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PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CENTER
PORTLAND, OREGON

Photograph Collection Inventory
c. 1941-1997

Overview
Series A: Facilities
Series B: Personnel
Series C: Departments
Series D: School of Nursing
Series E: Subjects
Series F: "Voice" Photographs
Series G: Postcards
Series H: Albums
Series I: Slides
Series J: Transparencies

Overview of Records

Repository: Providence Archives, Seattle, WA

Date: c. 1941-97

Abstract: Photographs document the facilities, personnel, and activities of Providence Portland Medical Center and its staff.

Quantity:  5 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 or number of cited item].  (161) Providence Portland Medical Center 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: A typed inventory was created and the collection re-housed in August 2002 by Peter Schmid. Collection was processed August 2007 by Peter Schmid.

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Series A: Facilities

A1 Building 1 (1941-)

Dates: 1942-43; 1949; 1959; 1964; 1966-67; 1970; 1973; 1977; 1979; 1981-82; 1984; n.d.

A2 Aerial Views

Dates: 1941; 1974; 1980-82; n.d.

A3 Architectural Drawings & Models

Dates: 1978; n.d.

A4 Professional Plaza

Dates: 1982; n.d.

A5 Parking Lots

Dates: n.d.

A6 Interiors

Dates: 1981; n.d.

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Series B: Personnel

B1 Administrator: Sr. Ruth Marie Dohman (1956-59)

Dates: n.d.

B2 Administrator: Sr. Ernestine Marie Reisenauer (1959-65)

Dates: 1959; 1961; 1963; 1965-66; n.d.

B3 Administrator: Sr. Therese Yvette Bilodeau (1965-69)

Dates: 1965; 1971; n.d.

B4 Administrator: William G. Conley (1969-78)

Dates: 1973-76; 1978; 1986; n.d.

B5 Administrator: John Lee (1979-?)

Dates: 1974; 1979-82; n.d.

B6 Advisory Board

Dates: 1975-77; 1979; 1981; 1983; 1985; n.d.

B7 Clergy

Dates: 1962; 1971; 1983; 1987; n.d.

B8 Lay Employees

Dates: 1943; 1963-65; 1982; n.d.

B9 Medical Staff

Dates: 1961-69; 1971-79; 1980; 1983-84; n.d.

B10 Medical Staff—Residents

Dates: 1953-55; n.d.

B11 Sisters

Dates: 1941-42; 1946; 1949; 1954; 1956-57; 1959-63; 1965; 1968; 1971-72; 1974-77; 1980-81; 1986-87; 1998; n.d.

B12 Sisters—Oregon Corporation

Dates: 1972; 1974; n.d.

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Series C: Departments

C1 Addictions Services

Dates: 1987; n.d.

C2 Admissions

Dates: n.d.

C3 Alcohol Treatment Program

Dates: 1982

C4 Ambulatory Services Center

Dates: 1979; n.d.

C5 Auxiliary & Guilds

Dates: 1960; 1962-64; 1975-77; 1980-82; n.d.

C6 Beauty Shop

Dates: n.d.

C7 Breast Care Center

Dates: 1986; n.d.

C8 Business Office

Dates: 1977

C9 Cafeteria

Dates: 1979

C10 Cancer Center

Dates: 1986; n.d.

C11 Cardiac Center

Dates: 1974-75; 1983; n.d.

C12 Cardiovascular Lab

Dates: n.d.

C13 Chapel

Dates: 1946; 1963; 1982-83; n.d.

See also Subjects series, E19 - E25.

C14 Clinical Pastoral Care

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

C15 [vacant]

C16 Computed Tomography (CT) Scanner

Dates: 1977; 1979; n.d.

C17 Coronary Care Unit

Dates: 1982; n.d.

C18 Critical Care Unit

Dates: 1978; n.d.

C19 Data Processing

Dates: 1975; n.d.

C20 Dietary

Dates: n.d.

C21 Digital Angiography

Dates: 1981

C22 Earle A. Chiles Research Center

Dates: n.d.

C23 Educational Services

Dates: 1978; 1982; n.d.

C24 Electroencephalography

Dates: n.d.

C25 Emergency

Dates: 1961; 1975; 1979; 1983; 1986; n.d.

C26 Emilie Gamelin Institute

Dates: 1988

C27 Engineering Services

Dates: 1980-81; n.d.

C28 Gift Shop

Dates: 1959

C29 Home Health

Dates: 1980; n.d.

C30 Heart Center

Dates: 1986-87; n.d.

C31 Hospice

Dates: 1980-82

C32 Housekeeping

Dates: 1981; n.d.

C32a Hyperbaric Medicine

Dates: 1978

C33 Information Services

Dates: 1978; 1984; n.d.

C34 Intensive Care

Dates: 1974-75; 1978-79; 1981-82; n.d.

C35 Kidney Dialysis

Dates: 1979; n.d.

C36 Laboratories

Dates: 1975-76; 1978-81; 1986; n.d.

C37 Lifeline

Dates: n.d.

C38 Linen Service

Dates: 1975; n.d.

C39 Materials Management

Dates: 1979

C40 Maternity

Dates: 1983; 1987; n.d.

C41 Medical Foundation

Dates: 1982; n.d.

C42 Medical Library

Dates: 1984; n.d.

C43 Medical Records

  Dates: n.d.

C44 Mental Health Services

Dates: 1974-78; n.d.

C45 Nursing Services

Dates: 1971; 1975-78; 1981; 1987; n.d.

C46 Occupational Therapy

Dates: 1976; 1982; n.d.

C47 Oncology

Dates: 1975; 1979; 1982-83; n.d.

C48 Orthopedics

Dates: 1975; n.d.

C49 Pastoral Care

Dates: n.d.

C50 Pathology

Dates: n.d.

C51 Patients

Dates: 1959; 1962-64; 1970; 1974-76; 1978; 1980-82; 1984; 1986; n.d.

C51a Patients – Special

Dates: 1962; 1975-78; n.d.

C52 Pediatrics

Dates: 1947; 1952-53; 1955; 1963; 1965-67; 1970-71; 1975; 1978; 1982; n.d.

C53 Pharmacy

Dates: 1978; 1984; n.d.

C54 Physical Therapy

Dates: 1981; 1986; n.d.

C55 Planning

Dates: 1975-76; 1981

C56 Printing Shop

Dates: n.d.

C57 Radiation Therapy

Dates: 1979; n.d.

C58 Radiology

Dates: 1975; 1977; 1979; 1981; n.d.

C59 Recovery Room

Dates: 1961

C60 Rehabilitative Services

Dates: 1975; 1977-78; 1980; 1982; n.d.

C61 Research

Dates: 1964; 1978; 1982; 1984; 1986

C62 Respiratory Therapy

Dates: 1975; 1977; 1979; 1981-82; n.d.

C63 Security

Dates: 1976-77; n.d.

C64 Skilled Nursing

Dates: 1974

C65 Surgery

Dates: 1959; 1961; 1963; 1974-76; 1979; 1980-82; 1986-87; n.d.

C66 Switchboard

Dates: n.d.

C67 Therapeutic Recreation

Dates: 1977; 1979-80

C68 Volunteer Services

Dates: 1976-78; 1982-83; n.d.

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Series D: School of Nursing

D1 Building

Dates: 1944; 1948; 1959; 1964; n.d.

D2 Students

Dates: 1950; n.d.

D3 Alumni

Dates: 1961-62; 1965; 1977; 1979; n.d.

D4 Teas

Dates: 1962

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Series E: Subjects

E1 Accommodations - On-Campus

Dates: 1983

E2 Accreditation Luncheon

Dates: 1963

E3 Annual Report Photographs

Dates: 1971

E4 Apartments

Dates: n.d.

E5 Architectural Model

Dates: 1966

E6 Arts & Crafts Fair

Dates: 1981

E7 Autologues

Dates: 1981

E8 Bergquist-Reed Memorial Lecture

Dates: 1977-80; 1984

E9 Beta-Blocker Heart Attack Trial

Dates: 1981

E10 Bicentennial (1976)

E11 Blood Bank

Dates: 1972-73; 76; n.d.

E12 Basketball Team

Dates: 1976

E13 Budget Committee

Dates: 1977; n.d.

E14 Business Education Day

Dates: 1963

E15 Capital Campaign

Dates: 1978

E16 Cathy Cheney Photographs

Dates: n.d.

E17 “Celebrating Our Employees…The Spirit Lives On,”

Dates: 1989

E18 Central Catholic High School (Portland)

Dates: 1961; n.d.

E19 Chapel—Bid Opening

Dates: 1962

E20 Chapel—Construction

Dates: 1963

E21 Chapel—Demolition

Dates: 1964

E22 Chapel—Interior

Dates: 1964

E23 Chapel—Sisters’ Visit

Dates: 1964

E24 Chapel—Dedication (1964)

E25 Chapel—Dedication (1988)

E26 Christmas

Dates: 1959; 1966

E27 Christmas Parties

Dates: 1956; 1959; 1961-62; 1975-77; 1980; n.d.

E28 Congested Areas

Dates: 1961

E29 Construction—1960s

E30 Construction—1970s

E31 Construction—Ambulatory Services Building

Dates: 1977-78

E32 Construction—Bids

Dates: 1962; 1965

E33 Construction—Contracts

Dates: 1963; 1965

E34 Construction—Contractor’s Luncheon

Dates: 1965

E35 Construction – Parking Structures

Dates: 1976-77; 1980; n.d.

E36 Construction – Patient Addition

Dates: n.d.

E37 Cornerstone (1966)

E38 Cornerstone Opening (1978)

E39 Cost Finding Workshops

Dates: 1960; 1962; 1964-65

E40 Counseling

Dates: n.d.

E41 Dedication—Ambulatory Services Building (1979)

Includes Fun Run and other activities.

E42 Dedication—EEG Lab (1971)

E43 Dedication—Parking Structure (1977)

E44 Dedication—Professional Plaza (1982)

E45 Dedication—Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center (1999)

E46 Disaster Drills

Dates: 1976; n.d.

E47 Earthquake (1962)

E48 Emilie Gamelin—Cause for Beatification (1981)

E49 Employee Activities Committee

Dates: 1981

E50 Employee Picnic

Dates: 1962; 1964; 1973; 1980-81; 1986; n.d.

E51 Employee Service Awards

Dates: 1961-64; 1975-79; 1982; n.d.

E52 Exhibits

Dates: 1998

E53 Expansion – Press Conference (1961)

E54 Festival of the Trees

Dates: 1983-84; 1986-89; 1994; n.d.

E55 Fiftieth Anniversary (1991)

Includes copy prints of historic images used in an exhibit.

E56 Fitness Program

Dates: 1981

E57 Fun Run

Dates: 1981; 1987

E58 General Practice Seminar

Dates: n.d.

E59 Grisham Family, Inc.

Dates: 1978

E60 Groundbreaking—Ambulatory Services Building (1977)

E61 Groundbreaking—Professional Plaza (1980)

E62 Groundbreaking—Unidentified (n.d.)

E63 Health Fairs

Dates: 1979; 1987; n.d.

E64 Hoodland Community Clinic

Dates: 1979; n.d.

E65 Hospital Administrators Meeting

Dates: 1967; n.d.

E66 Industrial Health Seminar

Dates: 1982

E67 Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals

Dates: 1961-63; 1976

E68 Life Flight

Dates: 1982; 1987; n.d.

E69 Medical Staff Banquets & Picnics

Dates: 1953; 1970; 1972-73

E70 Medicare Information & Assistance Seminar

Dates: 1979

E71 Memorial Masses

Dates: 1975-77; 1979

E72 Mission Week

Dates: 1997

E73 Mother Joseph Statue

Dates: 1982

E74 National Hospital Week

Dates: 1960

E75 Nurse Appreciation Day

Dates: 1981

E76 Opera

Dates: 1975

E77 Oregon State Centennial (1959)

E78 Pension Plan

Dates: 1963

E79 Physicians’ Wives Club

Dates: 1976-77

E80 Plane Crash

Dates: 1978

E81 Portland, Oregon

Dates: 1965; n.d.

E82 Press Conferences

Dates: 1978; 1982; 1987; n.d.

E83 Product Fair

Dates: 1970

E84 Professional Standards Review Organization

Dates: 1974-75

E85 Providence Milwaukie Gift

Dates: 1986

E86 Providence Stage Band

Dates: 1961

E87 Robin’s Nest

Dates: 1963

E88 Seminar on Aging

Dates: 1976

E89 Softball Team

Dates: 1980

E90 Starlight Run

Dates: n.d.

E91 Storm (1962)

E92 Swine Flu Clinic

Dates: 1976

E93 Silver Jubilee (1966)

E94 “Take a Bow"

Dates: 1976; 1978; 1980; n.d.

E95 Talks Health

Dates: 1987

E96 Telecommunications System (MEDPRO)

Dates: 1979

E97 Tours

Dates: 1976

E98 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary (1966)

E99 United Way

Dates: 1976-77

E100 Variety Show

Dates: n.d.

E101 Visiting Nurse Association

Dates: 1975; 1977

E102 Visitors—Special

Dates: 1976-77; 1981

E103 Women’s Advisory Council

Dates: n.d.

E104 Women’s Health Festival

Dates: 1987

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Series F: Voice Photographs

(Proof sheets from the "Voice," newsletter for PPMC, 1969-75.  Index available at beginning of series is reproduced below.)

 1969  1970  1971  1972  1973  1974  1975

 

 

 1969  January  Food Service
 1969  February-March  Nuclear Medicine
 1969  April  Medical Records
 1969  May  Urology
 1969  June  Child Center
 1969  July  IV
 1969  August  Medical Education
 1969  September  The Night - Various Departments
 1969  October  Extended Care - Therapeutic Recreation
 1969  November  Personnel - Service Awards
 1969  December  Purchasing
 1970  January  Volunteer Services
 1970  February  Involvements of the Medical Staff
 1970  March/April  The Pharmacy
 1970  May  Orthopedics
 1970  June  Inhalation Therapy
 1970  July  E.E.G.
 1970  August  Emergency
 1970  September  Intensive Care
 1970  October  Clinical Training
 1970  November  Blood
 1970  December  Personnel - Service Awards
 1971  January  Accounting
 1971  February  Nursing Services
 1971  March  Sisters
 1971  April  Library
 1971  May-June  Surgery
 1971  July  Recovery Room
 1971  August  Gastrointestinal Surgery
 1971  September  Health as a Human Problem
 1971  October  30th Anniversary
 1971  November  Emphysema
 1971  December  Season's Greetings - Staff Photos
 1972  Annual Report  "For a Healthier Tomorrow"
 1972  January  Family Practice
 1972  February  Science Against Infection
 1972  March-April  Data Processing
 1972  May  Laboratories
 1972  June  Rehabilitative Services
 1972  July  The Hospital Patient
 1972  August  The Patient is a Woman
 1972  September  The Artificial Knee
 1972  October  Generalate Visitation
 1972  November  Personnel - Service Awards
 1972  December  Radiation Therapy
 1973  January-February  I.C.U.
 1973  March  Outpatient
 1973  April  Pastoral Care
 1973  May  Obesity
 1973  June  Central Services
 1973  July-August   Picnic Time at Providence
 1973  September  Eyes
 1973  October  Personnel - Awards Ceremony
 1973  November  Viability of Medical Education
 1973  December  (no central theme)
 1974  January  Lay Advisory Board
 1974  February  Plans Reviewed
 1974  March  Mental Health
 1974  April-May  Spring, the Season of Hope
 1974  June  Medicare
 1974  July  Training
 1974  August  Parking
 1974  September  Smoking
 1974  October  Personnel - Service Awards
 1974  November  Medical Convention
 1974  December  (no central theme)
 1975  January  Medical Center
 1975  February  Emergency Services
 1975  March-April  (no central theme)
 1975  May  Medical Technicians
 1975  June  Physician Support Occupations
 1975  July  Stomal Care
 1975  August  Radiology
 1975  September  Cardiac Center
 1975  October  Personnel - Service Awards
 1975  November  Radioimmunoassay
 1975  December  PRSO
   

 


 

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Series G: Postcards

G1 Building (1941-  )

G2 Chapel

G3 Interdenominational Meditation Chapel

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Series H: Albums

H1 Construction, etc.

Photos by Sr. Theresa Kissel while a patient there.

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Series I: Slides

I1 Building

Dates: 1960; 1981

I2 Gardens & Grounds

Dates: n.d.

I3 Sisters

Dates: 1960; n.d.

I4 Pediatrics

Dates: 1960

I5 School of Nursing

Dates: n.d.

I6 Medical Staff

Dates: n.d.

I7 Community Health Forum on Breast Cancer

Dates: 1984

I8 Groundbreaking—Surgery Tower (1984)

I9 Breast Care Center

Dates: n.d.

I10 Research

Dates: 1984

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Series J: Transparencies

J1 Facilities

Dates: n.d.

J2 Chapel

Dates: 1963; 1983; n.d.

J3 Emergency

Dates: 1983

J4 Surgery

Dates: n.d.

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Providence Archives, Seattle, Washington
Last revised May 15, 2008
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