RG07/RG07-SG001. Administrative

Scope and Contents This collection documents the establishment, administration, and activities of the Ladies’ Auxiliary to the Society of the Lying-In Hospital, an organization established in 1897 to support the Outpatient Department of the Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York. The collection provides insight into the development of social service departments in hospitals in the United States and records early efforts of social work in the country. As the Ladies’ Auxiliary was a New York...