Lydia Anderson, RN Papers

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Identifier: US-NNCORMA-RGPPM-013

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Scope and Contents

This small collection only provides a glimpse of Lydia Anderson's life. The biographies, correspondence, and scrapbook all indicate the great love and respect her colleagues, friends, students had for her. There is some business correspondence regarding speech invitations and her participation in nursing professional organizations. One organization was the History of Nursing Society of New York shows her interest in educating students about nursing history. There is little else here that reflects her career in nursing education.

Dates

1838 - 1941

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Materials from this collection cannot be reproduced outside the guidelines of United States Fair Use (17 U.S.C., Section 107) without the advance permission of the Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine or the copyright holder. In the event that anything from the collection become a source for publication, a credit line indicating the Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine is required.

Historical records in the Medical Center Archives are protected by HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) and internal policies which require protection and confidential handling of all protected health information (PHI). Materials containing PHI, personally identifiable information (PII), and/or student information (protected under FERPA) have been restricted and require additional permissions prior to reproduction and use.

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Biographical / Historical

Lydia Anderson was born in New York City on January 16, 1863. Her father, Thomas Anderson, was the minister of First Baptist Church in New York City. She earned a B.A. degree from Rutgers Female College in 1895, a nurse’s degree from New York Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1897, and a P.G. degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1909. She was the superintendent of nurses at Homeopathic Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, 1897 and Associate Superintendent of nurses at Sloane Hospital, 1897-1902, Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, 1903-1904, and Mt. Sinai Hospital, 1903-1908. She was a visiting professor at thirty-two nursing schools between 1909-1936. She was on the faculty of New York Hospital Training School for Nurses where she was an visiting instructor, 1909-1932, instructor of history of nursing, 1932-1936, and guest instructor of history of nursing, 1936-1939.

Anderson was well regarded by her colleagues and students. She was dedicated to the field of nursing education. She was appointed to the New York State Board of Nurse Examiners in 1910 and served for seventeen years. Due to her interest in developing a library at New York Hospital School of Nursing, the library was named in her honor the Lydia E. Anderson Library.

She died on April 11, 1939 in Brooklyn, NY.

Extent

1.42 Linear Feet (2 Boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The archives does not have any record of who donated these papers.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Elizabeth Shepard in 2009. The finding aid was written by Elizabeth Shepard in 2009. Minor modifications to the finding aid were made during migration to ArchivesSpace in 2024.