The papers in this collection touch upon every aspect of The New York Hospital bicentennial celebration and cover some phases of it in considerable detail. The best overall view of planning for the festivities can be found in the minutes of the Bicentennial Committee, 1967-1971 and in the general correspondence files, 1963-1972. There is much in both the minutes and the correspondence not only about the actual planning but also about the kind of image the hospital wished to project and its aims and goals in celebrating its bicentennial in the way it did.

There is also considerable information on the colloquium, the Trinity Church observance, and the "America's Hospitals" postcard. There are folders on speeches given at various events, on publicity, and on publications relating to the bicentennial.

Non-Manuscript Material

Four plans for seating arrangements and tent set-up on the Rockefeller University "Esplanade" 1968 and 1969 have been transferred to the Map Case. A manila envelope of bicentennial buttons is also part of the collection and is located in the button folder.