease, Professional, Peripheral vascular. Offprint |
| Box 3 Folder 12 | Heart Disease, Professional, Rheumatic fever. Offprints, brochure |
| Box 3 Folder 13 | Heart Disease, Professional, Rheumatic fever-chorea. Offprints |
| Box 3 Folder 14 | Heart Disease, Professional, Rheumatic fever, diagnosis. Offprints, brochure, Labor Department typescript |
| Box 3 Folder 15 | Heart Disease, Professional, Rheumatic fever-etiology. Offprints |
| Box 3 Folder 16 | Heart Disease, Professional, Rheumatic fever-public health. Offprints, pamphlets |
| Box 4 Folder 1 | Heart Disease, Professional, Rheumatic fever-studies. Offprints |
| Box 4 Folder 2 | Heart Disease, Professional, Surgery. Offprints |
| Box 4 Folder 3 | Heart Disease, Public health problem. Offprints |
| Box 4 Folder 4 | Heart Disease, Social Aspects. Patient reports |
| Box 4 Folder 5 | Heart Disease, Social aspects, continued. Offprints, typescript paper |
| Box 4 Folder 6-7 | Heart Disease, Statistics. Offprints |
| Box 4 Folder 8 | Heart Disease, Symposiums. Offprints |
| Box 4 Folder 9 | Heart Disease, Vocational guidance. Offprints, typescripts |
| Box 4 Folder 10 | Heart Disease, USES Service. Offprint, Labor Department typescript |
| Box 4 Folder 11 | Lists of educational material -- Professional. Lists, form to request information |
| Box 4 Folder 12 | Lists of educational material -- Lay. Offprint, lists, autograph notes |
| Box 4 Folder 13 | Rheumatic fever, Childrens' bureau. Pamphlets, offprints, slide list |
| Box 4 Folder 14 | Rheumatic fever, Community. Offprints, newsclippings |
| Box 4 Folder 15 | Rheumatic fever, Lay instructions for parents. Typescripts, offprints |
| Box 4 Folder 16 | Rheumatic fever, Lay pamphlets. Offprints, pamphlets |
| Box 4 Folder 17 | Rheumatic fever, Nursing. Offprints and flyer |
| Box 4 Folder 18 | Rheumatic fever, Lecture material. Offprints, typescript address |
| Box 5 Folder 1 | Rheumatic fever, Paul Dudley White, M.D.: Articles. Offprints |
| Box 5 Folder 2 | Vivisection, Offprints, postcard, typescripts and correspondence
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Series II: Typescripts and Offprints |
| Box 5 Folder 3 | Allen--Coburn |
| Box 5 Folder 4 | Chicago Medical Society--Dodge |
| Box 5 Folder 5 | Dublin-Eggleston |
| Box 5 Folder 6 | Herrick, James B. |
| Box 5 Folder 7 | Herrick, James B. |
| Box 5 Folder 8 | Herrick, James B. |
| Box 6 Folder 1 | Herrick, James B. |
| Box 6 Folder 2 | Huck-Leven |
| Box 6 Folder 3 | Levy-Maynard |
| Box 6 Folder 4 | Metropolitan Life-Ralli |
| Box 6 Folder 5 | Rathe-Rutstein |
| Box 6 Folder 6 | Saint Francis--Scupham |
| Box 6 Folder 7 | Special Committee--Swift |
| Box 6 Folder 8 | War Manpower Commission--Wright |