Scope and Content The records of the Department of Development and Public Affairs span 1876 to 1998. The bulk of the records date from the mid-1940s to the 1990s. Department of Development records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, pamphlets and publications, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, and a donor's book, recording the names of individuals who underwrote various hospital ward expenses from 1925-1944. A significant portion of the records document the major campaigns of the hospital, as well...

Scope and Contents The collection is divided into two series. The first series consists of administrative records pertaining to various activities of the hospital and its departments and programs. These records, which include correspondence, memoranda, photographs, and newspaper clippings, were collected in Dr. Snedeker's role as Assistant to the General Director. Of particular interest are the records pertaining to polio, the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission, the National Foundation for Infantile...