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Photograph Collections

 

PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

Photograph Collection Inventory
1880s-1990s

Overview of Records
Administrative Information
Series A: Facilities
Series B: Personnel
Series C: Departments
Series D: College of Nursing
Series E: Subjects
Series F: Albums
Series G: Slides
Series H: Oversize
Series I: Transparencies
Series J: Postcards

Overview of Records

Repository: Providence Archives, Seattle, WA

Date: 1880s-1990s

Abstract: Photographs document the facilities, personnel, departments, and activities of Providence Hospital and its staff.

Quantity: 11 linear feet

Administrative Information

Restrictions: Providence Archives is a private repository; access to some records is at the discretion of the archivist.

Preferred Citation: [Description of number of cited item].  (101) Providence Hospital (Oakland) Photograph Collection, Providence Archives, Seattle, Washington.

Accession Information: These photographs were transferred to the Archives from the hospital and from sisters who worked there over a period of years.

Processing Information: Photographs were added over the years by Archives staff.  A typed inventory was created and the collection re-housed in June 2002 by Peter Schmid. The collection was processed in September 2003 by Peter Schmid.

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Series A: Facilities

A1 Building 1 (1904-26)

Dates: 1915; 1917; n.d.

A2 Building 2 (1926-79)

Dates: 1931; 1938; 1955; 1961; 1963-64; 1967; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999.

A3 Building 3 (1979-92)

Dates: 1976-77; 1979; 1981; 1984; n.d.

A4 Crosby Building

Dates: 1967; 1976; n.d.

A5 Medical Office Building

Dates: n.d.

A6 Convent

Dates: n.d.

A7 Plat Maps

Dates: 1919; 1927

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Series B: Personnel


B1 Administrators: Charles Raymond

Dates: 1959; n.d.

B2 Administrators: Sister Frances Ignatius (1965-71)

Dates: 1967-69; 1971; n.d.

B3 Administrators: Stanley Volga (1971-76)

Dates: 1974; n.d.

B4 Administrators: Peter Bigelow (1976-79)

Dates: n.d.

B5 Administrators: Stewart Tittle (1979-83)

Dates: 1981-83; n.d.

B6 Administrators: Sister Dona Taylor (1983-88)

Dates: n.d.

B7 Advisory Board

Dates: 1979; n.d.

B8 Clergy

Dates: 1911; 1919; 1939; 1941; 1960; 1971; 1978; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999. See also Slides series.

B9 Lay Employees

Dates: 1957; 1959; 1962; 1981; n.d.

See also Slides series.

B10 Medical Staff

Dates: 1958; 1964-65; 1983; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999.

B11 Sisters

Dates: 1903; 1926; 1939; 1951; 1956; 1958-60; 1962-63; 1965; 1967; 1969; 1975; 1978-79; 1986; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” by SRB, 1999. See also Slides series.

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Series C: Departments

C1 Adult Day Care Center

Dates: n.d.

C2 Ambulatory Treatment Center

Dates: n.d.

C3 Auxiliary

Dates: 1958; 1960-62; 1981-82; 1985; n.d.

See also Gift Shop and Volunteers. Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999.

C4 Blood Bank

Dates: 1981; n.d.

C5 Central Processing & Distribution

Dates: n.d.

C6 Central Transcription Service

Dates: n.d.

C7 Chapel

Dates: 1931; 1938; 1951; 1953; 1960; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999. See also Oversize series.

C8 Clinical Pastoral Education

Dates: 1980-81; 1985; 1987; n.d.

C9 Coronary Care

Dates: n.d.

C10 Diagnostic Imaging

Dates: n.d.

C11 Dietary

Dates: 1943; 1981; 1983; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999.

C12 EEG

Dates: n.d.

C13 Echocardiography

Dates: n.d.

C14 Emergency

Dates: 1970; 1976; 1982-83; 1985; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999.

C15 Diabetes & Endocrine Institute

Dates: n.d.

C16 Finance

Dates: 1952; n.d.

C17 Foundation

Dates: 1975-76; 1982; n.d.

C18 Hemodialysis

Dates: n.d.

C19 Knights of Malta Clinic

Dates: n.d.

C20 Laboratory

Dates: 1982; 1985; n.d.

C21 Laundry

Dates: 1957; 1963; 1979; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999.

C22 Maternity

Dates: 1961; 1972; 1976; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999.

C23 Family Birthing Unit

Dates: 1986; 1989; n.d.

C24 Medical Records

Dates: 1973; n.d.

C25 Nuclear Medicine

Dates: 1978; n.d.

C26 Nursery

Dates: 1958; 1963; 1969; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999. See also Slides series.

C27 Nursing Services

Dates: 1974; 1977-78; 1983; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999.

C28 Orthopedics

Dates: 1991; n.d.

C29 Pastoral Care

Dates: 1969-70; 1979; 1985; n.d.

C30 Patients

Dates: 1980; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999. See also Slides series.

C31 Pharmacy

Dates: 1970; n.d.

C32 Physical Therapy

Dates: 1991; n.d.

C33 Plant Services

Dates: 1947-48; 1969; 1979; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999. See also Slides series.

C34 Pulmonary

Dates: n.d.

C35 Radiology

Dates: 1981; n.d.

C36 Recovery Room

Dates: 1963; n.d.

C37 Skilled Nursing

Dates: 1981; n.d.

C38 Surgery

Dates: 1981; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999. See also Slides series.

C39 Switchboard

Dates: 1971; n.d.

C40 Treadmill

Dates: n.d.

C41 Volunteers

Dates: 1958; 1981-82; 1985; n.d.

C42 Diathermy

Dates: n.d.

C43 Lifeline

Dates: 1981

C44 Optometry

Dates: 1969

C45 Security

Dates: n.d.

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Series D: College of Nursing

D1 Building

Dates: 1927; n.d.

Includes photograph removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999.

D2 Cornerstone

Dates: n.d.

D3 Demolition

Dates: 1976

D4 Swimming Pool

Dates: 1961-63

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in SRB, 1999.

D5 Directors

Dates: 1969; 1972; n.d.

D6 Students

Dates: 1933; 1972; n.d.

See also Oversize series.

D7 Graduates

Dates: 1910; 1927; 1931; 1933; 1939; 1947; 1963

Includes graduate awards, and photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999.

D8 Alumni/Reunions

Dates: 1949; 1972; 1983; n.d.

D9 History of Nursing Exhibit

Dates: 1948

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Series E: Subjects

E1 75th anniversary, 1977

E2 85th Anniversary, 1987

E3 Bishop Floyd Begin

Dates: 1962-63; n.d.

Includes photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999.

E4 Benefactors

Dates: 1912; 1916; 1974; 1991; n.d.

E5 California State Senate Commendation, 1971

E6 Christmas

Dates: 1959; 1972-73; 1975; 1981-82; n.d.

E7 Closing, 1991

E8 Committees

Dates: n.d.

E9 Construction, 1976

E10 Construction, 1975

E11 Construction, 1977

E12 Construction, 1978

E13 Cost-Finding Workshop

Dates: n.d.

E14 Disaster Drills

Dates: 1974; 1977

E15 Dedication of Hospital, 1979

See also Slides series.

E16 Dedication of Garage, 1981

E17 Dedication of Haller Room

E18 Dedication of Medical Office Building

E19 Dedication of Wilson Garden, 1991

E20 Health Fairs

Dates: 1985; 1989; n.d.

E21 Groundbreaking for New Hospital

Dates: 1976

E22 Groundbreaking for Medical Office Building

Dates: 1986

E23 Moving Day, 1979

E24 Mother Joseph Award

Dates: 1995; n.d.

E25 Mother Joseph Statue

Dates: n.d.

E26 Nurses' Strike

Dates: 1979

E27 Poster, 1940

E28 Rug (Last Supper)

Dates: 1982

E29 Sacred Heart Parish & School

Dates: n.d.

E30 St. Joseph Health Clinic

Dates: n.d.

E31 Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Visit

Dates: 1974

E32 Tennis Tournament

Dates: 1982; n.d.

E33 U.S. Army Use of Facilities

Dates: 1958

E34 Dedication of Convent

E35 Cornerstone Laying, 1926

E36 Cornerstone Laying, 1979

E37 Seth Richards Home

Dates: n.d.

See also Oversize series.

E38 Accreditation Visit, 1962

Photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” by in 1999.

E39 Vocation Day

Dates: 1963; n.d.

Photographs removed from “wallpaper scrapbook” in 1999.

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Series F: Albums

F1 Construction of Second Building, 1925-26

Album assembled by James Lindsay, superintendent of construction of the second building, documents construction from September 1925 to November 1926. The album, black with black pages, measures 5 3/4" x 8 1/4" x 2", and contains 101 black-and-white prints, 9 x 14.5 cm. Photographs also document the cornerstone ceremony, construction and dedication of the nurses' home, and some departments and equipment.

F2 School of Nursing

Dates: 1940s

Partial album consisting of 25 black-and-white photographs, 20.5 x 25.5 cm and smaller, which document students and activities of the school in the 1940s.

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Series G: Slides

G1 Facilities

G2 Administration

G3 Sisters

G4 Clergy

G5 Patients

G6 Nursery

G7 Plant Services

G8 Surgery

G9 Obstetrics

G10 Intensive Care

G11 Lay Employees

G12 Dedication of New Hospital, 1979

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Series H: Oversize

H1 Facilities

Dates: n.d.

H2 Chapel

H3 Students (School of Nursing)

H4 Seth Richards Home

H5 Graduates (School of Nursing)

Dates: 1908; 1930; n.d.

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Series I: Transparencies

I1 Accounting

Dates: n.d.

I2 Dietary

Dates: n.d.

I3 Laboratory

Dates: n.d.

I4 Patients

Dates: n.d.

I5 Surgery

Dates: n.d.

I6 Switchboard

Dates: n.d.

I7 College of Nursing

Dates: n.d.

I8 Chapel

Dates: n.d.

I9 Building

Dates: 1951; n.d.

I10 Business Office

Dates: n.d.

I11 Cafeteria

Dates: n.d.

I12 Central Supply

Dates: n.d.

I13 Conference Room

Dates: n.d.

I14 Doctors’ Room

Dates: n.d.

I15 Engineering Room

Dates: n.d.

I16 Carpentry Shop

Dates: n.d.

I17 Laboratory

Dates: n.d.

I18 Information

Dates: n.d.

I19 Lobby

Dates: n.d.

I20 Laundry

Dates: n.d.

I21 Pharmacy

Dates: n.d.

I22 Physiotherapy

Dates: n.d.

I23 Paper Boy

Dates: n.d.

I24 EKG

Dates: n.d.

I25 X-Ray

Dates: n.d.

I26 Pastoral Care

Dates: n.d.

I27 Printing Room

Dates: n.d.

I28 Record Room

Dates: n.d.

I29 Registration Desk

Dates: n.d.

I30 Superior’s Office

Dates: n.d.

I31 Time Clock

Dates: n.d.

I32 Second Floor

Dates: n.d.

I33 Third Floor

Dates: n.d.

I34 Fourth Floor

Dates: n.d.

I35 Fifth Floor

Dates: n.d.

I36 Delivery Room

Dates: n.d.

I37 Nursery

Dates: n.d.

I38 Nursing Services

Dates: n.d.

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Series J: Postcards

J1 Building 1 (1904-26)

J2 Building 2 (1926-    )

J3 Chapel

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Providence Archives, Seattle, Washington
Last revised June 23, 2008
For more information, contact us at archives@providence.org